Thailand's network of parks could support 2,000 tigers, reports a new study by Thailand's Department of National Park, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation and the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society.

Preventing tropical deforestation must be one of the major targets if mankind is to have any chance of reducing the impacts of climate change and avoiding massive biodiversity loss.

With his eyes open for little more than a day, an 11-day old cub, the newest addition to one of the world's rarest cat species, the South China tiger, was revealed at his birthplace in South Africa.

In a rare success for India's embattled conservationists, police in the city of Allahabad raided a meeting Tuesday of suspected poachers, traders and couriers who were negotiating over three tiger pelts and skeletons.

Tibetan men are draped in the gleaming pelts — worth nearly $10,000 each on the black market — of a creature wildlife experts worry may be on its last legs.

The birth is very significant and important for the species. There are only 26 Brazilian ocelots in American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) institutions nationwide. The birth is also notable because of the passing on of Itirapua’s vital founder stock genetic diversity.

The Indian media are obsessed with numbers. Worse still, the obsession is restricted to the numbers of only one species, the tiger. For better or for worse, the tiger has become the poster child for conservation in India.

In Jeli, a tiger monitoring study over nine months has been completed to ascertain the numbers and activity of resident tigers in the area, the density of the tiger population, their minimum home range, prey base and other pertinent information such as land use in the affected area.

In China, photos of an 'extinct' tiger revive conservationists’ hopes. But are they fakes?

Pictures of extinct tiger species are shown up as fake

A recent discovery of cat bones in a grave, which also contained other animals, shows evidence that cats were first domesticated in ancient Egypt around 5,700 years ago.