The stock surrendered by Kashmiri furriers under an agreement in the past two weeks includes skin and fur coats of rare species like clouded leopards and tiger which are found in geographical areas other than north India.

The body regulating wildlife trade told China on Wednesday it should stop breeding tigers for traditional medicine.

Scientists captured a wild Indo-Chinese tiger on film in a nature reserve in China’s southeastern Yunnan Province.

Organizations have sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff urging him to consider the environmental impact of constructing a fence on the Texas-Mexico border, and asking his department to consult with environmental and local officials on construction plans.

Contraceptive implants have long-term impact on zoo tiger reproduction.

We had been roaming the Gir forest, the lion’s domain, for a good three hours without any luck.

For the first time ever, scientists recently captured clear footage of a wild Indo-Chinese tiger in a nature reserve in China’s southeastern Yunnan Province.

Thee government has ditched plans to build a 300-kilometre motorway between Andalucía and central Spain over fears colonies of the endangered Iberian lynx were at risk.

Whether or not panthers, cougars or some other large cat actually live in Morehouse Parish has been a matter of contention for years.

Pressure on natural resources and biodiversity in Mexico's Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve has been reduced as a result of the emigration of half its human inhabitants -- some 50,000 people -- to the United States.

Four thousand miles east of Moscow, Zov Tigra National Park, translating to "Roar of the Tiger," became the first protected area of its kind in the Russian Far East.

Delegates at the ongoing meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES in The Hague, Netherlands, today overwhelmingly rejected an American proposal to remove the bobcat (Lynx rufus) from protection under the CITES Appendices. The proposal was defeated by a majority of more than two to one.

Appearance of the leopard (Panthera pardus)—enlisted as endangered species by the Zoological Survey of India and as a Schedule I mammal under the nation's Wildlife Protection Act—belies Tata aig Risk Management Services Ltd’s environment impact assessment (eia) report.

Recent years have seen the extinction of two sub-species of Indonesian tiger, the Caspian Tiger from western Central Asia, a sub-species of clouded leopard from Taiwan, and the Barbary lion from the wild in North Africa. Meanwhile, populations of the Iberian lynx, Asiatic cheetah and Amur leopard have fallen so low that they would be functionally extinct without current conservation efforts.

The 95-acre cat sanctuary in the Dunlap foothills boasts an array of exotic cats, including tigers, cheetahs, leopards and jaguars. All are housed in a natural setting that offers visitors up-close-and-personal interaction with felines from all over the world.