Felidae Conservation Fund the huemul's decline. The Bornean Wild Cat and Clouded Leopard Project in Malaysia investigates the conservation needs of five species of Bornean wild cats (Bornean clouded leopard, bay cat, flat-headed cat, marbled cat, and leopard cat). The study will use GPS collars and radio tracking to document spatial patterns, ranging behavior, activity patterns, and habitat use. Felidae is working in partnership with the Global Canopy Programme (UK), the Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation at the University of Malaysia, and Oxford graduate students Andrew Hearn and Joanna Ross. The Study on Endangered Snow Leopards in Mongolia is a long-term research
Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 inquiry compared the Act to legislation from France, the U.S., and Japan. The report concluded that "virtually all witnesses agreed that the UK has the tightest system of regulation in the world" and that it is "the only country to require an explicit cost/benefit assessment of every application to conduct animal research." Note that costs are explicitly in terms of adverse effects on animals, not the financial cost to the experimenters. In 2005, Patricia Hewitt, then British Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, called the Act "[among] the strongest laws in the world to protect animals which are being