Caught on camera! Almost nothing was known about Africa’s rarest big cat: the golden cat. Even researchers working in its forest habitat didn’t know it was there. The species is so elusive that, in 16 years of fieldwork, conservation biologist Mwezi Mugerwa has seen one with his own eyes just three times. But now, that’s changing – not through sightings, but through camera traps. In 2019, Mugerwa launched a massive effort to find the cat, founding a 46-member research network across 19 countries