In addition, traps and poison bait take their toll, as do hunters (who have trouble telling feral cats from true wildcats). Other protection measures will also be needed, such as a ban on the sale of leg-hold traps and maintaining a dense network of wooded corridors in open areas in order to promote the colonisation of new shrubbery. As a contribution to the “Countdown to 2010” initiative (“Halt the Loss of Biodiversity”), the 20 communes of Sicona-West have introduced 10 priority measures, including an action plan to save the wildcat and telemetric studies to record its movements. An information campaign (targeted particularly at hunters) about the ecological role of the wildcat could enhance its public image.