A tiger in the jungles of Indonesia has defied the odds and managed to survive, despite losing one of its front feet in a snare laid by poachers.

The Sumatran tiger is the most critically subspecies of endangered tiger, with fewer than 400 individuals left in Sumatra, it last remaining refuge in the wild.

A THREE-LEGGED Sumatran tiger - believed wounded by a villager's snare - has been spotted in an Indonesian conservation park.

A rare Sumatran tiger that appears to have lost a paw while escaping a hunter's snare has been caught on camera in an Indonesian national park.

Four pictures captured by WWF´s camera trap in March inside Tesso Nilo National Park in central Sumatra show a male tiger missing the lower half of his right front leg.

The UN body regulating wildlife commerce rebuked China for large-scale tiger farming Wednesday and cautioned Beijing not to lift a domestic ban on the trade in products made from tiger parts.

The two-week long meeting over Cites, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, agreed that "tigers should not be bred for trade in their parts and derivatives", according to a statement.

China also has suggested that captive tigers could be returned to the jungle, though experts say inbred cats have no hunting skills and cannot survive on their own.

China has about 5,000 tigers held in captive enclosures - more animals than remain in the wild. The government is considering whether to re-open the domestic market in tiger products for traditional medicine.

In their songs, the Masai tribesmen of East Africa have long celebrated the killing of lions as a test of their manhood.

On the vast plains of southern Kenya, an ancient conflict between man and lion has been soothed under a program that compensates Maasai herders for livestock killed by some of Africa’s last free-roaming prides.

Farm seizures ordered by Robert Mugabe's regime seven years ago triggered massive attacks on wildlife and a huge decline in numbers on private farms and conservancies.

The beautiful, smaller cousin of the leopard used to range in the thousands through Texas and parts of Arizona, Arkansas and Louisiana, but the species has all but disappeared thanks to hunting, habitat loss and inbreeding.

A photo making e-mail rounds Thursday that shows what looks like a big, rare cat in a Sidney backyard is real, according to the Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife spokesman.

Figures compiled by Delhi-based Wildlife Protection Society of India shows 226 incidents of leopard deaths and skin seizures across the country in 2006.

Endangered wildcats — ocelots and jaguarundi — lurk secretively, roaming across the Rio Grande through a dense canopy of rare sabal palms, mesquites, thorny Texas ebonies and Montezuma baldcypress. The tangled haven of woodlands, marsh and desert entices rare birds and butterflies that beckon tourists from all over the world.

Under the federal Real ID Act, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has the authority to waive environmental laws like the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.

Today's domestic cats can be traced to wild progenitors that interbred well over 100,000 years ago, new research indicates.

A new study traces the domestication of house cats to the emergence of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent some 10,000 years ago--not Egypt as previously presumed.

Garfield, Morris and the Aristocats get the fame, but look to the origins of today's furry felines and you find "lybica," a Middle Eastern wildcat.

To survive an encounter with a mountain lion requires a little knowledge and a level head. The knowledge is the easier part.

Tough times may be ahead for cougars (Puma concolor) in Oregon. A law signed 27 June will bring back hound-hunting of the big cats with the goal of killing animals that might attack people or livestock. Scientists say the new law, in conjunction with a Cougar Management Plan developed by the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), may backfire as a way to control the predators. It also essentially overturns a measure enacted by voters in 1994 that prohibits the use of packs of hounds to hunt cougars.