A notorious tiger poaching gang was busted in India recently with a 10-foot-long tiger skin, one tiger skeleton, and one leopard skeleton. In a huge anti-poaching operation across India, the Tamil Nadu Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and Wildlife SOS intercepted six members of the big cat poaching community. They had traveled from Delhi to […]
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Lynx in France face extinction with population down to 150 adults at most
Conservationists warn that a big cat population in Europe is destined to collapse unless immediate efforts are made to protect the animals. Researchers estimate there are 120 to 150 adult lynxes in France. Tests on the animals show that the cats’ genetic diversity is so low they will become locally extinct within the next 30 […]

Teenager is mauled to death by a tiger only for his 75-year-old grandfather to suffer the same fate 12 hours later – before a third relative dies of shock in India
A man and his grandson have been mauled to death in separate Bengal tiger attacks within 12 hours of each other. The first victim, 12-year-old Chethan was killed in a tiger attack on the evening of February 12 while harvesting coffee at a plantation adjoining a forest in Karnataka, southern India. Just hours later, on […]

Drunk woman’s miracle escape as she’s mauled by lion after climbing into zoo enclosure
The terrifying moment an “intoxicated” woman climbed into a lion’s cage at a zoo in Russia was caught on camera. She was savagely mauled in the “terrible incident” in Russian zoo Chudesny, in Ussuriysk, according to local reports. The unidentified woman survived but “almost lost her hand” in the shocking encounter with the a big […]