ARTICLE: Dwindling forest cover - struggle for survival

With dwindling forest cover, many places across Karnataka have been troubled by human-animal conflicts. Pavan Kumar H takes a look at the Sandur region, which recently saw a series of human-leopard encounters


For the last two months, around 20 forest guards, armed with sticks, a ‘locked’ gun and two tranquiliser guns, have been patrolling the forests of Sushilnagar in Sandur taluk of Ballari district in teams.

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NEWSLINK: Endangered Florida Panthers Need ‘Critical Habitat’ Now

With more than 20 million residents, Florida is booming in both job growth and population growth. The state’s booming health is spelling bad news for wildlife habitat. The situation for Florida panthers has gotten so bad that U.S. Rep Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., is calling the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to designate “critical habitat” for them now.

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ARTICLE: Big Cats and People Live in Close Quarters in India

The numbers of large carnivores, especially leopards, are increasing in private lands and lands outside the protected-area systems in India, bringing new challenges for coexistence.

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ARTICLE: Photographer spends ten years capturing incredible sepia portraits of big cats

This series of spectacular sepia shots gives a stunning insight into the lives of the big cats at a Macedonian zoo - where a dedicated photographer spent 10 years recording their behaviour.


Photographer Goran Anastasovski devoted a decade of his life to taking snapshots of the lions, tigers and leopards when at their most unguarded and intimate.

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NEWSLINK: Claws out over big cat's ordeal

Kruger National Park rangers alerted by tourists sedated an injured lion with a dart gun on Tuesday so that they could remove a poacher's snare from around its neck.


The lion was treated by a vet and released.

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NEWSLINK: Unusual Litter Mates Being Raised Together At Six Flags Great Adventure

Spots and stripes have taken over the nursery at Six Flags Great Adventure’s safari as the veterinary team welcomes a Siberian tiger cub, the first tiger birth at the safari in 13 years, and an African lion cub. What makes the situation so unique is that for the first time, the team is hand-raising the two fuzzy, female “big cats” as one litter, despite being two species that would typically never meet in the wild since they are native to different continents.

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NEWSLINK: Cougars possibly living in Alabama

This was the headline last week from the state wildlife service. Here are their comments.

“The state investigates all reported sightings, but there hasn’t been any documented evidence of a big cat in Alabama since 1947, when a Florida panther was killed in Chilton County. The last verified cougar in Alabama was killed in St. Clair County over 50 years ago.

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