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This week’s featured animal is a little different. Sycamore Land Trust’s nature preserves are home to many native Indiana plants and animals, including the bobcat.
Bobcats are a medium sized wild cat native to North America. Bobcats are largely solitary and rarely seen, due to their ability to blend in with their surroundings and move silently. Bobcat vocalizations are rarely heard by humans. But, in southern Indiana, Sycamore Land Trust is monitoring bobcats living on our nature preserves, using motion triggered wildlife cameras installed along game trails. These cameras have captured multiple bobcat families traveling and hunting together, and even recorded a bobcat mother calling to her kittens to catch up. You can watch the footage at sycamorelandtrust.org/wildlife.
This week’s topic: animal welfare and land stewardship
Land conservation is a critical piece of animal welfare. Often protecting the habitats of many wildlife species, protected green spaces with accessible trails provide places for people to connect with their animals, unplug, and be in nature. In southern Indiana, Sycamore Land Trust has been protecting land, restoring habitat, and connecting people to nature since 1990. Sycamore Land Trust owns and cares for more than 10,500 acres on over 125 protected properties and maintains trails on 13 preserves for free public use. They have accessible nature preserves – some right in the middle of neighborhoods – and they’re a resource to discover new habitats.
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Lil BUB’s Lil Show is a co-production of WFHB and Lil BUB’s Big Fund
Segment production by Christine Brackenhoff and Stacy Bridavsky
Audio support provided by Mike Bridavsky
Theme music: “A Friend” by Lil BUB
Support for featured pets can be made through Lil BUB’s Big Fund, following the link here.
While bobcats are best left in the wild, support for Sycamore Land Trust’s conservation work can be made here.
