The Florida panther stands as close to disappearing as any living thing on the planet. About 80 to 100 panthers remain, three times the number that existed barely a decade ago. But the controversial breeding program that saved the panther from extinction has ushered in a new era of greater problems and tougher solutions.

For the first time in more than 20 years, a South China tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis) has been spotted in the wild. Guan Ke, officer of the Propaganda Center of the Shangxi Province Forestry Bureau confirmed the sighting by an eyewitness of a single South China tiger in the Qinling Moutains in the Northwest province of Shanxi.

A South China tiger has been caught on camera by a hunter-turned-farmer, the first confirmed sighting for 30 years of a sub-species experts had feared was extinct in the wild, the Xinhua news agency said on Friday.

It's the Anatolian Shepherd, a breed that originated in Turkey, that the National Cheetah Management Project has selected to serve farmers in South Africa to protect their livestock from cheetahs.

With the tiger (Panthera Tigris) disappearing from Sariska and precariously placed in Ranthambhore and Bandhavgarh, forest officials are tight-lipped on their numbers in the Dudhwa tiger reserve in the Terai region of Uttar Pradesh.

The destroyed stock included skin of leopard, snow leopard, fox, leopard cats, snow lynx, brown bear stone martins, otters, wolves and fishing cats.

One of the smallest sub-species of tiger in the world, the Malayan Tiger is facing a great threat from this human-tiger conflict when they seek food in human habitats, since their own have been encroached and they face retaliatory attacks and massacres by local communities.

The sabretooth tiger may have looked a fearsome sight with its massive canines but its reputation takes something of a knock with a new piece of research.

The saber-toothed cat just lost some of its swagger. Long considered a most fearsome predator among Ice Age giants, at least one species of saber-tooth bit more like a "pussycat," new research suggests.

Despite their 7-inch canines, sharp claws and strong limbs, saber-toothed cats delivered a surprisingly wimpy bite, concludes a new study.

In public imagination, the sabre-toothed cat Smilodon ranks alongside Tyrannosaurus rex as the ultimate killing machine. Powerfully built, with upper canines like knives, Smilodon was a fearsome predator of Ice-Age America's lost giants.

The refuge is considered one of the most biologically diverse wildlife sanctuaries in the nation and environmentalists say the fence could harm endangered species such as ocelots and jaguarundi found there.

Researchers examined the genetic structure of mountain lions from six areas of Texas, conducting DNA analysis of tissue samples from 89 lions.

Sebeka table wines, produced in Swartland, South Africa and imported into the United States by E. & J. Gallo Winery, has begun a program of support for cheetah conservation through the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre near Kruger National Park.