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Is the Serengeti Highway Really Cancelled?
More than a year ago, a new threat to African wildlife surfaced. Plans were being drawn to pave a highway that would bisect Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. “The Road” would cut right across the...
View ArticleLeopard given GPS collar after capture on Namibian cattle ranch
The Big Cats Initiative Grants Program seeks to identify and support projects that engage in immediate actions leading to reductions in big cat mortality. BCI Grantee Florian Weise provides this...
View ArticleMaasai Women Speak Out for Living Walls
The Big Cats Initiative Grants Program seeks to identify and support projects that engage in immediate actions leading to reductions in big cat mortality. Dr. Laly Lichtenfeld, Executive Director of...
View ArticleLion Lights Invention by 13-Year-Old Kenyan to Save Big Cats?
In this video report, National Geographic Big Cats Initiative grantee Paula Kahumbu reports on a bright idea by 13-year-old Kenyan innovator Richard Turere to save endangered lions with his “lion...
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Secretive lives of leopards revealed through scientific monitoring in Namibia
The Big Cats Initiative Grants Program seeks to identify and support projects that engage in immediate actions leading to reductions in big cat mortality. BCI Grantees often provide updates from the...
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THE KITENGELA SIX: Outrage over lion killings in Nairobi – Reader Caution:...
Nairobi National Park is likely one of the most visited protected areas in all of Africa, home to wildlife including lions and other big cats that are possibly viewed by more people than any others in...
View ArticleLion Killing in Kitenden, June 2012
The following dispatch from the field is reported by Richard Bonham, Founder and Chairman of the Maasailand Preservation Trust and Director of Operations for Big Life Foundation. LION KILLING IN...
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Amboseli’s People & Wildlife: Innocent Bystanders Falling Prey to Local...
In recent weeks, human-wildlife conflict in Kenya has grown more severe. This week, Maasai warriors rampaged across the Amboseli ecosystem, following an unsuccessful interaction between tribal leaders...
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Big cats versus livestock – simple solutions reduce conflicts on Namibian farms
The Big Cats Initiative Grants Program seeks to identify and support projects that engage in immediate actions leading to reductions in big cat mortality. BCI Grantees often provide updates from the...
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Build a Boma, Protect a Cow, Save a Lion
Good fences make good neighbors, the saying goes, and this is particularly true in rural Africa, where herders face daily challenges to protect livestock from lions and other predators. Build a Boma is...
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Hundreds of Cases of Conflict Between Farmers and Predators Defused in Namibia
Field Report by Florian J Weise, N/a’an ku sê Principal Investigator, a Grantee of the National Geographic Big Cats Initiative Around the world, the protection of free-roaming predator populations...
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Private Reserves Support National Parks in Big Cat Conservation
National parks offer large core habitat that is critical for conserving large cats, but national parks alone are not sufficient to sustain a connected and genetically healthy population. Smaller...
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In Search of the Elusive Saharan Cheetah
The video above includes rare photographs of Saharan cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus hecki) scentmarking taken by remote cameras in a survey in the Ahaggar Cultural Park in the Algerian Sahara. The survey...
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Rare Snow Leopard Footage from Mongolia
Rare footage of wild snow leopards taken in the Tost mountain range in Mongolia’s South Gobi province shows a vibrant population of these endangered cats – including a mother with three cubs. Click...
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Putin’s Tiger Caught on Film One Year After Release
Masha N. Vorontsova, Regional Director in Russia for the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has some exciting news to share, posted below. In the previous year IFAW released 5 Amur tigers in...
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Small Changes in Livestock Herding Could Reduce a Big Threat to Snow Leopards
Post submitted by Matthias Fiechter. Reducing the losses suffered by farmers due to predation on livestock by snow leopards is a key to protecting the endangered cat. New research now shows that small...
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Translocating Problem Leopards is an Option, If You Plan for It
Post Submitted by Joseph Lemeris. It’s daybreak, near the edge of the Namib Desert in Namibia. We step out of a dusty Land Rover with our cameras, binoculars, and radio-telemetry equipment, and head...
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New Snow Leopard Equipped With GPS Collar in Mongolia
(Photograph: Sumbee Tumursukh / Snow Leopard Trust) Post submitted by Matthias Fiechter. The Snow Leopard Trust’s field team has managed to equip a male snow leopard with a GPS collar, allowing them to...
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Anu’s Tale
Snow Leopard Trust researchers have been able to follow and observe a young female snow leopard named Anu over the course of four years as she grew up, dispersed from her mother and later had cubs...
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Northern Botswana Summer Field Trip
Post submitted by Andrew Stein Northern Botswana provides critical habitat for one of the largest remaining intact populations of wild lions in the world, yet regional conflicts between villagers and...
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