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 »
Secret lives of jaguars revealed
Details of the secret lives of jaguars – including how often the elusive creatures give birth – have been revealed thanks to a landmark study of the big cats using radio collars and camera traps in Costa Rica. Read More »
White tiger mauls zookeeper to death
A zookeeper at a New Zealand wildlife park has been mauled to death by a white tiger in front of horrified visitors. Read More »
Tigers ‘barcoded’ in bid to beat skin trade
Tigers in Thailand are to be electronically tagged in an effort to end the illegal trade in tiger skins that threatens the endangered big cats with extinction. Read More »
