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Umit, an adult female Amur tiger, recently released into Ile-Balkhash State Nature Reserve in southeastern Kazakhstan. Image courtesy of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources.

Kazakhstan releases first tiger into the wild in 70 years

Yenni Kwok 10 Aug 2026

On the frontlines of conservation in Sumatra: Rangers safeguard Batutegi forest

Basten Gokkon 7 Aug 2026
A Bengal tiger in Nepal's Terai Arc Landscape.

Nepal’s newest national parks drive tiger recovery, but new concerns arise

Abhaya Raj Joshi 5 Aug 2026

Investigation exposes Cambodia’s illegal wildlife trade linked to transnational crime

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2026

International Tiger Day: A complex landscape of recovery, conflict, and empty forests

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2026
Tigers are territorial and must strike out to find their own territory when they leave their mothers at 18 months-two years of age and adult cats require large home ranges, making safe pathways between protected areas critical for their survival. Image © Steve Winter/Big Cat Voices.

India’s tiger numbers are rising. Protecting their pathways is next

Nirmal Ghosh 28 Jul 2026
Tigers in Rajasthan, India. The country is a stronghold of wild tigers, and the report found that most of the wild tigers smuggled into Cambodia came from India.

Report reveals Cambodia’s appetite for tigers, rhinos and other endangered wildlife

Spoorthy Raman 21 Jul 2026
Investigators with Agent C Wildlife Initiative documented a baby pangolin available for sale in Vientiane's Dongmakkhay Market. Pangolins are repeatedly sold for their meat, scales and sometimes for making wine. Image supplied by Agent C Wildlife Initiative.

Laos’s illegal wildlife shops keep growing despite enforcement, investigators find

Gerald Flynn 15 Jul 2026
The rescued tiger at Khulna Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center. Image courtesy of the Bangladesh Forest Department.

Bangladesh gets ready for its first release of tiger rescued from poachers’ trap

Abu Siddique 10 Jul 2026
Mel Sunquist

Mel Sunquist, field biologist and mentor to generations of conservationists

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jun 2026
A Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) in India. Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Cambodia wants its tigers back. So it plans to import Bengal tigers from India

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Jun 2026
Sok Pheap climbs a tree to tap resin.

Bengal tigers in Cambodia? Reintroduction plan raises questions

Arathi Menon, Andy Ball 4 Jun 2026
Image of women look after their cattle on the fringes of Bardiya National Park.

Rural women at increasing risk of human-wildlife conflict in Nepal

Mongabay.com 21 May 2026

Nepal proposes park for ‘problem’ tigers amid rising conflicts

Mongabay.com 21 May 2026

Nepal plans park for ‘problem’ tigers as attacks raise concerns

Abhaya Raj Joshi, Mukesh Pokhrel 24 Apr 2026
Schaller with a peccary. Courtesy of the George B. Schaller Archive.

George Schaller: The field biologist who helped redefine conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Apr 2026
A woman with her goats in the buffer area. Image by Tulsi Rauniyar for Mongabay.

Nepal’s rural women at increasing risk of human-wildlife conflict

Tulsi Rauniyar 18 Mar 2026
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By protecting tigers ‘we save so much more,’ says Debbie Banks

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Mar 2026
Screenshot of Amur tigress and her five cubs, courtesy of Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park.

Camera traps in China capture first-ever footage of Amur tigress with five cubs

Spoorthy Raman 2 Jan 2026
Previously undetected in other protected areas, a tigress known as SWT001F was the first individual tiger captured on camera in Thailand's Sisawat Non-Hunting Area in 2024. Panthera, Thailand's DNP and other partners are working to monitor and protect Indochinese tigers and their prey in this region where camera traps have shown tigers are using Sisawat forest as a corridor. Currently plans exist to propose the adjoining forest area to the east as an extension of Sisawat.

Hope for tigers grows as Thailand safeguards a key link in their habitat

Gloria Dickie 16 Dec 2025
A female tiger. Tigers were among the first few species added to CITES Appendix I in 1975 to halt the illegal trade of tigers and their parts.

Global tiger trafficking crisis worsens with nine big cats seized monthly

Associated Press 25 Nov 2025
Tiger on a rock.

Amid challenges, Nepal plans its latest tiger & rhino counts

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 1 Oct 2025

Indonesia aims to redraw UNESCO site boundaries to allow geothermal projects

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Sep 2025
A captive Sumatran tiger.

International Tiger Day: 3 stories of hope

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jul 2025
Valmik Thapar. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters

Valmik Thapar, India’s tiger man, died on May 31st, aged 73

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 May 2025
Community rangers guard elephants in Sera Conservancy, Northern Rangelands, Kenya.

Wildlife crime crackdown in jeopardy worldwide after US funding cuts

Carolyn Cowan, Philip Jacobson, Spoorthy Raman, Charles Mpaka, Hans Nicholas Jong, Gerald Flynn 22 May 2025

Sumatran tiger protection needs more patrols, tougher penalties, study finds

Basten Gokkon 15 May 2025
A wild boar at Parsa National Park.

Study reveals untold, and unprotected, wildlife wealth of Nepal’s Madhesh province

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 May 2025
A Sumatran tiger killed by a snare in Mandailing Natal district, North Sumatra province. Image by Ayat S Karokaro.

Indonesia court hands down ‘heaviest sentence’ yet for tiger poacher in Sumatra

Ayat S. Karokaro 23 Apr 2025
Sumatran tigers are critically endangered.

Snared, skinned, sold: Brutal March for Indonesia’s Sumatran tigers

Junaidi Hanafiah, Rahmi Carolina, Vinolia 10 Apr 2025
Scarecrow to protect a fields and crops. Image by Tulsi Rauniyar for Mongabay..

Photos: The volunteers standing guard at one of Nepal’s human-wildlife frontiers

Tulsi Rauniyar 9 Apr 2025
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

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