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Can a country have too many tigers? Nepal is about to find out

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Jul 2022
White-backed vulture (Gyps africanus) adult landing composite, Etosha National Park, Namibia. Photo credit: Charles J. Sharp

Cheetah reintroduction in Malawi brings vultures back to the skies

Ryan Truscott 25 Jul 2022
A tiger in Russia. Image courtesy of Panthera.

Tigers may avoid extinction, but we must aim higher (commentary)

John Goodrich 22 Jul 2022

Room to roam: Biologists and communities create corridors for jaguars in Mexico

Marlén Castro and Thelma Gómez Durán 29 Jun 2022
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As Nepal’s tigers thrive, Indigenous knowledge may be key in preventing attacks

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Jun 2022
Snow leopard at ease in its high-mountain habitat. Image courtesy of Madhu Chetri.

‘Protecting snow leopards benefits other species’: Q&A with Rinzin Phunjok Lama

Abhaya Raj Joshi 9 Jun 2022

Indonesian official charged, but not jailed, for trading in Sumatran tiger parts

Junaidi Hanafiah 7 Jun 2022
A persian leopard. Image via Peoples Trust for Endangered Species.

Protect Persian leopards, and their defenders, for World Environment Day (commentary)

Jane Goodall, Hedieyeh Tehrany 3 Jun 2022
A cheetah cub. Thirty-six rescued cheetah orphans went on to be selected for release during the CCF’s rehabilitation project. Image courtesy of the Cheetah Conservation Fund.

Rehabilitation research returns orphaned cheetahs to the wild

Sean Mowbray 1 Jun 2022
Tourists petting a tiger cub at Doc Antle's Myrtle Beach Tiger Safari in South Carolina, U.S. Antle faces federal charges for wildlife trafficking.

Year of the Tiger: Illegal trade thrives amid efforts to save wild tigers

Sharon Guynup 31 May 2022
A Bengal tiger sits on a road in neighboring India.

Nepal’s key habitat could lose 39% of its tigers in 20 years, study says

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 May 2022
A Bengal tiger in Nepal's Chitwan National Park.

Tiger-centric conservation efforts push other predators to the fringes

Abhaya Raj Joshi 24 May 2022

As tiger numbers in Nepal and India grow, their freedom to roam shrinks

Abhaya Raj Joshi, Sahana Ghosh 13 May 2022
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Tiger politics and tiger conservation: Where the stakeholders are going wrong (commentary)

Chris Slappendel 13 Apr 2022
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Tiger and bear rescue spotlights captive wildlife tourism woes in Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 10 Mar 2022
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Will the U.S. Congress act to regulate big cats kept in captivity? (commentary)

Monique Sosnowski, Sarika Khanwilkar 24 Feb 2022

New study highlights hidden scale of U.S. illegal tiger trade

Carolyn Cowan 2 Feb 2022

Malaysian officials deny deforestation drives deadly human-wildlife conflict

Rachel Donald 31 Jan 2022

For the Year of the Tiger, a shared vision for the future of the iconic cat (commentary)

Coalition for Securing a Viable Future for the Tiger 31 Jan 2022

The Years of the Tiger: The demand for tigers and the price they pay (commentary)

Chris Slappendel 28 Jan 2022
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‘Huge blow’ for tiger conservation as two of the big cats killed in Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 18 Jan 2022

Wild cat trade: Why the cheetah is not safe just yet (commentary)

Patricia Tricorache and Tomas Maule 12 Jan 2022
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Tiger farms doing little to end wild poaching, Vietnam consumer study shows

Carolyn Cowan 29 Dec 2021

Meet the fishing jaguars that have made this patch of the Pantanal their own

Dimas Marques 20 Dec 2021
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Tigers, jaguars under threat from tropical hydropower projects: Study

Carolyn Cowan 9 Dec 2021

The catfight within tiger conservation: Why all stakeholders need to start working together (commentary)

Chris Slappendel 3 Dec 2021
Jaguar in a river in Mexico. Photo credit: Gerardo Ceballos

Jaguars in Mexico are growing in number, a promising sign that national conservation strategies are working

Guananí Gómez-Van Cortright 22 Nov 2021

An unlikely safari in Brazil is helping save the Pantanal’s jaguars

Daniel Nunes Gonçalves 18 Nov 2021

Starving and injured Sumatran tiger dies in captivity, Indonesian officials report

Lili Rambe 10 Nov 2021
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Fire and forest loss ignite concern for Brazilian Amazon’s jaguars

Carolyn Cowan 12 Oct 2021

Indonesian park officials douse wildfire in Javan leopard habitat

Asad Asnawi 12 Oct 2021

As tigers dwindle, Indonesia takes aim at poaching ring

Junaidi Hanafiah 27 Sep 2021

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