Endangered Sand Cat Information

The subspecies Felis margarita scheffeli a sand cat that lives in Pakistan is listed as Endangered.

Endangered sand cat information. The Species Threat Abatement and Restoration STAR Metric. Due to a lack of sightings and well interest in the cat very little is known about the species. Sand cat is small animal that can reach 16 to 18 inches in length and 4 to 8 pounds in weight.

Sand cats are threatened by habitat loss hunting and collection for the pet trade. Some are killed by humans who consider them a threat to their livestock. Why are sand cats endangered.

The Sand Cat is endangered because of habitat loss. There are very few official records and studies of the sand cat. In 1994 the IUCN first listed the cat as insufficiently known.

Sightings of the Arabian sand cat are particularly rare despite the fact that the cats distribution spreads across the entirety of North Africa and the Arabian peninsula and well into Central Asia. The sand cat is the only wild cat that is not threatened with loss of habitat since it is found in the desert. How are sand cats being protected.

The other incorrect item is that the sand cat is the only wild cat species that lives in the desert. Sand cats are being protected and conserved by prohibiting theirhunting in. The sand cat Felis margarita is a small wild cat in the Felinae subfamily.

This is the most positive classification under the Red List scheme. The species went extinct in Israel due to habitat destruction following the territorial exchange between Israel and Jordan in 1994 but a litter of four sand cat kittens was recently born at the Zoological Center of Tel Aviv. The classification has improved.