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Why are these lynxes washing their food?

Romi Castagnino 19 Oct 2026
Jaguarundis are sometimes known as the “otter cat” due to their distinctive, uncat-like appearance. They’re unique for their wide range of vocalizations, including “chirping” like a bird.

The jaguarundi is relatively easy to see. That may have hidden its decline

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Oct 2026
A leopard cat steps out of its cage and into the forest in Phu Pha Man National Park, northeastern Thailand, after several months in the care of the Khon Kaen wildlife rescue center. Image by Ana Norman Bermúdez for Mongabay.

‘A few are afraid of the chicks’: Preparing Thailand’s rescued leopard cats for life in the wild

Ana Norman Bermúdez 7 Oct 2026
Bolivia, September 1, 2026 – An individual of Leopardus tilcayo resides at Senda Verde Animal Refuge in Bolivia’s Yungas region. The animal is the only known individual of the species living in protective captivity. It arrived at the sanctuary around 2017 after being turned over by a local family that had kept it in their home. Photo by Fernando Faciole/National Geographic.

How new is the first ‘new-to-science’ cat discovered in more than 100 years?

Shanna Hanbury 25 Sep 2026

Cheetah cubs at Prague Zoo are doing well after a period of strong storms and their mother’s illness

Associated Press 25 Sep 2026
Tiger cat released with satellite collar in Mirador State Park. Courtesy of Tadeu de Oliveira.

A new cat species was just discovered. Several more may follow

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Sep 2026
A jaguarundi at a zoo in Germany.

Increasingly rare: Jaguarundi moves up a notch on the endangered species list

Sean Mowbray 17 Aug 2026
Sand cats are the only desert-dwelling wild feline.

Caught on camera: Sand cats may have a ‘sizable population’ in Qatar

Alex Megerle 14 Aug 2026
Michelle Schroeder and her dog, Lyka in Benfontein Nature Reserve. Image courtesy of Veer Bills.

From small cats to pangolins: Detection dogs help track elusive species

María de los Ángeles Orfila 8 Aug 2026
Unowned, free-roaming cats in New York City. Trap-neuter-return programs can help sterilize and manage feral and stray populations in the city.

Some free-roaming cats in New York City are parasite ‘super-shedders,’ study shows

Alex Megerle 6 Aug 2026
Black-footed cats (Felis nigripes) in southern Namibia. Image courtesy of Alex Sliwa

Africa’s smallest wildcat found using abandoned rodent burrows to raise kittens

Mongabay.com 28 Jul 2026
An adult cheetah spotted at a monitoring site in Limpopo Province. In the background is a still closed trap cage, which was placed there during the census to capture cheetahs for collaring. Image courtesy of the Ashia Cheetah Conservation.

South Africa’s free-roaming cheetahs in steep decline, first national census finds

Victoria Schneider 15 Jul 2026
Gus Mills with a cheetah. Sourced via the Endangered Wildlife Trust

Gus Mills, hyena expert and ‘the cheerful pessimist of the Kalahari’, has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jul 2026
Pallas’s cat, also known as the manul, roam widely across Central Asia and are present in 16 countries. Image by Richard Gillin via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Meme-face Pallas’s cat traverses a complex conservation landscape

Sean Mowbray 10 Jul 2026

Iran rearrests prominent conservationists freed just two years ago

Naina Rao 3 Jul 2026

Telling one guiña from another: It’s all about the angle

Sean Mowbray 29 Jun 2026
While caracals are classified as species of least concern overall, some populations are seriously declining, with some local extinctions; rodenticides join habitat loss, hunting, conflict with humans and other threats to their survival.

Rodent-killing baits threaten small wild cats and other wildlife

Sean Mowbray 23 Jun 2026
A marbled cat captured on camera trap in Nagaland. Image by Giridhar Malla.

Community-led initiatives safeguard marbled cats in northeast India

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2026
A desert pampas cat (Leopardus garleppi). A genetic study caused researchers to raise an alarm over a small, unique, dry mangrove-adapted population being genetically unhealthy, putting it at risk for local extinction. Image courtesy of the Peruvian Desert Cat Project.

Genetic study reveals extinction risk for unique mangrove-adapted pampas cat

Sean Mowbray 5 Jun 2026

In Thailand, burned sugarcane plantations become traps for leopard cat cubs

Ana Norman Bermúdez 15 May 2026
Awareness of leopard cats is generally low across their range, as they are small, difficult to spot, and are sometimes mistaken for domesticated cats or leopard cubs.

Asia’s mainland leopard cat is abundant but still cloaked in mystery

Annelise Giseburt 11 May 2026
A European wildcat in Scotland, where 46 captive-bred wildcats have been released as part of an ongoing reintroduction project. The cats are repopulating former habitat in the Cairngorms mountain range in the eastern highlands.

The European wildcat hovers between recovery and local extinction

Sean Mowbray 11 May 2026
A brown hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou vestitus), La Ilusion Nature Reserve, Colombia.

As global 30×30 goal lags, Colombia shows how progress can be made

Ruth Kamnitzer 27 Apr 2026
Mountain gorilla silverback in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. Image by Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo.

Mongabay launches Solutions Desk to track what works for the planet

Mongabay.com 7 Apr 2026
Research shows that a koala’s gut microbiome directly influences its diet limitations, determining the species of eucalyptus it can eat. Translocations and reintroductions should take this relationship into account, says Michaela Blyton. Image by Mathias Appel via Flickr (CC0 1.0).

Poop pills and gut microbes: Wildlife microbiome studies aid conservation

Sean Mowbray 26 Mar 2026
A captive sand cat in Nushi, Pakistan. Illegal trade is occurring amid a paucity of information about population sizes of small cat populations, says Sheikh. “It's going under the radar to a big extent, and hardly anything is being done to actively stop it or to mitigate this threat.”

Big cats get the press, but small wildcats are being poached and trafficked in silence

Sean Mowbray 25 Feb 2026
Black-footed cats (Felis nigripes) in southern Namibia. Image courtesy of Alex Sliwa

Rodent burrows offer unusual sanctuary to Africa’s smallest wildcat

María de los Ángeles Orfila 9 Feb 2026
The African golden cat (Caracal aurata) is a medium-sized felid (though it’s classified as one of the world’s 33 small cat species). In Echuya Forest, it’s the largest predator remaining due to the extirpation of leopards from that forest.

Small cat conservationists hail Uganda’s new Echuya Forest National Park

Sean Mowbray 11 Dec 2025
Image of cheetahs, by zgmorris13 via Pixabay (CC0).

International Cheetah Day: Survival still at stake for the world’s fastest cat

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2025
Asian golden cat caught on camera in Nepal.

Asian golden cat range expands, but declines continue amid rising threats

Sean Mowbray 7 Nov 2025

IUCN downgrades guiña threat status, prompting conservation warning

Sean Mowbray 10 Oct 2025
A fishing cat photographed feeding on a monitor lizard near Pirkhali, a part of Sajnekhali Wildlife Sanctuary, in the Indian Sundarbans. Image courtesy of Soumyadip Santra.

Rare photos capture fishing cat preying on monitor lizard in the Sundarbans

Mongabay.com 29 Sep 2025

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