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Di Francis

Author of:

  1. Cat Country
  2. My Highland Kellas Cats
  3. Beast of Exmoor

Appeared in the recent documentary 'Beyond Explanation' focusing on big cats in
Scotland. Also countless television, radio and media appearances.

Di does not really need an introduction, practically everybody interested in this subject will have read her
books published in the 80s and early 90s.
Agree with her or not, she is the pioneer of British Big Cats, inspiring many to take up the quest, including
the conference organiser, Mark Fraser.

We are pleased she will be attending the conference as a speaker and look forward to her contribution,
after all no British Big Cat gathering would really be complete without her.

Di said: “We have gone a long torturous route in identifying the reality of British big cats but now in the 21st century,
the question is not are they here, but what are they? “An elderly couple while walking along a beach near the river estuary
in Oban, Scotland, found the body of a puma-sized silver grey female cat with a faint ginger stripe across its face and a
white or cream chest; washed up on the beach.”