India launches tiger tracking system in bid to save species
India has deployed a high-tech GPS-based tiger monitoring system in an effort to stamp out poaching and protect the critically endangered species. Read More »
Secretive snow leopards set for Twycross Zoo debut
The UK’s Twycross Zoo is celebrating the arrival of a pair of snow leopards intended as the star attraction of its new Himalayan-themed enclosure. Read More »
McQueen’s stuffed tiger seized by wildlife police
British police have seized a stuffed adult tiger once used in a fashion shoot by the late designer Alexander McQueen in a raid on a central London studio. Read More »
Visitors sickened by Kurdish zoo animals’ plight
Visitors to a zoo in the Iraqi-Kurd city of Erbil have complained of sickening conditions and called for the animals, including a smuggled baby lion, to be relocated. Read More »
Rare Sumatran tiger family caught on camera
A World Wildlife Fund research team in Indonesia has caught footage of a rare Sumatran tiger family on video camera for the first time. Read More »
Zoo staff in shock over TV baby cheetah’s death
Staff at Colchester Zoo have been left devastated by the sudden death of a hand reared cheetah cub. Read More »
Last-ditch bid to save Romanian zoo’s lions from death
Fourteen lions at a squalid and crumbling Romanian zoo could be shot if an appeal to raise funds to move the ailing big cats to a British wildlife park falls short of its £150,000 target. Read More »
Tigers ‘could be extinct within a decade’
The World Bank has thrown its support behind conservation efforts to save the tiger amid fears the big cats could be extinct in the wild within 10 years. Read More »
Mum fights off cougar to save daughter
A Canadian mother fought off a cougar that had pinned down her three-year-old daughter in a forest near Vancouver, according to reports. Read More »
