KATHMANDU — A tiger sits quietly surrounded by trees, observing something in the distance. It then roars and darts toward its target: a leopard that jumps down from a tree. The two big cats confront one another, but with the leopard taking the submissive stance of lying on the ground, the standoff doesn’t escalate into […]
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Alarm as 2,500 private owners keep elephants, tigers and lemurs as pets
Imagine living next door to a tiger, puma or crocodile, or a lemur, mountain lion, honey badger or ostrich. Strange as it may sound, there are at least 2,500 wild animals in private collections in England, including snakes and scorpions, 300 wild cats, more than 200 primates – and even two elephants. As exotic pet […]
Tiger Cub Confiscated During New Mexico Shooting Investigation Sent to Colorado Sanctuary
An approximately 4-month-old tiger cub presently being referred to as “Duke” was rescued after Albuquerque police officers responded to a call about gunshots fired. The call led officers to a convenience store where a bystander had been struck by a bullet. Soon after, police heard a gunshot coming from a nearby mobile home where they […]
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 […]
How to Protect Big Cats in Your Travels and Help Stop the ‘Cuddle of Death’
Animal activists and wildlife conservationists have long since sounded the alarms of the detrimental effects of close encounter with wildlife attractions. Now there is proof that human-animal contact is not the best thing for wild animals and, worse, can cause irrevocable harm. New research on the popular wildlife tourist attraction known as “cub-petting” reveals the […]
Horror as escaped Bengal tiger mauls dog walker after killing pets
An escaped Bengal tiger which was being kept as a pet is being hunted by police with drones and helicopters after it attacked a dog walker. Sheba, an eight-year-old tigress, has so far killed two dogs and an antelope after breaking out of a smallholding in Walkerville, 18 miles from the South African capital of […]
Major win! US Senate passes the Big Cat Public Safety Act
In a major advance in our long fight against the abuse of captive big cats, the U.S. Senate just passed the Big Cat Public Safety Act (H.R. 263/ S. 1210), a bill we have championed for years because it prohibits keeping big cats as pets and also bans contact between big cats and the public. […]
Enigmatic binturong photographed in Nepal for the first time
KATHMANDU — This past July 20, Radha Krishna Rijal noticed a strange animal struggling in the drainage channel of his house in the Parshyang neighborhood of western Nepal’s Pokhara Valley. He’d never seen such an animal before, he tells Mongabay: it was small, with a long tail and a furry body. “It had rained continuously […]