Living With Carnivores Is About More Than Livestock Losses
Near Iran’s Golestan National Park, researchers explored what was associated with people’s willingness to accept leopards, wolves and…
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Sri Lankan Leopards in Tea Landscape Were Less Active by Day and More Active at Dusk
In Sri Lanka’s Central Highlands, only 4.4% of leopard records in an unprotected tea landscape were diurnal while…
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Livestock conflict with large carnivores is widespread across Queen Elizabeth National Park
Researchers documented 139 confirmed livestock-depredation events involving lions, leopards and spotted hyenas across 11 communities in Queen Elizabeth…
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Key Movement Bottlenecks for Five Large Mammals Lay Outside Protected Areas in Tamil Nadu
A 2026 study of tiger, leopard, dhole, Asian elephant and gaur identified modelled movement bottlenecks outside protected areas,…
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Lions climbed trees more often in wet-season afternoons, while leopards showed a different pattern
Observations from northern Tanzania found that lion tree climbing was associated with wet-season afternoons, while leopards climbed far…
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Amur leopard density nearly tripled in a decade
Ten years of camera-trap data from Russia’s Land of the Leopard National Park show a strong recovery in…
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Climate Velocity Ranked First Among Factors Linked to Global Leopard Range Loss
A global analysis of all nine leopard subspecies ranked climate velocity — the speed at which comparable climate…
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Livestock Losses Varied Strongly Among Households and Carnivores in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley
In a survey of 147 households near Omo National Park, 36.1% reported losing livestock to carnivores during the…
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Wild prey made up 96.8% of identified leopard kills on Namibian farms
Ten years of tracking on central Namibian farmland found that 96.8% of identified leopard kills were wild prey,…
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First Arabian Leopard Nuclear Genome Assembly Provides a Reference for Conservation Genomics
The first nuclear genome assembly for the Arabian leopard spans about 2.43 billion DNA bases in 94 sequence…
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Trail-only Cameras Underrepresented Female Felids and Biased Density Estimates in Bhutan
In Bhutan, trail-only camera traps recorded disproportionately fewer female felids and produced density estimates averaging 22% below a…
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Habitat and Prey Were More Strongly Linked to Leopard Persistence Than Tiger Suppression in Bhutan
Bhutan's first nationwide leopard-density analysis estimated 1.02 leopards per 100 km², while repeated surveys showed that habitat and…
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Settlement Proximity Was the Strongest Model Predictor of Tiger and Leopard Livestock Depredation in Panna
A spatial study around Panna Tiger Reserve found settlement distance was the strongest MaxEnt predictor for both tiger…
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Urine and Scat Chemical Profiles Distinguished Tiger From Leopard With 79% and 75% Cross-validated Accuracy
Chemical profiles from tiger and leopard urine and scat reached about 79% and 75% species-classification accuracy in five-fold…
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Nine Indian species could anchor protection for biodiversity and carbon
A national analysis identifies nine threatened Indian vertebrates whose habitat could act as an anchor for protecting hundreds…
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Prey Activity Tracked Summer Leopard Site Use; Winter Use Increased Farther From Settlements
Four years of camera trapping in Pakistan’s Margalla Hills linked summer leopard site use most strongly to a…
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Wire snares dominated 17 years of recorded leopard deaths in Sri Lanka
Among 138 documented deaths with a known cause, 62.3% involved snares, with records concentrated in central-highland plantation landscapes.
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Infrared Method Classified Tested Tiger, Leopard and Buffalo Bone With 100% Accuracy in Validation Tests
Infrared chemical fingerprints combined with a classification model correctly separated every tested Bengal tiger and Indian leopard bone…
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Camera traps found no evidence that baboons avoided sites for days after predators passed
Across four savanna sites, camera traps showed no clear decrease in baboon detections during the 72 hours after…
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Six ITHCP Projects Combine Habitat Protection, Coexistence and Livelihoods Across Asian Tiger Landscapes
Six IUCN-supported projects running from 2025–2028 are implementing patrols, restoration, corridor protection, conflict reduction and livelihood measures across…
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