[edit] Conservation Status
Due to significant habitat loss in Borneo, the Bay Cat has been only recently reclassified as endangered by the IUCN in 2005, after being classified "data deficient" only ten years before. Now that the cat is fully protected over most of its range, CITES has recently placed the Bornean Bay Cat on Appendix II, due to lack of data. Although on paper Borneo has 25 wildlife reserves, only three are actually in existence, with the others only proposed. All of these reserves have been encroached upon by human settlement and logging. Unfortunately local trappers and animal dealers are also well aware that foreign zoos and breeding facilities will pay US $10,000 or more for a live animal. There are no Bay Cats officially in captivity.
[edit] References
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1.^ Wozencraft, W. C. (16 November 2005). Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds). ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd edition ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 542. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3. 2.^ Hearn A, Sanderson J, Ross J, Wilting A. & Sunarto S. (2008). Catopuma badia. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2008. Retrieved on 18 January 2009. Database entry includes justification for why this species is endangered
3.^ J.Mohd-Azlan and J.Sanderson, Geographic distribution and conservation status of the bay cat Catopuma badia, a Bornean endemic, Oryx Vol 41 No 3 July 2007