Shosho, who weighs 40 stone and can reach eight-foot when standing on his hind legs, shared a kiss and cuddle with Ashley and the pair even had a dip together in a nearby creek, close to Shosho's home at the Seaview Lion Park near Port Elizabeth.

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A female Bengal tiger and a male Siberian tiger have produced three cubs at a zoo in Mexico, despite being different sub-species.

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The sentencing of two tiger poachers marks a major turning point in Asia’s war against wildlife crime. WCS helped apprehend the pair last summer after authorities discovered a cell phone with images of a dead tiger.

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This video, taken in November 2011, features Panthera's Media Director and National Geographic photographer, Steve Winter, giving a NatGeo Live! lecture entitled On the Trail of the Tiger. In his presentation, Steve describes his travels through India, Sumatra, and Thailand to photograph the dwindling populations of tigers in these countries.

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Észak-India egyik természeti rezervátumában egy egész falut költöztettek el, hogy több helyet biztosítsanak a helyi tigriseknek és ezzel is védjék az ország hanyatló nagymacska populációját.

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A new report by WWF identifies the 20 biggest U.S. grocery chains that were believed to be the top 20 buyers of Paseo products in 2011. Paseo, the fastest-growing brand of toilet paper in the United States today, is directly tied to rain forest destruction in Sumatra.

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Debmalya Roy Chowdhury, WWF staff member, works in the Terai Arc Landscape, a vital refuge for tigers in India and Nepal. As he crossed the River Kosi with two colleagues one day, he heard a scream, “Sir, tiger, tiger!”

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