RSS | Archive | Random

About

Home of the big cats! (And sometimes medium and also small sized wild cats.) This blog aims to share beautiful photography, conservation information, interesting facts, global news updates and stories of interest about big cats.

Links

• Species Search
• Recommended Websites
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Know Your Spots!

Ask

Disclaimer

We at The Big Cat Blog share the images we come across on the internet as both a fan of the photographer’s work and as animal lovers with a passion for felines. All images found on this blog remain the property of their respective owners. We lay no claim to any image featured here and receive no financial benefits from their use. We ensure that all images are correctly attributed to their respective owners. If material you own is featured here and you would like it removed or credited differently, you can contact us at thebigcatblog@gmail.com and expect a prompt response.

30 October 11
Taronga is celebrating the arrival of three precious Sumatran Tiger cubs, and they need names! Enter your suggestions here for your chance to win! Sumatran Tigers have suffered greatly from habitat loss due to palm oil plantations destroying their forests; their body parts are still used extensively in traditional medicines and they are still hunted for their pelts. Taronga is financially supporting wildlife protection units in Sumatra, helping to create a network of community rangers to decrease illegal logging, hunting and vigilante actions against wildlife. Photo: Taronga Zoo

Taronga is celebrating the arrival of three precious Sumatran Tiger cubs, and they need names! Enter your suggestions here for your chance to win!

Sumatran Tigers have suffered greatly from habitat loss due to palm oil plantations destroying their forests; their body parts are still used extensively in traditional medicines and they are still hunted for their pelts. Taronga is financially supporting wildlife protection units in Sumatra, helping to create a network of community rangers to decrease illegal logging, hunting and vigilante actions against wildlife.

Photo: Taronga Zoo

19 October 11
Eighteen endangered Bengal tigers among 50 animals shot by Ohio policeSheriff’s deputies shot nearly 50 wild animals — including 18 rare Bengal tigers and 17 lions — in a big-game hunt across the Ohio countryside Wednesday after the owner of an exotic-animal park threw their cages open and committed suicide. Read more.

Eighteen endangered Bengal tigers among 50 animals shot by Ohio police
Sheriff’s deputies shot nearly 50 wild animals — including 18 rare Bengal tigers and 17 lions — in a big-game hunt across the Ohio countryside Wednesday after the owner of an exotic-animal park threw their cages open and committed suicide.

Read more.

13 October 11
Amur leopard captured on camera in China for first time since 1949An Amur leopard was photographed in a forest in Wangqing county, on the border of Russia and North Korea. There are fewer than 50 Amur leopards (Panthera pardus orientalis) left living in the wild, almost all of them in Russia. The cat is classified as technically extinct in China. Chinese officials have immediately moved to establish a national nature reserve around the Wangqing forest, in order to protect the area. Read full article. Photo: Peking University/ World Wildlife Fund /Sun Ge

Amur leopard captured on camera in China for first time since 1949
An Amur leopard was photographed in a forest in Wangqing county, on the border of Russia and North Korea. There are fewer than 50 Amur leopards (Panthera pardus orientalis) left living in the wild, almost all of them in Russia. The cat is classified as technically extinct in China.

Chinese officials have immediately moved to establish a national nature reserve around the Wangqing forest, in order to protect the area.

Read full article.

Photo: Peking University/ World Wildlife Fund /Sun Ge

6 October 11
Update: Animals Lebanon has rescued the five week old cub that was living on a Beirut balcony, and once all of the permits are issued the cub will be flown to the Drakenstein Lion Park in South Africa. Read more.

Update: Animals Lebanon has rescued the five week old cub that was living on a Beirut balcony, and once all of the permits are issued the cub will be flown to the Drakenstein Lion Park in South Africa.

Read more.

19 September 11
Conservation fund helps preserve endangered animals and plantsMajestic and solitary, the Arabian leopard once roamed the Arabian Peninsula. Now, less than 250 of these beautiful creatures exist, their numbers threatened by loss of habitat and hunting. Destroying a top predator in a food chain in such a manner could wreak havoc on the entire ecosystem, a leading environmental fund manager told Gulf News in the capital yesterday. Read more.Image Credit: Gulf News Archive

Conservation fund helps preserve endangered animals and plants
Majestic and solitary, the Arabian leopard once roamed the Arabian Peninsula. Now, less than 250 of these beautiful creatures exist, their numbers threatened by loss of habitat and hunting.

Destroying a top predator in a food chain in such a manner could wreak havoc on the entire ecosystem, a leading environmental fund manager told Gulf News in the capital yesterday.

Read more.
Image Credit: Gulf News Archive

23 June 11
Victory in the campaign to ban circus animals (UK)MPs voted to ban wild animals in circuses last night after David Cameron’s attempts to bully Conservative backbenchers into voting against the measure backfired and ended in a humiliating public defeat. In a decision hailed by campaigners as an “historic victory for animal welfare and protection”, MPs of all parties unanimously backed a ban and the Government signalled that it would introduce one, ending forever the days of lions, tigers, elephants and other wild animals in the big top. Read more.

Victory in the campaign to ban circus animals (UK)
MPs voted to ban wild animals in circuses last night after David Cameron’s attempts to bully Conservative backbenchers into voting against the measure backfired and ended in a humiliating public defeat.

In a decision hailed by campaigners as an “historic victory for animal welfare and protection”, MPs of all parties unanimously backed a ban and the Government signalled that it would introduce one, ending forever the days of lions, tigers, elephants and other wild animals in the big top.

Read more.

16 June 11
Bangladesh sets up special force to save tigersThe 300-strong team will be mainly positioned around the Sundarbans forest, which stands between Bangladesh and India, home to around 400 tigers. Following a recent major incident which saw the biggest haul of illegal tiger parts in decades, the new Wildlife Crime Control unit will also tackle the growing trade in the illegal trafficking of wild animals. Read more.

Bangladesh sets up special force to save tigers
The 300-strong team will be mainly positioned around the Sundarbans forest, which stands between Bangladesh and India, home to around 400 tigers.

Following a recent major incident which saw the biggest haul of illegal tiger parts in decades, the new Wildlife Crime Control unit will also tackle the growing trade in the illegal trafficking of wild animals.

Read more.

9 June 11
As previously reported, Al-Sayed al-Essawy intends to fight a lion to boost Egyptian tourism and make a political statement. From this article: Whether he will actually fight the lion remains in doubt. The minister of tourism, Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour, vowed in a public statement last week that he was “personally involved in making sure such a barbaric act does not take place in Egypt”. There is also a Change.org petition to stop the fight that you can sign HERE. From the same article: The lion fight is just the beginning, Mr al Essawy says. Next, he will lie on the ground as an airplane drives over him. And then, if he can find the sponsors, he will go to the Bermuda Triangle and “reveal all its secrets”. Right. Photo by: k00r0shBPhotoGraphy

As previously reported, Al-Sayed al-Essawy intends to fight a lion to boost Egyptian tourism and make a political statement.

From this article:

Whether he will actually fight the lion remains in doubt. The minister of tourism, Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour, vowed in a public statement last week that he was “personally involved in making sure such a barbaric act does not take place in Egypt”.

There is also a Change.org petition to stop the fight that you can sign HERE.

From the same article:

The lion fight is just the beginning, Mr al Essawy says. Next, he will lie on the ground as an airplane drives over him. And then, if he can find the sponsors, he will go to the Bermuda Triangle and “reveal all its secrets”.

Right.

Photo by: k00r0shBPhotoGraphy

6 June 11
Cheetah owner has violated three UAE laws The cheetah found on an Abu Dhabi street on Sunday proves that the menace of wildlife smuggling is like drug trafficking — however hard the governments try to stop it, the smugglers find a new way, a senior official has told Gulf News. Read more. Photo: Abu Dhabi Wildlife Centre

Cheetah owner has violated three UAE laws
The cheetah found on an Abu Dhabi street on Sunday proves that the menace of wildlife smuggling is like drug trafficking — however hard the governments try to stop it, the smugglers find a new way, a senior official has told Gulf News.

Read more.

Photo: Abu Dhabi Wildlife Centre

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh