Activist building on her father's legacy to save wildcats

TAKETOMI, Japan - Photo taken May 26, 2014 shows Kumi Togawa standing near water along Haemida beach on southern Iriomote Island in Okinawa Prefecture, where a sickly Iriomote wildcat was found in 1965. The remains of the cat, which soon died, became a specimen. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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