Overview
- Camera traps in Princess Sirindhorn Wildlife Sanctuary logged 29 detections, providing the first confirmed records in Thailand since 1995.
- Footage documented a female with a cub, signaling active reproduction in the local population.
- The survey was conducted by Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation and Panthera as part of the largest targeted effort for the species.
- Researchers plan to submit the findings to the IUCN Red List Committee to update national assessments and to bolster calls for stronger habitat protection.
- Flat-headed cats are globally scarce at roughly 2,500 adult individuals and depend on wetlands increasingly threatened by agriculture, fishing and other human activities.