The first ever photographs of a wild leopard with young in Cambodia show that a pioneering project is helping to conserve wildlife and support local livelihoods there. The photographs were taken by the animals themselves when they triggered camera traps that had been set up by wildlife biologists working with local community rangers.

Environmentalists have spent decades acquiring and preserving 90,000 riverfront acres of Texas scrub and forest and protecting their wildlife. They fear the hundreds of miles of border fences will undo their work and kill some land animals by cutting them off from the Rio Grande, the only source of fresh water. A fence also could prevent the ocelots and other animals from swimming across the water to mate with partners on the other side.

The Persian leopard (Panthera pardus tulliana), once widespread throughout this mountainous region between the Black and Caspian Seas, saw its numbers decline drastically by the 20th century due to poaching and habitat loss. It is believed that only a few leopards now inhabit the area.

These lions are leucistic and not albino. They have pigment visible in the eyes which may be the normal hazel or golden colour, blue-grey or green-grey, paw pads and lips. Inhibiting the deposition of pigment along the hair shaft, restricting it to the tips, the leucistic trait is due to the chinchilla mutation. Paler the lion, less the pigment is along the hair shaft. As a result white lions range from blonde through to near white.

The Rio Grande Valley is home to a diverse array of birds and wildlife, including the endangered ocelot and jaguarundi. With the construction of a fence, wildlife no longer would be able to cross the river to reach habitat in Mexico, and the construction process itself could diminish existing habitat, environmental groups say.

Unlike leopards, cats can change their spots. They do so erratically, and a successful cat watcher is always on the lookout for inexplicable spot shifting.

Refuge officials learned only a few weeks ago about plans to build some of barrier on refuge land, Merritt said. Those plans could be “fast tracked” because refuge lands are government owned, officials have confirmed.

The poaching of and trade in wild Sumatran tigers (panthera tigris Sumatraensis) in Jambi province continues, threatening the species with extinction, and official said Monday.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has targeted federal wildlife refuges for the initial construction of border fences, the regional head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed Tuesday.

Claudio Bertonatti, of the Argentina Wildlife Foundation, said that "if we maintain the environment for them, the jaguar has a chance. But in Argentina, in 200 years the forests and jungles went from 160 million to 33 million hectares. If we continue deforesting, all the efforts at reproduction in captivity will be useless."

He said the focus of the census would be primarily on tigers and vultures. Besides, fox, jungle cat, fishing cat, slop beer and Great Indian Bustard (bird) would also get special attention.

The world's most endangered cat species - the beautiful Amur or Far Eastern leopard - is on the very brink of extinction, with fewer than 35 believed to be still living in the wild.

The most optimistic figures from a recent census of the world's most endangered cat-the Amur or Far Eastern leopard-put the total count for those remaining in the wild at nine males, seven females without cubs, four females with cubs, six cubs in all and eight undefined tracks.

Following the April 18 announcement that only 25 to 34 of the Amur or Far Eastern leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) remain in the wild, World Wildlife Fund says the number must now be revised because a female Amur leopard was killed.

The leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) is a wild cat of Southeast Asia. It is also indigenous to Taiwan, where it is protected as an endangered species.

WWF reports that a female Far Eastern leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) was found brutally killed in Russia. The Far Eastern or Amur leopard is the world's rarest cat with a wild population numbering 25-34 individuals.

Population of leopards (Panthera pardus orientalis), inhabiting Russian Far East, amount to 25-34 giant cats, which is significantly under the minimum of 100 cats, required for species survival, report data of recent population survey, however, biologists claim cats have a chance to survive.

With only about 10 to 30 left in the wild and another 60 in captivity,the South China Tiger (panthera tigris amoyensis), from which other sub-species such as the Siberian Tiger evolved, has been listed as one of the world's ten most endangered animals.

Florida panthers, which measure about 7 feet long from nose to tail and weigh up to 150 pounds, normally eat deer, wild hogs, raccoons, alligators and wading birds. True wilderness animals, among the rarest creatures in North America, they have always had a reputation for avoiding the stink of humanity in their last decent habitat, the woods and swamps that remain in southwest Florida.

A new census of the world's most endangered cat, the Amur or Far Eastern leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis), shows that as few as 25 to 34 are left in the wild, renewing fears for the future of the species.

Faced with a shrinking domain and encroaching humans, the lions at Gir are hanging on to an impossibly small piece of their former territory.

As an itinerant traveller visiting the Bhitarkanika National Park in Orissa recently, I was decidedly lucky to escape the prowling eyes of a fishing cat, an endangered species rarely spotted in the wild.

China says lifting the domestic ban will help save wild tigers, a claim that has been rubbished by conservationists. China lifted the ban on bear bile 15 years ago and that has caused a near extinction of Russia's black bears in the wild.

For wildlife biologist Vidya Athreya, saving the much-misunderstood Indian leopard is a routine and a passion that has not stopped her from scrambling up trees and hiding in sugarcane fields to detect the nocturnal big cat.

Asiatic lions once roamed much of Asia but only about 350 remain, all of them in the Gir National Park, and the recent killings have raised fears for the future of the species.

Hopes of saving the world's most endangered cat were bolstered last week when five Iberian lynx were born in captivity in southern Spain.

Iran shelters the small surviving population, which experts hope to save

The Guyana Shield contains more than 25 per cent of the Earth's humid tropical rainforest, and almost 90 per cent of it is still in its pristine, natural state. The area also includes important populations of at least eight endangered species, such as the little spotted cat, leopardus tigrinus, the bush dog, speothos venaticus and the great-billed seed finch, oryzoborus maximiliani. Other endangered animals whose habitats are covered by the deal include the giant otter and the northern bearded saki monkey, as well as other well-known flagship species of the Amazon basin such as the jaguar, giant anteater and black spider monkey.