I remember the first time I saw a tiger in the wild. You are bound to remember it all your life. It was dawn in Pench National Park, near Nagpur. The wooded grasslands were still wrapped in a pale ...

Most big cats push their young toward independence fast. Lion cubs leave the pride or are driven out at around 18 months. Cheetah cubs separate from their mothers between 16 and 18 months. Tiger cubs, ...

Twenty years ago, very few people had seen a snow leopard in the wild. In India, Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi was beginning work on a PhD thesis about the Himalayan livestock that the big cats consumed ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A recent analysis of 164 leopard deaths recorded between 2008 and 2024 shows that nearly 40% of deaths occurred in the central Nuwara Eliya ...

This snow leopard was caught on a camera trap in the Zhangye area of Qilian Mountain National Park, China. A camera trap survey led by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in remote parts of China has ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Rodney Jackson, a pioneering snow leopard researcher, has worked across the species’ range — the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia. In 2000 ...

Urgent international action must be taken in the face of climate change to save the snow leopard and conserve its fragile mountain habitats that provide water to hundreds of millions of people across ...