Thursday, 7 January 2016

NEWSLINK: Cougar killed 
on Redlands 
had little fear

Fresh snow and a sharp-eyed witness enabled Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife officials to put down a mountain lion Tuesday night on the Redlands, but there’s no all-clear on the horizon.


“We still have a couple mountain lions I’m watching” in the Redlands area, said JT Romatzke, the Grand Junction Area wildlife manager for CPW.

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NEWSLINK: Big cats seen in Durango, New Mexico

Big cats have been spotted a little too close to home lately.


A mountain lion has people in Durango a little nervous. According to the Durango Herald, it’s been spotted a lot in the Junction Creek area over the last few weeks. One resident saw it feeding on a deer on the side of a highway.

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Tuesday, 5 January 2016

UK SIGHTING: Locals terrified after another sighting of the 'Beast of Bolton' with 'greedy yellow eyes'

New sightings of the 'Beast of Bolton' have been reported by terrified locals in the northern town.
Several reports of a giant cat prowling the streets at night have been recorded by townsfolk, with the latest claiming the animal is the "size of a car bonnet".

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ARTICLE: 17,000 dogs in Corbett a big threat to its big cats

The thriving big cat population at the Jim Corbett National Park might be a show piece for successful conservation, but the famous wild life sanctuary's tigers and leopards might be at risk from canine diseases from some 17,000-odd dogs living in villages in the 5km buffer zone.

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Sunday, 3 January 2016

NEWSLINK: Woodward Park evacuated after mountain lion spotted

A day at the park interrupted for visitors at Woodward Park as a big cat apparently made a brief appearance.


Park employees and Fresno Police evacuated the park for a couple hours after the sighting Thursday morning. A woman spotted the big cat near the BMX area and she took pictures. But after that, the animal vanished.

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ARTICLE: BioPark doing big part to save threatened species

Snow leopards, Socorro doves, Guam Micronesian kingfishers and slender-snouted crocodiles. None of them is native to New Mexico, or the United States for that matter, yet all are a little safer from extinction in this new year because of work being done at the Rio Grande Zoo in Albuquerque.

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ARTICLE: Florida Panther faces extinction

They’re the official state animal, yet the Florida panther is one of the most endangered species on Earth, with fewer than 180 of the big cats alive today. The breeding population of Florida panthers now exists only on the southern tip of the Sunshine State.

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