SIGHTING EUROPE: Hungry lynx wanders into Polish town

Lynx Effect
Austrian Times
It's the real-life lynx effect - as a town's street's empty while a hungry big cat prowls the streets looking for food. The feline intruder wandered into Zegiestowie, Poland, in broad daylight after emerging from its normal habitat among the peaks of a ...

NEWSLINK: Leopard hunt continues, team seeks more equipment

Leopard hunt continues, team seeks more equipment
Indian Express
The big cat was first spotted in a pear orchard at Kadian village on November 11, and the forest department has not been able to trap it to date. Now the experts involved in this operation have sought more tranquilizer guns and even night-vision cameras.

MATT SALUSBURY: Skull of Barbary lion (maneless lion) once kept in Tower of London managerie goes on show at NHM London

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/nov/25/natural-history-museum-gal
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Skull of Barbary lion (maneless lion) once kept in Tower of London
managerie goes on show at NHM London

MATT SALUSBURY: Huge feral cat in Oregon

Huge feral domestic cat(?) found stuck in DOG-flap and taken into Oregon animal shelter (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN7eXTz35dI&feature=related

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 ...

SIGHTING USA: Rhode Island cougar

Resident Claims Mountain Lion Spotted Middletown
Patch.com
Although the idea seems far-fetched, a recent report is not the first time a Rhode Island resident has claimed to see a large cat. Middletown Police received a report from a woman who believes she saw a mountain lion near the NEX store on Green Lane ...

newslink: Minister's remarks defending tribal rights kick up row

Minister's remarks defending tribal rights kick up row
Daily Pioneer
Experts and MoEF sources have retorted back, saying that while both the Wildlife Act and the Forest Rights Act provide for resettlement of people, large endangered species as big cats certainly need to be conserved in inviolate areas wherever they are ...