Services that biodiversity provides are free and sadly neglected.

These leopard cats do supporting services such as pollination and seed disposal when they roam to hunt, allowing flora diversity to flourish. Also, they facilitate the nutrient cycle and balance the ecosystem when they defecate and kill off smaller preys controlling their population. We are altering this natural progression and this modification is evidently not working on the account that our earth is dying. Singapore in particular face severe haze problems with the absence of a thriving ecosystem to filter the air.

Provisioning services that leopard cats could potentially provide us with would be lost even before it is discovered with their extinction. Interestingly, their hybridized descendants the Bengal cats are said to be immune of feline leukaemia (FLV); possible gene research to come up with an immunity to cure other domestic cats and then, who knows, humans maybe?

Lastly, we should take responsibility and make it an obligation since Singapore is a relatively safe haven for the leopard cats. Our small geographic landscape gives us an advantage in implementing laws and enforcing actions against illegal trading and poaching. We might be the last hope for such animals to exist, what more it is our last and only wildcat that we can proudly award Singapore citizenship to!