✯ A Manul (via Green Renaissance): About twelve million years ago the manul was one of the first two modern cats to evolve and it hasn’t changed since. It's a small wild cat having a broad but patchy distribution in the grasslands and montane steppe of Central Asia. The species is negatively impacted by habitat degradation, prey base decline, and hunting, and has therefore been classified as Near Threatened by IUCN.✯