The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column-inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy
Lindsay Black can’t prove that a black panther crossed his path on a bridleway near Clanfield a fortnight ago.
More daylight big cat sightings were reported in 2017 – and they were nearer human habitation a Gloucestershire big cat tracker has said.
The carcass of a tigress dumped overnight Sunday in a toilet of the forest range office in Dabra in Uttarakhand’s Almora forest division before a post-mortem was conducted Monday afternoon has sparked a row with wildlife activists criticizing the act of carelessness.
After much planning and negotiations, Odisha will start getting the tigers from Madhya Pradesh (MP) for the Satkosia Tiger Reserve starting June.
Kids want to be close to animals. Zookeepers know this, which is why they put up signs and walls to keep little humans and predators apart. Even so, sometimes nature and family collide. A rather remarkable video of such an event just surfaced. In it, a family exits a vehicle inside a wildlife park in Hollard to take pictures of big cats. Several cheetahs, seeing this, immediately go into hunt mode. No one dies, but it’s a narrow miss.
Three two-month old tiger cubs melted hearts of zoo-goers with their first public appearance since their birth.
A troubled big cat park in Northland has been closed to the public for years, with its population of lions and tigers in decline. Harrison Christian goes inside Kamo Wildlife Sanctuary as it gears up for a re-opening, which the park's founder claims he'll fight to stop.
Of the five tigers that died in Uttarakhand this year, three were sub-adults in the age group of 2-3 years, prompting wildlife activists to pitch for a strategy for the conservation of young big cats.
A tiger reportedly mauled its keeper to death at a Chinese wildlife park which has previously been accused of involvement in a disturbing trade in tiger bone wine.
The rules of nature are set, and so is the role of every animal in it. In their little herds and packs, each creature plays a certain role and does so, instinctively. The father, mother, and children, all take over certain positions in their “families,” seldom rebelling against them.
A big day today at the Erie Zoo, with the opening of the new $700,000 lion exhibit.
When the animal turns to the right and starts to walk parallel to the observer, its gait does become a little more feline in appearance (leading to all the confusion!) but conveniently for us, at this point in the video the animal's head and longer muzzle becomes less blurred, giving away the creature’s true identity as a Canid rather than a Felid, such as an escaped lion. 
Four tiger cubs - three males and a female - were born in the Crimean safari park "Taigan," the biggest one in Europe.
Mike Hodge was attacked by the big cat at the Makarele Predator Centre in Thabazimbi, South Africa, seconds after going into its enclosure.Three members of the same farming family are convinced they have seen a big cat in the South Hams – and wondered if it was connected to a recent attack on a sheep.On Wednesday Bex Fitch and her children CJ, 11, and Phoebe, six, had been enjoying an Easter holiday outing, visiting the beach and then driving up the Torrs as it was a nice evening.
Madhya Pradesh is all set to regain the status of ‘Tiger State’ with the increasing population of tigers in the state. It is the outcome of continuous efforts that a continuous rise has been registered in tigers’ population. Besides this, the state is also ensuring its contribution in increasing population in the country and it will provide three couples of tigers at Satkosia Wildlife Sanctuary in Odissa.The situation also leads to increasing number of territorial conflicts between tigers. The state took new initiatives of tigers’ translocation to new habitats. The state already set an example in the world with its successful tigers’ rehabilitation project at Panna Tiger Reserve. Now the reserve has population of 30-tigers.
After tracking Ranthambore’s famous matriarch for nine of her eventful 19 years, wildlife filmmaker S Nallamuthu explains his final shots of Machli’s death in markedly unsentimental terms. “The idea was to make sure the shots were taken properly. I couldn’t be sure just when she had passed away,” he says.
Camera trapping is likely to be used by next year to look out for tiger habitats at an altitude above 10,000 feet in India, Nepal, and Bhutan, experts associated with the project said.
Just a few years ago, the Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) appeared to be on the fast track to extinction. Surveys conducted in 2000 revealed that only about 30 of these critically endangered big cats remained in the forests of southwestern Russia, with just two more across the border in China. With poaching and habitat loss still so rampant at the time, saving the species appeared to be a “mission impossible,” says ecologist Yury Darman, senior advisor to WWF-Russia’s Amur branch.
Walking through a dense forest is like solving mysteries without knowing what you are looking for. Whether it is the forests of Nainital, the royal jungles of Ranthambhore, or the thick woods of Dandeli, you always just experience a small fraction of what it has to offer.
As one of Brazil’s apex predators there’s little that can give a jaguar paws for thought - except as it turns out, giant otters.
In a bid to explain how the big cats reach heavily populated areas in the city, officials have started a camera trapping exercise on the eastern and western peripheries of Sanjay Gandhi National Park, like the ongoing study at Aarey Colony