The CAT is a formalised methodology to evaluate and compare standards and certification schemes. It assesses standard requirements and a scheme’s governance, rules and procedures. The outcome is a better understanding of a certification scheme’s strengths and weaknesses.

May 18, 2015 · WWF has developed the Certification Assessment Tool (CAT) to test the strength of certification systems and their standards on issues that matter to us and many other stakeholders worldwide. The CAT is based on our experience of working with a wide range of commodity certification schemes.

WWF and Panthera are partnering to minimize the threats these emblematic big cats face and protect the crucial biodiversity that exists within their landscapes through actively engaging local communities, based on the principles of equality, inclusion, mutual trust, and capacity building.

Bangkok, January 14, 2020 --A remarkable one fifth of the world’s 36 cat species are found in a single landscape straddling Thailand and Myanmar, but they are under increasing threat of extinction, according to a new report from WWF that outlines an eight-point action plan to …

The big cat running out of space The conservation effort taken to prevent the Iberian Lynx’s extinction has paid out, and from a shrinking population of less than 100 individuals in 2002, now 404 cats live in the Mediterranean forests of the Iberian Peninsula.

The clouded leopard is more at home in the trees than on the ground and can move nimbly through the dense forests of southeast Asia and the eastern Himalayas. The exact numbers of this secretive cat are not known but they are believed to be in …

WWF has long been dedicated to the conservation of snow leopards, with offices in 8 of the 12 range countries where these threatened big cats are found.

The main threats to lions are habitat loss and fragmentation, retaliatory or preemptive killing to protect human life and livestock, and decreasing natural prey. With about 20,000 lions left, the IUCN has categorized them as vulnerable. Learn more about WWF's work so that lions and people living amongst them can coexist.

This elusive big cat has been highly protected since 1993. WWF-Ukraine launched the "Save the Lynx Programme" in 2019 to engage the public and improve effective conservation efforts at both the regional and national levels.

Within WWF’s Living with Big Cat’s initiative, implemented in Sikkim as well as six other priority landscapes in Asia, Africa, and South America, women from communities in the big cat landscapes are important stakeholders.