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Steve Winter on the Trail of Big Cats for Big Cat Week
Steve Winter poses with “Roar-y” the better-than-paper tiger in LA at the Broad Stage. (Photo courtesy Ben Gibbs Photography) Photographer Steve Winter traveled from coast to coast in the U.S. this...
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December 7, 2014: Return “Kidnapped” Animals to the Wild, Save the World’s...
An estimated 38 million birds and small animals are pulled from Brazil’s forests each year. Nat Geo Emerging Explorer Juliana Machado Ferreira is working to get as many of those back into the wild as...
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Tigers and Wild Cats for Sale in Myanmar: A Tale of Two Border Towns
Wild Bengal tigers in India. (Photograph by Steve Winter/National Geographic) Talking Tigers: Part 9 of a 12-part series A decades-long investigation found that the illicit trade in tigers and other...
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Great News for Tigers in India—and a Cautionary Tale
Young male tiger in India’s Kaziranga National Park, home to the world’s highest density of tigers. (Photograph by Steve Winter/National Geographic) Talking Tigers: Part 10 of a 12-part series Amidst...
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March 22, 2015: Understanding Wild Fires, Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in...
As people move closer to nature, wildfires increasingly threaten homes and property. (photo by Mark Thiessen/National Geographic) HOUR 1 - Hitch hiking is an art that once flourished in the United...
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Tracking Tigers Is Just As Dangerous As It Sounds
Matthew Luskin is a conservation biologist, wildlife ecologist, and National Geographic grantee. He spent a year in the rain forest of Indonesia tracking tigers through the remaining three largest...
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Urgent Global Action Needed to Stop Extinction of Earth’s Last Megafauna
A swift and global conservation response is needed to prevent the world’s gorillas, lions, tigers, rhinos, and other iconic terrestrial megafauna from being lost forever, more than three dozen...
View ArticleInternational #TigerDay: Cause for Celebration or Alarm?
By Gabriel Fava, Born Free Foundation Today, the 29th of July, is International Tiger Day (#TigerDay). Does the day represent a cause for celebration, alarm, or both? Celebrate, by all means – the...
View ArticleCITES Conference Will Test Commitment of Governments to Save Tigers, EIA Says
The 17th Conference of the Parties to CITES in Johannesburg at the end of September is the perfect opportunity for China, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam to announce real action to end demand for tiger...
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Keeping peace with predators can cut livestock deaths
Co-authored by Erica Cirino Cows grazing in the UK. Credit: IDS.photos (Wikimedia Commons) When predator animals like tigers, lions, bears and wolves attack livestock animals like goats, cows and...
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Why the World Bank Is Saving Tigers
“Wait, what?” people would say when I told them I worked for the Global Tiger Initiative at the World Bank. “The Bank is saving tigers?” For a financial institution that strives to end world poverty,...
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Steve Winter’s Journey to Tigers Forever
This week, wildlife photojournalist Steve Winter’s story about cougars appears in the December issue of National Geographic. He’s become the big cat guy—it’s the fourth species he’s covered for the...
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The Patient Photography of Steve Winter
Photography by Steve Winter/National Geographic National Geographic wildlife photographers have often recounted the painful waiting period that comes with getting the perfect shot. Countless hours are...
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Illegal Tiger Trade: Why Tigers Are Walking Gold
Talking Tigers: Part 2 of a 12-part series In December 2013 at the Tadoba Tiger Reserve in India, we finally got the word: Three confiscated steel-jawed poacher’s traps would be brought to the Forest...
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Kids in India Come Together to Save Tigers
Talking Tigers: Part 3 of a 12-part series We pulled out of the honking pandemonium of morning traffic into the cement schoolyard of Chhotubhai Patel High School. It was only slightly quieter than the...
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Counting Tigers by Their Stripes
Thanks to affordable digital cameras and sophisticated software, conservationists like K. Ullas Karanth of the Wildlife Conservation Society now have powerful tools to accurately monitor tigers in the...
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A Concise History of Tiger Hunting in India
Persian Miniature of Mughal Emperor Akbar hunting tigers in India.(Courtesy exoticindia.com) Talking Tigers: Part 4 of a 12-part series India’s tigers have been in the crosshairs for centuries, with...
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How Much for a Picture With the Monkey? The Real Cost Of Wildlife Tourism
I’ve been extremely fortunate to have spent the past seven months working and traveling in Southeast Asia with support from the National Geographic Society and the U.S. Fulbright program. While my...
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Water-loving cats: Unique Tiger facts
Photograph by Beverly Joubert Tigers are the largest wild cats in the world. Adults can weigh up to 800 pounds – and measure up to 10.8 feet. Photograph by Steve Winter Tigers are carnivores,...
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Implementing SMART to conserve big cats globally
By Drew T. Cronin, SMART Partnership Program Manager Big cats are some of the world’s most iconic and revered wildlife species, and the focus of this year’s World Wildlife Day on March 3. However,...
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