A new report by the U.K.-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), an international advocacy group, suggests that China is knowingly violating i...

My hope is that National Geographic's wonderful photographs bring the predicament of this critically endangered cat to a new audience who, like most Iranians a decade ago, had never heard of the cheetah's existence in the country.

A wire snare is cheap to make, easy to set and deadly for big cats. One recent victim close to my heart is a leopard called Ngoye. She is the central character of a project I started 10 years ago in Phinda, South Africa -- Panthera's Munyawana Leopard Project.

Shooting a big cat in the name of "sport" nauseates me; I've spent a career working to conserve the world's great cats. Yet I question the effort to list the African lion under the Endangered Species Act.

Panthera gathered stories from our scientists, researchers and partners about their favorite encounters with big cats in the wild. Below is a story f...

In many countries around the world, working to save wildlife is viewed as a lowly position with little to no recognition accompanied by a meager and inconsistent paycheck.

Snow leopards are one of the most distinctive cats - stocky, covered in thick grey fur with large black rosettes, and they have small, rounded ears - an adaptation to minimize heat loss.

As few as 3,500 snow leopards may still roam the harsh, forbidding mountains of Central Asia. No one knows for sure.

In the science of describing cat behavior -- or any wildlife species for that matter -- a compelling question is, how connected are individuals to each other?

Sold legally to farmers for their crops, Furadan is all too accessible to herders, ranchers and pastoralists who use it to poison predators which might kill their livestock.