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How Argentina’s Getting Its Jaguars Back

With the birth of a wild cub, a jaguar reintroduction project in the Gran Chaco Forest achieves its biggest milestone to date.

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A Scaredy-Cat Won’t Hunt

To protect imperiled birds, these ecologists are working to put the fear back in New Zealand’s cats.

Fire Island Has Gone to the Cats

In New York’s only federal wilderness area, the loss of a key predator has led to the rise of a new one—with dire consequences for the island’s native birds.

Two Iberian lynx peer over rocky outcrops. Photograph by Andoni Canela
Bounding Toward Recovery

The Iberian lynx—one of the world’s most endangered cats—made a giant leap toward a comeback in just a few years, easing the way for other species to follow in its path.

On a bed of the latest headlines, Ruj, a research assistant on fthe Fishing Cat Research and Conservation Project, affixes a radio collar to a young male fishing cat. If the collar stays on, the cat will reveal invaluable data on the movement of a species that has rarely been recorded.
Fishing Cat’s Cradle

Under the watchful eye of a local conservation biologist, the world’s only wetland cat eeks out a strange existence in some of Southeast Asia’s most heavily fragmented habitats.