The Villamanrique-El Rocio road in the protected Doñana National Park has claimed the lives of 500 animals since its construction in 2001, including at least two lynx (Lynx pardus).

In a victory for Spain's critically endangered Iberian lynx, the European Commission is charging the Andalusian government before the European Court of Justice for building a highway that divides the lynx's territory in two.

When completed, the new reproduction centre, the first of its kind in Portugal, will be able to house 16 Iberian Lynxes, donated by the reproduction centre at Doñana Park, Andalucía in Spain.

The U.S.-Mexican border fence, which could be ramrodded past environmental laws, would set back decades of wildlife conservation.

The number of cougar sightings appears to be on the rise throughout the Bow Valley and Alberta, but researchers are struck by just how infrequently the big cats actually attack people.

They are at risk partly because disease has killed their main prey, rabbits. But environmentalists say what really threatens them is that the wetlands of this national park are drying out.

The country with the largest tiger population is the USA, but if you want to see one in the wild, you have to go to India - and you have to go soon.

The charisma of the tiger has inspired poets, persuaded nations to adopt it as their emblem, and sold everything from gasoline to sport merchandise and confectionery. Yet universal appeal has not assured the survival of the tiger in the wild.

Almost three years after the disappearance of tigers from the Sariska Tiger Reserve in Alwar district of Rajasthan, the leopard has taken over as the apex animal.

Efforts to protect many of the world’s largest and most endangered wild relatives of cats and dogs recently moved a step closer to victory with a congressional hearing on the “Great Cats and Rare Canids” bill.

The Portuguese and Spanish governments signed an agreement in Lisbon on August 31 to cooperate on a breeding programme in Portugal to help prevent the extinction of the Iberian lynx.

Groups hoping to preserve habitat for endangered species like the jaguar, and a southern Arizona Indian tribe concerned about preserving burial sites and other cultural artifacts, say the environmental review process is being sidestepped.

Herrick and his colleagues use the ovaries to improve reproduction in five small-sized wildcat species: Brazil's ocelot, Mongolia's Pallas cat, Thailand's fishing cat, and Africa's sand cats and black-footed cats.

Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris sumatrae) were also on the brink of extinction on Sumatra Island, and its population was only around 400 heads currently.

India's plan to fence its border with Bangladesh is posing a serious threat to several endangered wildlife species in the Dampa tiger reserve in Mizoram.

'Rewilding' North America would bring back lions, elephants, camels and more.

In areas with vast expanses of land where prey is abundant, is where the cheetah strives.

It has been over a decade that the scientists at CCMB are talking of cloning a cheetah to revive a species that became extinct in India more than four decades ago.

Its habitats include desert and steppe that provide homes to hyenas, gazelles, Persian leopards, and Asiatic cheetahs, which Iranian conservationists are battling to protect.

New research at the University of Glasgow has found that arthritis in cats is far more common than previously thought.

The expedition she went on — Argentina’s Mysterious Cats — is one of many available to Earthwatch volunteers.

Europe's most exotic feline is on the brink of extinction. In an attempt to find out why, Richard Grant unravels a disturbing tale of artificially introduced diseases, bureaucratic incompetence, drunken pilgrims and roads that do not officially exist