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Sumatran tigers are critically endangered.

Snared, skinned, sold: Brutal March for Indonesia’s Sumatran tigers

Junaidi Hanafiah, Rahmi Carolina, Vinolia 10 Apr 2025
Snow leopard at ease in its high-mountain habitat. Image courtesy of Madhu Chetri.

How cultural and religious beliefs combine for snow leopard conservation (commentary)

Anil Adhikari 7 Apr 2025

Smuggling networks exploit migrant debt to fuel tiger poaching in Malaysia, study shows

Keith Anthony Fabro 1 Apr 2025
A lion at Ruaha National Park.

Chain-link fencing protects livestock from big cat attacks in Tanzania: Study

Gilbert Nakweya 31 Mar 2025
A captive Sumatran tiger.

Volunteer radio station brings old media to remote Sumatran tiger habitat

Suryadi 18 Feb 2025

Agriculture, illegal ranching and roads threaten the jaguar in Mesoamerica

Astrid Arellano 3 Feb 2025
A pride of lions inside Queen Elizabeth National Park. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Uganda’s tree-climbing lions grow scarce amid nationwide decline of the big cat

Gilbert Nakweya 29 Jan 2025

Vietnam grapples with ‘alarming popularity’ of online illegal wildlife trade

Carolyn Cowan 27 Jan 2025
A close-up image of a Cheetah in the Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Image by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

Do cheetahs scavenge? Yes, research says, but also not really

Dann Okoth 24 Jan 2025
Camera trap image of snow leopards feeding on a domestic yak in Limi Valley, northwestern Nepal. Photo: Himalayan Wolves Project.

The paradox of balancing conservation efforts for Himalayan wolves and snow leopards (commentary)

Naresh Kusi 15 Jan 2025

Conservation corridors provide hope for Latin America’s felines

Antonio José Paz Cardona 2 Jan 2025

A deadly parasite turns jaguar conservation into a human health priority

Sarah Brown 30 Dec 2024
Banner image of a Ranthambore tiger by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

In 2024, Nepal faced old & new challenges after tripling its tiger population

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 Dec 2024
A snow leopard photographed in Nepal. Imagine by Sanjog Rai/WWF Nepal

In 2024, Nepal’s elusive snow leopards pounce into spotlight

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Dec 2024
Sumatran tiger

Camera traps reveal little-known Sumatran tiger forests need better protection

Carolyn Cowan 20 Nov 2024

Killing of jaguar pushes species’ survival in Argentina’s Gran Chaco to the brink

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 11 Nov 2024

Paraguay’s pumas adapt, with some help, to a ranch-filled landscape

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 8 Nov 2024
Clouded leopard.

Study shows, via clouded leopards, how to better protect forests

Carolyn Cowan 8 Nov 2024
A snow leopard photographed in Nepal. Imagine by Sanjog Rai/WWF Nepal

As Nepal counts its snow leopards, even the best estimate is still a guess

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Oct 2024

At Mexico’s school for jaguars, big cats learn skills to return to the wild

Juan Mayorga 21 Oct 2024
A tiger in the Sundarbans.

Tiger population census in Bangladesh shows a hopeful upward trend in the Sundarbans

Abu Siddique 17 Oct 2024

Search for new territory led Nepal’s ‘low-altitude’ snow leopard to get lost

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 Oct 2024
Snow leopard in Nepal

Nepal’s snow leopard conservation shifts focus from research to conflict mitigation

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 Oct 2024
A serval photographed in the area by camera trap with the Sasol plant behind it in 2019. Image by Dan Loock.

Follow the prey: How servals adapt to an industrialized landscape

Juliette Portala 3 Oct 2024

For ranchers in Costa Rica, jaguars and pumas become unexpected allies

Darío Chinchilla 3 Oct 2024
leopard ntnc Nepal

Canine distemper likely infecting & killing Nepal’s leopards, study shows

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Sep 2024
A leopard in India.

Experts call for urgent leopard conservation efforts in Bangladesh

Rafiqul Islam 23 Sep 2024

Budget constraints limit wildlife protection in major Nepali road project

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Aug 2024

Nepal’s buffalo-kills-tiger story reveals deeper pains in compensation system

Abhaya Raj Joshi 24 Aug 2024
A Sumatran tiger.

Sumatran tiger confirmed killed by snare in Indonesia’s West Sumatra province

Jaka Hendra Baittri, Vinolia 13 Aug 2024

‘Lost’ snow leopard to remain at Kathmandu zoo, officials say

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Jul 2024

Where Javan leopards thrive, so do other wildlife, study shows

Basten Gokkon 23 Jul 2024

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