The south China tiger, a species native to south China but thought to be extinct in the wild, almost certainly still exist in the remote subtropical forests in the wild west, a group of scientists say.

Human activity is the principal cause of the US ocelot's woes, with farming and residential development increasingly pushing the creature into smaller pockets.

"In Scotland we've been striving to find a genetic marker to identify Scottish wildcats, and now we have one."

Al Ain zoo has successfully bred in captivity sand cats - an endangered smallest member of the Arabian cats' family.

The unexplained death of a breeding-age ocelot in southeast Texas has brought the endangered cat a step closer to extinction in the United States.