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Animals News tagged with big cats

Wildlife Protection Act to Be More Tiger Friendly
Animals  (tags: wildlife protection act, protection, big cats, tigers, environment, conservation )

Simone
- 1 day ago - beta.thehindu.com
To prevent incidents of poaching and poisoning and to save the remaining population of tigers, the Ministry of Environment and Forests proposes to bring in amendments to the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972. This was stated by Union Minister of State
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PANTHER RIDGE CONSERVATION CENTER
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, big cats, conservation, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 3 days ago - pantherridgesanctuary.org
Part habitat, part haven, part labor of feline love, the Panther Ridge Conservation Center is above all else a home for some of the world's most beautiful and endangered big cats
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To Check Crimes Against Big Cats, WWF to Train Forest Officials
Animals  (tags: tigers, forest officials, training, crimes, big cats, conservation )

Simone
- 7 days ago - indianexpress.com
With an aim to check crime against leopards and tigers, World Wide Fund For Nature India (WWF-India) will impart training to Forest department officials manning areas with substantial population of these big cats. The training, an initiative
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Roaring Mad
Animals  (tags: shambala preserve wildlife sanctuary, big cats, rescued, safe, tippi hedren )

Simone
- 14 days ago - all-creatures.org
Last weekend I had the opportunity to tour the Shambala Preserve wildlife sanctuary in Acton, California. It is operated by the Roar Foundation, founded by actress Tippi Hedren in 1983. The woman perhaps most famous for the movie "The Birds" has dedicated
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Zion's Troubles Continue as the Lions' Health Begins to Suffer
Animals  (tags: zion big cat park, big cats, suffering, health, deteriorating, declawed, cruelty )

Simone
- 14 days ago - 3news.co.nz
After the glory days of the Lion Man TV series, Zion Wildlife Gardens in Whangarei has become a sad story. The death of a keeper, the legal dispute between Craig Busch and his mother Patricia, and now the failing health of some of the cats themselves.
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Buxa Tiger Reserve May Take Up Captive Breeding
Animals  (tags: tiger reserves, endangered, ageing, captive breeding programmes, conservation, big cats )

Simone
- 16 days ago - ptinews.com
With tigers ageing and their numbers decreasing in the Buxa Tiger Reserve in North Bengal, authorities plan to start captive breeding to maintain the population of the big cats. "We are preparing a plan on the suggestion of the National Tiger
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Wildlife Filmmakers Focusing on Endangered Cats
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, big cats, extinction, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 16 days ago - latimes.com
Dereck and Beverly Joubert, who have spent 25 years documenting Africa's most iconic animals, have teamed with National Geographic on the Big Cats Initiative in an attempt to stop their extinction
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The Paw Project
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, cats, big cats, declaw, environment, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 27 days ago - pawproject.org
THE PAW PROJECT's MISSION is to educate the public about the painful and crippling effects of cat declawing, to promote animal welfare through the abolition of the practice of declaw surgery, and to rehabilitate big cats that have been declawed.
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DFO Defends Poachers, Says They Did Want to Trap Jackal
Animals  (tags: poachers defended, leopard beaten to death, big cats, disappearing, poached, killed, tragedy, tiger reserve )

Simone
- 28 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Drop in temperature could well mean a dip in numbers of big cats. If past incidents are any indication, winter is fast proving to be a killer season for tigers and leopards in Dudhwa Tiger Reserve. The brutal battering of a leopard in Motipur village
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Undercover Investigation Exposes China's Illegal Big Cat Skin Trade
Animals  (tags: animals, big cats, iilegal trade, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, habitat, killing, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 28 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Officials from the Environment Investigation Agency (EIA) recently took part in an undercover investigation that revealed the illegal big cat skin and bone trade is still taking place in China despite the fact it is against the law. The investigation
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Big Cat Skin Trade in China Exposed! Video!
Animals  (tags: animals, big cats, skin trade, AnimalWelfare, environment, killing, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 30 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
An undercover investigation by an environmental campaign group reveals the continuing trade in tiger skins in China
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Big Cats Lose Claws
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, big cats, declawed, suffering, environment, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 31 days ago - stuff.co.nz
BIG cats featured on The Lion Man hit TV show are suffering after having their paws "mutilated'' so they could perform with their handlers, says the wildlife park troubleshooter now overseeing the animals' welfare
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Kings of the Jungle Fight for Survival
Animals  (tags: big cats, africa, disappearing, tragedy, fighting for survival, extinction, poaching )

Simone
- 40 days ago - nation.co.ke
They may be kings of the jungle but now, conservationists say, lions in some of Kenya's most scenic parks are reduced to fighting for their lives. Africa's wild lion population is in trouble. And their population could disappear in the next 20 years
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Dave Salmoni: Cat Plight
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, animaladvocates, big cats, habitat, environment, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 40 days ago - nationalpost.com
When asked how people can help Africa's lions, his answer is delivered like a Sunday morning sermon: "Go pay and have a safari. If you spend that money, all the people surrounding that wild space are supported. All the hospitals, the schools,
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Big Cats Initiative Launched By National Geographic First Step: Halting Decline of Lions
Animals  (tags: animals, big cats, disappearing, environment, habitat, protection, endangered, extinction, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 40 days ago - media-newswire.com
Big cats are in trouble, from lions in Kenya to snow leopards in the Himalaya. The icons of the natural world - lions, cheetahs, leopards, jaguars and other top felines - are disappearing, victims of habitat loss and degradation as well as conflicts with
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