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The adult female Chinese mountain cat found by Han Xue-song in winter near her den in the Sanjiangyuan region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Easy to catch, yet little known: Meet the Chinese mountain cat

Ruth Kamnitzer 18 Nov 2024
A bobcat navigates a snow-covered branch along the Madison River in Yellowstone National Park.

Bobcats are back, and they’re helping protect people from zoonotic disease

Christine Woodside 12 Nov 2024
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.

Inbreeding adds to growing threats to Africa’s smallest wildcat, study finds

Ruth Kamnitzer 28 Oct 2024
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

Africa’s little-known golden cat gets a conservation boost, with community help

Spoorthy Raman 15 Oct 2024
An African wildcat in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. While little is known about the threats facing African wildcats in West Africa, across their range they are at risk from hybridization and disease transmission from domestic cats. Image by Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

West Africa’s forgotten felines endangered by conflict and research gaps

Ruth Kamnitzer 11 Oct 2024
African penguins are now an Endangered species and listed as in need of urgent conservation action. Image by Petro Kotze.

Caracal, meet penguin: How humans pushed unlikely predator and prey together

Petro Kotzé 8 Oct 2024

How a fun women’s gathering led to small wildcat conservation in Peru’s Andes

James Hall 22 Aug 2024

In Brazil, conservationists try to save one of the world’s most endangered cats

Sarah Brown 13 Jun 2024
Unlike most other felids, the jaguarundi is active during the day.

Elusive jaguarundi inspires biologists to share data across Latin America

Ruth Kamnitzer 30 May 2024

Mysterious, at risk, understudied flat-headed cat lacks conservation focus

Sean Mowbray 29 May 2024
A caracal.

Ridiculously rare photo catches Asian caracal swimming a river in India

Jeremy Hance 10 May 2024
A fishing cat caught on camera wandering through a shrimp farm in Thailand, where wildcats can run into conflict with local communities.

Saving Asia’s fishing cat means protecting threatened wetland habitat

Sean Mowbray 9 May 2024
Photo of the captive bay cat in 2008.

On the trail of Borneo’s bay cat, one of the world’s most mysterious felines

Jeremy Hance 15 Apr 2024

Smallest wildcat of the Atlantic Forest faces enormous threats

Aldo Benítez 27 Feb 2024
A guina.

Conservationists aim to save South America’s super tiny wild cat, the guina

Petro Kotzé 22 Jan 2024
Raising awareness about fishing cats during an education program.

Conservationists in Nepal say government must step up in coming years

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Dec 2023

Bringing the forgotten small wildcats of Latin America into the light

Antonio José Paz Cardona 14 Dec 2023
The sand cat’s exceptional hearing helps the species hunt in the desert at night. Here, a sand cat was caught on camera with a meal clutched in its mouth.

Shining a spotlight on the wide-roaming sand cat ‘king of the desert’

Petro Kotzé 11 Dec 2023
An endangered Texas ocelot (Leopardus pardalis)

Texas ocelot breeding and reintroduction may offer new route to recovery

Erik Iverson 21 Nov 2023
The Iriomote cat (Prionailurus bengalensis iriomotensi).

Meet Japan’s Iriomote and Tsushima cats: Ambassadors for island conservation

Annelise Giseburt 24 Oct 2023
Rama Mishra and an assistant with a fishing cat in a fish-farming area in Sunsari district.

‘More research leads to more awareness’: Q&A with fishing cat expert Rama Mishra

Abhaya Raj Joshi 24 Aug 2023
A fishing cat.

Small wildcats pose big challenges, but coexistence is very much possible

Sean Mowbray 21 Jul 2023
A domestic cat out in the wild.

Mating game: Survival of some small wildcats at risk due to housecat hybrids

Elizabeth Devitt 25 May 2023
A black-footed cat.

‘Anthill tiger’: Putting one of Africa’s rarest wildcats on the radar

Petro Kotzé 18 May 2023
A small cat.

Small cats face big threats: Reasons to save these elusive endangered species

Sean Mowbray 19 Apr 2023

Conservationists unite to tackle Latin America’s dog threat to wild cats

Sean Mowbray 19 Apr 2023
An Iberian lynx.

Vulture carrion potential boon and threat for endangered Iberian lynx: Studies

Sean Mowbray 4 Apr 2023
Jake Strouf and his wife were driving in the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge when they got the rare sighting of ocelots crossing the road. Image courtesy of Jake Strouf.

In South Texas, watch out for ocelots crossing roads (commentary)

Sharon Wilcox 13 Mar 2023
A margay.

Forest loss may push tree-dependent marbled cats into threatened category

Sean Mowbray 8 Feb 2023

‘Grumpiest cat’ leaves its calling card on the world’s highest mountain

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Jan 2023
A jaguar swims across a river.

Community study sheds light on wild cat killings in Brazil’s central Amazon

Sean Mowbray 14 Oct 2022

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