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International Tiger Day: A complex landscape of recovery, conflict, and empty forests

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2026
Tigers are territorial and must strike out to find their own territory when they leave their mothers at 18 months-two years of age and adult cats require large home ranges, making safe pathways between protected areas critical for their survival. Image © Steve Winter/Big Cat Voices.

India’s tiger numbers are rising. Protecting their pathways is next

Nirmal Ghosh 28 Jul 2026
Six cheetahs were recently moved to Zambia’s Greater Luangwa Ecosystem, after 30 years of absence. Image courtesy of EWT.

Cheetahs reintroduced to Zambia’s Greater Luangwa Ecosystem

Charles Mpaka 27 Jul 2026

Conservationists got delayed access to court-ordered inspection of Nairobi National Park

Lynet Otieno 24 Jul 2026
Tigers in Rajasthan, India. The country is a stronghold of wild tigers, and the report found that most of the wild tigers smuggled into Cambodia came from India.

Report reveals Cambodia’s appetite for tigers, rhinos and other endangered wildlife

Spoorthy Raman 21 Jul 2026

Scientific & traditional knowledge are key for effective & community-centered conservation (commentary)

Charudutt Mishra 20 Jul 2026
Investigators with Agent C Wildlife Initiative documented a baby pangolin available for sale in Vientiane's Dongmakkhay Market. Pangolins are repeatedly sold for their meat, scales and sometimes for making wine. Image supplied by Agent C Wildlife Initiative.

Laos’s illegal wildlife shops keep growing despite enforcement, investigators find

Gerald Flynn 15 Jul 2026
The rescued tiger at Khulna Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center. Image courtesy of the Bangladesh Forest Department.

Bangladesh gets ready for its first release of tiger rescued from poachers’ trap

Abu Siddique 10 Jul 2026
A leopard in Pendjari NP, in 2022. Camera traps were placed along likely travel routes and positioned to photograph both sides of the leopards to aid with identification. The researchers were able to identify 30 individual leopards from their unique spot patterns. Image courtesy of ZSL-CCI/Panthera/APN-Pendjari National Park.

Endangered West African leopards show signs of recovery, despite odds. ‘It’s a win’

Ruth Kamnitzer 2 Jul 2026
A Florida panther.

Wildlife’s unpredictable movements make climate-change planning difficult

Gloria Dickie 1 Jul 2026
A jimbu (Allium przewalskianum) in the Tibetan Plateau.

What’s jimbu? The herb that bolsters an iconic Nepali dish could also help save snow leopards

Bibek Bhandari 30 Jun 2026

One mountain lion changed the food web in a California suburb, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jun 2026
Mel Sunquist

Mel Sunquist, field biologist and mentor to generations of conservationists

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jun 2026
A Himalayan wolf.

How snow leopards, wolves and leopards share the same Himalayan valley, study

Liz Kimbrough 26 Jun 2026
Sarus Crane in Nepal zoo

Nepal’s Central Zoo faces questions over its bird flu response

Deepak Adhikari 25 Jun 2026

How leopards and wolves share the same Himalayan valley: Study

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jun 2026
A snow leopard (Uncia uncia).

Community more crucial than snow leopard counting: Interview with Rodney Jackson

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Jun 2026

Sri Lanka leopard deaths prevalent in region where humans and big cats overlap

Malaka Rodrigo 11 Jun 2026
A Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) in India. Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Cambodia wants its tigers back. So it plans to import Bengal tigers from India

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Jun 2026
Sok Pheap climbs a tree to tap resin.

Bengal tigers in Cambodia? Reintroduction plan raises questions

Arathi Menon, Andy Ball 4 Jun 2026

In Kyrgyzstan, a climate-ready corridor gives snow leopards and herders room to roam

Liz Kimbrough 22 May 2026
Image of women look after their cattle on the fringes of Bardiya National Park.

Rural women at increasing risk of human-wildlife conflict in Nepal

Mongabay.com 21 May 2026

Nepal proposes park for ‘problem’ tigers amid rising conflicts

Mongabay.com 21 May 2026

Three baby pumas born in Minnesota, US, is a first in more than 100 years

Bobby Bascomb 20 May 2026

War on Iran may threaten conservation of the world’s rarest big cat

Mongabay.com 18 May 2026

Light pollution reshapes predator-prey dynamics at California’s urban edge, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 15 May 2026
A captive Persian leopard in a British zoo, 2005.

Endangered Persian leopards persist across borders, despite hunters and landmines

Kayleigh Long 15 May 2026
Jaguars are native to the Americas and are found in 18 countries.

Honduran authorities seize jaguar kept as pet, put spotlight on local trafficking

Spoorthy Raman 14 May 2026

New study explores how reforestation could help Java’s leopards survive

Basten Gokkon 13 May 2026

Overtourism threatens Sri Lanka’s leopards

Mongabay.com 6 May 2026
A Bengal tiger from Rajasthan, India. Poaching is one of the biggest threats to tigers, an endangered cat in Asia.

Facebook is a hub for illegal wildlife trade, and that’s by design, report says

Spoorthy Raman 5 May 2026
An African leopard in South Africa.

International Leopard Day: A spotty outlook for the spotted cat

Mongabay.com 2 May 2026

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