The sand cat is one of the most elusive wild cats on the planet — but Grégory Breton, who had worked with captive populations of sand cats, was determined to find them in the wild, even if that meant dodging sandstorms and roughing it in the African desert. Breton, who is a managing director at Panthera, started looking for the wild sand cat in 2013 in the North African desert. But the sand cat is