Call to raise awareness on endangered species

As Southeast Asia's wildcat population is at risk of extinction, the Clouded Leopard Conservation Summit last week urged the media to educate the public about those rare animals to raise their awareness and call for their cooperation to preserve the endangered species.

"There are eight types of wildcats in Thailand, and two of them have already been put on the World Conservation Union's red list of threatened species, which include flatheaded cats and fishing cats," Boripat Siriaroonrat, a veterinarian and assistant director of the Zoological Park Organisation's conservation, research and education unit, said yesterday.

"A big....