The Bush administration also cites the Jaguar Conservation Team as a replacement for critical habitat. Yet the team failed to fulfill its 1997 pledge “to coordinate protection of jaguar habitat.”

With tiger populations dwindling in recent years as a result of poaching, wildlife officials say hunters have increasingly set their sights on leopards, killing them for their skins as well as bones, claws and penises for use in traditional Asian medicines.

The lions in Basel Zoo are on the World Conservation Union's red list of endangered species because hunting has reduced their population in Namibia to a few hundred.

A dramatic decline in lynx reproduction the last two years won’t change the way federal agencies manage the rare wild cats in Colorado.

No kittens were found this year in lynx dens by the Colorado Division of Wildlife.

Among the carcasses piled in a refrigerated building at the tiger farm in Guilin, China, was a tiger that had been skinned and another that had been gutted.