{"id":255017,"date":"2025-12-28T02:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T02:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/255017\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T02:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T02:59:11","slug":"thailand-rediscovers-extinct-flat-headed-cat-after-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/255017\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand rediscovers \u2018extinct\u2019 flat-headed cat after 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An elusive wild cat long feared extinct in <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/thailand?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thailand<\/a> has been rediscovered three decades after the last recorded sighting, conservation authorities and an NGO said on Friday.Flat-headed cats are among the world\u2019s rarest and most threatened wild felines. Their range is limited to <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/southeast-asia?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Southeast Asia<\/a> and they are endangered because of dwindling habitat.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The domestic cat-sized feline with its distinctive round and close-set eyes was last spotted in a documented sighting in Thailand in 1995.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But an ecological survey that began last year, using camera traps in southern Thailand\u2019s Princess Sirindhorn Wildlife Sanctuary, documented 29 sightings, according to the country\u2019s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation and wild cat conservation organisation Panthera.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe rediscovery is exciting, yet concerning at the same time,\u201d said veterinarian and researcher Kaset Sutasha of Kasetsart University, noting that habitat fragmentation has left the species increasingly \u201cisolated\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It is unclear exactly how many cats were photographed, as the species lacks the markings needed to tell them apart.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But the findings suggest a relatively high concentration of the species, said Panthera conservation programme manager Rattapan Pattanarangsan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An elusive wild cat long feared extinct in Thailand has been rediscovered three decades after the last recorded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[38822,31620,18,49049,132225,132224,19,72627,17,132226,132228,132230,132231,131155,132227,133,4434,391,82110,461,132229],"class_list":{"0":"post-255017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-afp","9":"tag-department-of-national-parks","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-endangered","12":"tag-flat-headed-cats","13":"tag-freshwater-mangroves","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-international-union-for-conservation-of-nature","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-kaset-sutasha","18":"tag-kasetsart-university","19":"tag-panthera","20":"tag-peat-swamps","21":"tag-princess-sirindhorn-wildlife-sanctuary","22":"tag-rattapan-pattanarangsan","23":"tag-science","24":"tag-southeast-asia","25":"tag-thailand","26":"tag-wild-cat","27":"tag-wildlife","28":"tag-wildlife-and-plant-conservation"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115794959530851570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}