NEWSLINK: Persian leopard conservation in Iran

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NEWSLINK: 3 Threats to Big Cats Today and What You Can Do To Help

3 Threats to Big Cats Today and What You Can Do To HelpOne Green Planet

There is a large population of big cats that are affected by the exotic pet trade in the United States. They are popular among the affluent, as they are a ...

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NEWSLINK: Panama signs up to jaguar conservation

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NEWSLINK: Big cat crisis: lion populations dwindling in Africa

Big cat crisis: lion populations dwindling in Africa
By Mihai Andrei
If things continue to move in this direction, a few decades from now, we will be living in a world with only a handful of tigers: just over 3000 tigers rem.

NEWSLINK: Tiger spotting

Tiger spotting
Times of India
Not only is it common to watch the big cat even in winter (though April-June is the perfect time), one hears stories of tigers preying in front of a jeep full of visitors. You just don't want to consider yourself the rare, unlucky one. Yet, the fact ...

NEWSLINK: Ministries on opposite side of fence over tigers, tribals

Ministries on opposite side of fence over tigers, tribals
Hindustan Times
interference) for the big cat without settling the rights of locals. The environment ministry had provided for this inviolate space as a mandatory condition to regulate tourism in tiger reserves. The rules were notified despite a dissent note of the ...

NEWSLINK: World's Largest Tiger Reserve 'Bereft of Cats'

World's Largest Tiger Reserve 'Bereft of Cats'
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
Her bleak assessment was made after numerous local animal trackers told her they haven't seen tiger paw prints or other signs of big cat life in the valley for several years. “The hunters have told me there are no more tigers left,” said Bauk Jar ...

NEWSLINK: Canada Lynx conservation in USA

Helping To Save The Canada Lynx
WGRZ-TV
The Canada Lynx is one of the last of the big wild cats left in the United States. Although their population is robust in Northern Canada, their numbers are considered endangered in the States, with only a few hundred in the wild. In East Aurora, Hawk ...

NEWSLINK: Tiger tourism in the Sunderbans

Spurt in tiger sighting draws tourists to Sunderbans
Times of India
Two successive tiger sightings at Pirkhali on Saptami and Ashthami led to a cheer among tourists, most of whom return disappointed from Sunderbans where spotting a big cat is a rare occurrence. On Monday, yet another tiger was sighted near Dobanki.

NEWSLINK: Tiger Conservation

Ghettoisation of tigers possible says WII
Hindustan Times
The study conducted as part of new estimation of big cat population in the tiger reserves across India is a huge fillip to wildlife researchers as it shows that India can provide home to around 70% of world's tiger population (around 3,200) by 2020 ...

NEWSLINK: Conservation of snow leopards

Snow leopards: Love of wild cats takes Great Falls man to China
Great Falls Tribune
“My dream had always been working on big cats,” he said. That dream recently became a reality when Weckworth was hired in May to do snow leopard research in China and elsewhere in Asia with a nongovernmental organization called Panthera. Panthera ...

NEWSLINK: More on USA Jaguar conservation

Cat Fight: Environmentalists and ranchers at odds over jaguar land
KVOA Tucson News
TUCSON- The jaguar is an animal surrounded by mystery, but now the endangered species is also surrounded by controversy. The Center for Biological Diversity is pressing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to set aside millions of acres of land in ...

NEWSLINK: Leopard trapped in India

Leopard trapped near Nashik village
The Statesman
The big cat was trapped in a cage put up in sugarcane field near village Kothure in Niphad taluka of this North Maharashtra district yesterday, forest officer Mr P V Jadhav said today. The forest department swung into action after receiving several ...

NEWSLINK: More on US Ocelot conservation

Dodgers MVP sues Eagle Ford Shale over ocelots
San Antonio Express
There are believed to be only 50 ocelots left living in the United States. The notice of intent to sue stated that “multiple big cat tracks” were located and photographed as recently as June, and Beckett observed ocelots on his property as recently as ...

NEWSLINK: Ban lifted on tiger tourism

SC lifts ban on Tiger tourism
Daily Bhaskar
Stepping in to conserve the big cat, the Supreme Court had on July 24 ordered banning all tourism activities in any of the core zones of tiger reserves across the country. The Apex Court also asked the Centre to notify within a week fresh guidelines ...

India Lifts Tiger Tourism Ban But Paws Remain Out International Business Times Is a ban on so-called “tiger tourism” good for the big cat's dwindling population? That was the question at hand as India's Supreme Court made its highly anticipated ruling on the matter on Tuesday. India Lifts Tiger Tourism Ban But Paws Remain Out ... ndian Court Lifts Tourist Ban in Deep Tiger Reserve Areas Bloomberg India, home to the world's largest number of wild tigers, is trying to protect the big cats from habitat destruction and poachers engaged in illegal trade of skin and body parts. Travel Operators for Tigers, a lobby group, says a ban would dent India's ...

NEWSLINK: New software to help monitor big cat conservation

New software to help monitor big cat conservation » OnlySoftwareBlog
By Amrinder
The Monitoring system for Tigers Intensive Patrolling and Ecological Status (MSTrIPes), the software will be used to keep a track on patrols in protected areas and also help identify vulnerable points inside such areas. Big cat scientist at the WII ...

NEWSLINK: Indian Tiger Protection Force

Madhya Pradesh yet to form tiger protection force
Times of India
BHOPAL: A Special Tiger Protection Force (SPTF), aimed at protecting the big cats from poachers, is yet to be constituted and deployed in Madhya Pradesh- the state that has lost it's tag of "Tiger State". A directive from the Prime Minister's Office ...

NEWSLINK: Conservation of Amur leopard

Amur Leopard found in the border region of China, North Korea and ...
By robert neff
The Amur Leopard is one of the most endangered big cats in the world. According to Xinhua (copied at ALTA -photo credit Xinhua) the above leopard was discovered in Changbai Mountain in Wangqing county in April this year and is only the ...

NEWSLINK: Tiger poaching in India

Tiger hides with gunshot wounds found, three held
Times of India
This is for the first time in the recent times that the poachers had used guns to kill the big cats in the state, apparently after catching the forest ground duty staffers' napping in the wild. Before this, there had been cases of tiger poaching with ...

NEWSLINK: Tourists banned from India's tiger reserves

Tourists Banned From India's Tiger Reserves
North Country Public Radio
Up until the late 1960s, big game hunters trod the forests of Rajasthan's Ranthambore National Park, part of a sprawling tiger reserve southwest of Delhi. Under the court's recent ban, spotting one of India's big cats — a tiger or the more elusive ...