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An Indochinese tiger. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Thailand’s ‘second’ tiger population stable, but barriers to expansion persist

Carolyn Cowan 9 Apr 2025
Jaguar siblings in Porto Jofre in the Brazilian Pantanal. Image by Bernard Dupont via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Jaguar tourism in Brazil’s Pantanal needs new rules to avoid collapse: Study

Shanna Hanbury 8 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)

7 Apr 2025

What do CITES data tell us about the legal wildcat trade?

Alex Shaw, Spoorthy Raman 7 Apr 2025
Fishing cat. Image by Kelinahandbasket via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Fishing cats in India struggle to survive outside protected areas

Mongabay.com 4 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

Vincent van der Merwe (1983-2025), champion of the cheetah

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Mar 2025

Nepal collaborates with neighbors to gain wildlife crime intel but struggles with enforcement

Kosh Raj Koirala 26 Mar 2025
Banner image of a bobcat by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.com

How bobcats protect us from diseases, Mongabay podcast explores

Mongabay.com 24 Mar 2025
The number of lions in the reserve had been rising since the introduction of three lions in 2012. The population now stands at between 80 and 100, according to the officials at the reserve

In Malawi reserve, contraceptives help balance lion and prey populations

Charles Mpaka 19 Mar 2025
A fishing cat photographed by a camera trap in Nepal. Image courtesy of Rama Mishra.

Fishing cat home range far bigger than previously thought, Nepal study suggests

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Mar 2025
A Bharatpur Metropolitan City truck ferries municipal waste inside the Barandabhar forest in Chitwan. Image by Rajesh Ghimire.

Chitwan city using Indo-Nepal wildlife corridor for waste dump

Rajesh Ghimire 11 Mar 2025
An African golden cat caught in a snare.

Ugandan researcher wins ‘Emerging Conservationist’ award for work on golden cats

Abhishyant Kidangoor 6 Mar 2025

In a seasonally flooded Amazon forest, jaguars take to the trees

Tiago da Mota e Silva 4 Mar 2025
Image of a Eurasian lynx walking on snow, staring at the camera. Image by Rolf Nyström/Swedensbigfive.org.

Sweden to kill 87 Eurasian lynx despite complaints to EU Commission

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Mar 2025
African palm civet (Nandinia binotata), Nouabale-Ndoki NP. Elusive yet abundant, nocturnal African palm civets are widely hunted for bushmeat in many parts of Africa. Image courtesy of Will Burrard-Lucas/WCS.

Elusive wildlife shows up for photographer’s camera traps in Congo

Spoorthy Raman, Victoria Schneider 26 Feb 2025

Study links African lion survival to prey availability

Charles Mpaka 21 Feb 2025
An ocelot walks tentatively into a pre-release enclosure.

Getting rewilding right with the reintroduction of small wildcats

Sean Mowbray 18 Feb 2025
A captive Sumatran tiger.

Volunteer radio station brings old media to remote Sumatran tiger habitat

Suryadi 18 Feb 2025

Bobcats benefit both human and ecological health, but their growing populations are often misunderstood

Mike DiGirolamo 11 Feb 2025

Agriculture, illegal ranching and roads threaten the jaguar in Mesoamerica

Astrid Arellano 3 Feb 2025

Leopards’ unique ‘sawing’ sounds could aid conservation efforts

Dann Okoth 30 Jan 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
Domesticated yaks ferry essential supplies on the Sagarmatha trekking trail. Image by Shashwat Pant.

Helicopters slash the trek to Earth’s highest peak, but leave Sherpas grounded

Shashwat Pant 21 Jan 2025
Banner image of a Eurasian Lynx by Böhringer Friedrich via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5).

1 lynx dead, 3 quarantined after suspected illegal release in Scotland

Kristine Sabillo 16 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
Hamba_ASliwa. A male black-footed cat stalking prey in winter 2019. Black-footed cats eat mostly small mammals and birds. Their keen sight and agility mean they are extremely successful hunters. Photo by Alexander Sliwa.

Meet Africa’s most lethal cat: the black-footed cat

Romina Castagnino 2 Jan 2025

Camera traps reveal first jaguar in northwestern Ecuador forests in years

Kristine Sabillo 31 Dec 2024

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