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WildCat 61 October 2025
– TELF Workers Strike Action
– CCRC to re-open case of the Craigavon Two
– IWW Organiser Training
– IWW Left Reading Group
https://www.onebigunion.ie/post/wildcat-no-61-out-now

#IWW #Wildcat

#Wildcat #carnivores 🐯🐅💛 in #Borneo 🇮🇩🇲🇾 may adjust their schedules to avoid each other as they compete for ever more scarce food 😿 Help them survive and #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔🔥🤮☠️🧐🙊⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife every time you shop! @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2024/08/25/research-wild-cat-carnivores-in-borneo-may-adjust-their-schedules-to-avoid-each-other/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Tiger Panthera tigris

Tiger Panthera tigris

Endangered

Population: Around 3,900

Extant (resident): India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, China, Russia

Tigers, primarily native to Asia’s tropical forests, have seen their habitats shrink dramatically over time. Notably, the Amur Tiger endures in Russia, and there have been sightings of these majestic creatures as high as 4,500 m in Bhutan. Tragically, fewer than 400 tigers remain in Indonesia, clinging to life in Sumatra’s dwindling forests. This decline is attributed to both rampant poaching and severe deforestation, especially for palm oil and pulp industries. As Asia continues to develop rapidly, the vast territories tigers need are shrinking, replaced by agriculture, commercial logging, and settlements. Moreover, tigers‘ prey faces threats from hunting and competition with domestic livestock. It’s time to act and use our wallet as a weapon: be #vegan #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife.

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Tigers, the largest members of the cat family, are renowned for their majestic presence and striking orange coats with black stripes. They possess extraordinary strength and agility and maintain the balance of ecosystems as apex predators. With fewer than 4,500 remaining in the wild, tigers are classified as Endangered, facing grave threats from habitat destruction for palm oil, poaching, and human-wildlife conflict.

Their survival depends on urgent protection and animal advocacy. Protecting tigers ensures the preservation of the rich biodiversity within their habitats. Support their future by joining the #BoycottPalmOil and #Boycott4Wildlife movements.

Habitat

Tigers inhabit a wide variety of environments, including tropical rainforests, mangrove swamps, grasslands, and boreal forests. They require vast territories to hunt and breed, with males typically occupying larger ranges than females. Tigers are currently found in fragmented populations across Asia, with key strongholds in India, Sumatra, and Siberia.

These habitats are increasingly under threat due to deforestation, agricultural expansion, and infrastructure development, which have reduced their historical range by over 93%.

Diet

As apex predators, tigers primarily hunt large prey, such as sambar deer, wild boar, and buffalo. They are known for their stealth and strength, often ambushing their prey with a single powerful strike. Unlike other big cats, tigers can swim to catch prey, a unique skill that sets them apart.

In areas with reduced prey availability, tigers may hunt smaller mammals or livestock, which can lead to conflicts with humans.

Appearance and Behaviour

• Swimming Ability: Tigers are strong swimmers, often crossing rivers and lakes to hunt or cool off—an unusual trait among big cats.

• Individualised Stripes: Their stripes serve as camouflage and are unique to each tiger, making them distinguishable even in dense foliage.

• Vocal Range: Tigers have a wide vocal range, including growls, roars, and chuffs, used to communicate with other tigers.

• Apex Predator Status: As the top predator in their ecosystems, tigers help maintain balance by regulating prey populations.

Tigers are uniquely recognisable by their bold stripe patterns, which are as individual as fingerprints. Their muscular builds, powerful limbs, and retractable claws make them adept hunters and swimmers, setting them apart from most other big cats. Unlike lions or cheetahs, tigers are solitary by nature and fiercely territorial.

Their physical features include a robust skull, long canine teeth, and strong jaw muscles designed for gripping and tearing prey. Tigers are also among the few big cats that enjoy water, often cooling off in rivers and lakes. Their signature behaviours include scent marking, vocalisations such as roars and chuffs, and stealthy stalking of prey.

Reproduction & Mating

Tigers reach sexual maturity at around 3-4 years of age. Breeding typically occurs year-round, but more frequently during the winter months. After a gestation period of approximately 100 days, females give birth to 2-4 cubs in secluded dens.

Cubs are dependent on their mothers for the first 18 months, learning essential survival skills like hunting. Only about half of all cubs survive to adulthood, as they face threats from predators, disease, and starvation.

Threats

Habitat Destruction: Deforestation for palm oil agriculture, timber logging, and development fragments their habitats, isolating populations.

• Poaching: Tigers are hunted for their skins, bones, and other body parts, often sold illegally for traditional medicine or as luxury items. Organisations like EIA directly combat this illegal trade.

• Prey Depletion: Overhunting of herbivores reduces food availability, impacting tiger populations.

• Human-Wildlife Conflict: As human settlements expand, conflicts arise, often leading to retaliation killings of tigers.

The last of Indonesia’s tigers—now fewer than 400—are holding on for survival in the remaining patches of forests on the island of Sumatra. While poaching claims most tigers each year, deforestation remains a serious threat.

Sumatra has lost more than half of its forests in the last 40 years, primarily due to conversion for palm oil and pulp plantations. Poaching for illegal trade in high-value Tiger products including skins, bones, meat and tonics is a primary threat to Tigers.

Asia is a densely populated and rapidly developing region, bringing huge pressures to bear on the large wild areas required for viable Tiger populations. Conversion of forest land to agriculture and silviculture, commercial logging, and human settlement are the main drivers of Tiger habitat loss. With their substantial dietary requirements,

Tigers require a healthy large ungulate prey base, but these species are also under heavy human subsistence hunting pressure and competition from domestic livestock.

Tigers are classified as Endangered on the IUCN Red List, with fewer than 4,500 individuals remaining in the wild. While conservation efforts have stabilised some populations, habitat loss and poaching continue to pose significant challenges. Collaborative international efforts are crucial to ensuring their survival.

The last of Indonesia’s tigers—now fewer than 400—are holding on for survival in the remaining patches of forests on the island of Sumatra. While poaching claims most tigers each year, deforestation remains a serious threat.
IUCN RED LIST

Tiger Panthera Tigris

Support Tiger Protection

• Boycotting palm oil and other products linked to deforestation.

• Contributing to organisations that protect tiger habitats and combat illegal poaching and animal trafficking like Traffic and EIA.

• Raise awareness about the critical importance of tigers in maintaining healthy ecosystems by joining the #BoycottPalmOil and #Boycott4Wildlife movement.

Further Information

Britannica. (2024). Tiger. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/animal/tiger

Goodrich, J., Wibisono, H., Miquelle, D., Lynam, A.J., Sanderson, E., Chapman, S., Gray, T.N.E., Chanchani, P. & Harihar, A. 2022. Panthera tigris. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T15955A214862019. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T15955A214862019.en. Accessed on 20 December 2024.

Panthera. (2024). Tiger. Retrieved from https://panthera.org/cat/tiger

Dalida Innes Wildlife Photography

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Craig Jones Wildlife Photography - A Bengal tiger drinking at a river

Tiger by Dalida Innes Wildlife Photography

Tiger in Bandhavgarh National Park, India. By Dalida Innes Wildlife Photography

Sumatran Tiger Panthera tigris sumatrae - Asia

The Tigers of Scotland (2017) - Scottish Wildcat Documentary - Directors... https://youtu.be/ANuF_5gbt-I?si=UVSKGGS7VV7_dAfP

#scotland #cats #scottishwildcat #wildcat #highlandtiger #tiger

The graceful small #wildcat 🐈😺 the #margay is 'Near Threatened' by #hunting, #palmoil #meat agriculture in #Mexico 🇲🇽 #Brazil 🇧🇷 #Venezuela 🇻🇪 #Colombia 🇨🇴 Help them survive! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🧐⛔️ be #Vegan 🥦👌 and #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social
https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/11/26/margay-leopardus-wiedii/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

@walkhighlands.co.uk I walked the #Newtonmore #Wildcat Trail in April 2019. Liked most of it but remember a problem with the signing somewhere in the northern half. Either around km 5 or between 6 and 7 I think. One of the rare moments I'd have been lost without GPS.
Lots of #Gaelic placenames there!

Today in Labor History September 16, 1945: 43,000 oil workers went on strike in 20 states. During WWII, most of the major unions collaborated with the U.S. war effort by enforcing labor “discipline” and preventing strikes. In exchange, the U.S. government supported closed shop policies under which employers at unionized companies agreed to hire only union members. While the closed shop gave unions more power within a particular company, the no-strike policy made that power virtually meaningless. When the war ended, inflation soared and veterans flooded the labor market. As a result, frustrated workers began a series of wildcat strikes. Many grew into national, union-supported strikes. In November 1945, 225,000 UAW members went on strike. In January 1946, 174,000 electric workers struck. That same month, 750,000 steel workers joined them. Then, in April, the coal strike began. 250,000 railroad workers struck in May. In total, 4.3 million workers went on strike. It was the closest the U.S. came to a national General Strike in the 20th century. And in December 1946, Oakland, California did have a General Strike, the last in U.S. history. Overall, it was the largest strike wave in U.S. history. In 1947, Congress responded to the strike wave by enacting the Taft-Hartley Act, restricting the powers and activities of labor unions and banning the General Strike. The act is still in force today and one the main reasons there hasn’t been a General Strike in the U.S. since 1945.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #GeneralStrike #oakland #oilworkers #union #strike #strikewave #worldwartwo #tafthartley #uaw #coal #railroads #inflation #steel #wildcat

AFL union rally, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 1947, with large sign that reads: Mr. President, Veto the Taft-Hartley slave labor bill.

Scottish ~~murder floof~~ #wildcat. The position of the ears and the whiskers, as well as the presentation of the teeth, leave no doubt that this wild feline means business. (Crosspost from FB)

Additional text from the FB posting: "“Cat-fiadhaich” is the Scottish Gaelic term for wildcat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
“Fiadhaich” translates to “wild” or “savage”- which sums up this species pretty well 😾"

A very wild Scottish wildcat hisses at the camera, posing aggressively.

Today's the birthday of Ted Grant, aka Wildcat.

(Art by Ernie Chan, Murphy Anderson, Dario Brizuela, and George Perez.)

#1976DCCalendar #DCComics #comics #Wildcat #JusticeSociety #ScoobyDoo

Cats

https://makertube.net/w/wNVDhLp8ZRJytckzwgjDHj

@Byrnejmf

Every single health care worked from coast to coast in Canada should #Wildcat

Do you want #Ontario #Nurses to #Wildcat?

Because this is how you get Ontario Nurses to Wildcat.....

https://ona.org/news/20250903-hospital-arbitration-decision/

#Solidarity

IWW Newsletter #60 September 2025
In this issue:
– Malvern House #Teachers #Unionise

– #DirectAction Against #Genocide is NOT a Crime!

– Foyle Pride: No Pride in Genocide

– #IWW Literature Committee Activity

https://iww.org.uk/news/wildcat-issue-60-out-now/

#wildcat

QUEREMOS LA JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA EN EL #CINE (probando medianoche)

Con George Clooney haciendo de #Wildcat, #GreenLantern, o #Flash, cualquier bondi nos deja bien.

https://youtube.com/shorts/-sK8Z968d1k

#peliculas #comics #superheroes #JSA #DCComics #DCU

And finally have a annoyed wildcat...

#weilburg #photography #wildcat

Wild cat partially hidden behind leaves and branches, looking slightly annoyed

The graceful small #wildcat 🐈😺 the #margay is 'Near Threatened' by #hunting, #palmoil #meat agriculture in #Mexico 🇲🇽 #Brazil 🇧🇷 #Venezuela 🇻🇪 #Colombia 🇨🇴 Help them survive! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🧐⛔️ be #Vegan 🥦👌 and #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social
https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/11/26/margay-leopardus-wiedii/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Lynx Cluster vs Lynx

For more on the #constellation lynx, check out: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/cosmic-background-lynx/

For more on the #animal #lynx check out: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/lynx-creature-corner/

📷 :https://esahubble.org/images/heic0312d/ & https://flic.kr/p/7NwsQK

#astronomy #astrophotography #Space #science #Creature #WildCat #Animals #nature #podcast

A ground-view 2.5 degree astrophotography image centering the Lynx galaxy cluster filled with countless tiny stars scattered across space. Near the center of the image, a small white rectangular box marking the outline of the Kitt Peak Mayall 4-m Telescope image that was previously published.

Today in Labor History August 16, 2012: South African police fatally shot 34 miners and wounded 78 in the Marikana massacre, during a 6-week wildcat strike at the Lonmin platinum mine in North West province. It was the most lethal attack by South African security forces against civilians since the 1976 Soweto uprising, and it has been compared to the 1960 Sharpeville massacre.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #southafrica #massacre #mining #union #strike #wildcat #Sharpeville #soweto #uprising #policebrutality #police #apartheid #racism #BlackMastadon