Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scotland's Cairngorms National Park just received 18 more wildcats in a years-long attempt to restore the mammals' population to ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. The queuña forests in Peru, once covering vast stretches of the ...

Since we were children, we’ve loved learning about the fascinating large wildcats, like lions and tigers. They were all enormous compared to our cat at home and had gigantic teeth, which naturally ...

Critically endangered wildcat kittens have been caught on camera for the first time. The four Scottish wildcat kittens have been born at the Saving Wildcats conservation breeding for release centre, ...

Small wildcat species suffer from habitat loss, hunting and human conflicts, just like better-known big cats. But some small wildcat populations also face threats from other felines: hybridization.

Holding the synthetic leopard fur up next to the real thing, it's hard to tell which is which — and that's exactly what the team behind Saving Spots wants to hear. Saving Spots — launched in August ...

This release is available in German. Leipzig. For the first time an international researcher team has developed a model, which identifies potential habitats and corridors for the European wildcat ...

Current efforts to protect and restore native biodiversity is being threatened by difficulties in identifying wild and domestic cats, and categorization is likely to remain fraught for the foreseeable ...

Erin Healy, an environmental engineer with The Mulloon Institute, is traveling to the High Plains in early April to visit the area’s rangelands and watersheds and see some of the recent work of ...

Ecological modeling has become central to understanding the distribution, habitat requirements and population dynamics of wildcats, a genus of small felids whose conservation status ranges from least ...

With previously released wildcats breeding in the wild, experts say there's "hope" for the future of the mammal's conservation Getty Scotland’s Cairngorms National Park adds 18 wildcats, bringing the ...