This rare Persian leopard was the 5,000th entry in Joel Sartore's Photo Ark. This rare Persian leopard was the 5,000th entry in Joel Sartore's Photo Ark. Now in its 12th year, the Photo Ark is the ...

Two Persian leopard cubs were born in a Russian national park last week for the first time in 50 years, according to a statement from the World Wildlife Fund. The species is endangered. The Persian ...

SOCHI, Russia — The Russian resort of Sochi is best known for hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics. But now it's about to welcome a different kind of visitor — one that can break a goat's neck with a ...

Hana Raza has never seen a Persian leopard. But thanks to her, we know the big cats still roam the Zagros Mountains of Kurdistan. After four decades of war in Iraq, the species was thought to have ...

The first thing that Vladimir Putin did after arriving in Sochi on Tuesday for the 2014 Winter Olympics was to catch up with some dear friends. With the international press in tow, the Russian ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq—Few parts of the world look more hostile to big cats than the rugged wilderness that flanks the northern Iran-Iraq frontier. Laced with land mines and roamed by packs of dedicated ...