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Members of the Nazareth Baptist (Shembe) Church in South Africa wearing both wildlife skins and synthetic Heritage Furs provided in partnership with Panthera. Image courtesy of Gareth Whittington-Jones/Panthera.

Study reveals overlooked cultural threat to wildcats across Africa

Charles Mpaka 22 Oct 2025
A young female leopard photographed at night in Niokolo Koba National Park, Senegal. Panthera/Senegal DPN

West Africa’s leopards now officially endangered after 50% population crash

Elodie Toto 17 Oct 2025
An Indochinese leopard (Panthera pardus delacouri)

Indochinese leopards face ‘bleak’ future, but hope persists

Ana Norman Bermúdez 7 Oct 2025

Rare Javan leopard sighting renews focus on conservation, monitoring efforts

Basten Gokkon, Falahi Mubarok 22 Aug 2025
A common leopard drinking water in a forest in Sri Lanka. Image by Udayan Dasgupta/Mongabay.

Suspected rise in targeted leopard killings worries conservationists in Sri Lanka

Mongabay.com 22 Aug 2025

In India, humans & leopards meet near major cities; preserving habitat is crucial

Shradha Triveni 13 Aug 2025

Conservationists warn of targeted poaching behind Sri Lanka’s leopard killings

Malaka Rodrigo 13 Aug 2025

An aging leopard’s suffering sparks ethical debate in Sri Lanka

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2025

Amur leopards, once nearly extinct, are making a comeback in Far East Asia

Manuel Fonseca 22 Jul 2025
A leopard caught on a camera trap in the Musekese Lumbeya section of Kafue National Park, where Musekese Conservation conducts its research into recovering carnivore populations.

A success story at Zambia’s leopard hotspot: Interview with ecologist Chisomo M’hango

Ryan Truscott 14 Jul 2025
A leopard in Panna National Park, India.

‘Forgotten’ leopards being driven to silent extinction by poaching and trade

Spoorthy Raman 26 Jun 2025
A relaxed leopard family in Kumana. Sightings like this have boosted the popularity of Kumana National Park in eastern Sri Lanka among wildlife tourists seeking leopard encounters. Image courtesy of Shanaka Kalubowila.

Sri Lanka’s Kumana National Park emerges as a leopard hotspot

Mongabay.com 20 Jun 2025

Scat-sampling DNA tool shows potential in African carnivore conservation

Dann Okoth 19 May 2025

Kumana, a historic national park in eastern Sri Lanka, emerges as leopard stronghold

Malaka Rodrigo 5 May 2025
A common leopard drinking water in a forest in Sri Lanka. Image by Udayan Dasgupta/Mongabay.

International Leopard Day celebrates the resilient, yet often-overlooked, big cat

Shreya Dasgupta 2 May 2025

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

Alex Shaw, Spoorthy Raman 7 Apr 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

Leopards’ unique ‘sawing’ sounds could aid conservation efforts

Dann Okoth 30 Jan 2025
A leopard pauses in front of one of Tossens' camera traps, set in an FSC-certified logging concession in the northern Republic of Congo. Her research found that leopards live at the same density in this carefully-managed concession as a nearby national park. Image by Sarah Tossens.

Elusive wildcats may hold the key to healthier forests in Africa

Claudia Geib 22 Oct 2024
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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

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

Basten Gokkon 23 Jul 2024
Snow leopard found in Nepal's plains

Rare snow leopard sighting in Nepal’s ‘home of tiger’ puzzles conservationists

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Jan 2024
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Leopards, Nepal’s other, other big cats, face unprecedented threats

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Dec 2023
A domestic yak grazing in the open.

‘Predator-proof’ husbandry could help curb human-leopard conflict in Nepal: Study

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Oct 2023
Snow leopards, because of their shy nature, size, and style of hunting, stand to lose the most as the wolves move in. Image by Tambako The Jaguar via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

Return of the wolf to Nepal’s Himalayas may threaten snow leopards

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Sep 2023

Nepali researchers yet again photograph snow leopard, leopard in same place

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Aug 2023

In Sri Lanka, humans mistakenly attempt to ‘rescue’ leopard cubs

Malaka Rodrigo 30 Jun 2023
Camera-trap image of a leopard.

Study: Snares claim another local extinction as Cambodia loses its leopards

Sean Mowbray 30 May 2023
A juvenile Javan leopard on the road in Baluran National Park.

Study shows Javan leopard habitat shrinking, but real picture may be worse

Sean Mowbray 4 May 2023

India cheetah births spark interest in fast felines in neighboring Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 3 Apr 2023
A snow leopard in the Himalayan landscape.

Himalayan catfight looms as tigers, leopards venture into snow leopard land

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Feb 2023

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