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BENGALURU, India | July 08, 2021

The Warli and the Waghoba: How a Large Cat Deity Helps People to Share Space with Leopards in India

A new study led by WCS-India documents how a big cat deity worshipped by Indigenous Peoples facilitates coexistence between humans and leopards.

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BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo | March 31, 2021

Study: Female Monkeys Use Males as “Hired Guns” for Defense Against Predators

Researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) Congo Program and the Nouabalé-Ndoki Foundation found that female putty-nosed monkeys (Cercopithecus nictitans) use males as “hired guns” to defend from predators such as leopards.

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VLADIVOSTOK, Russia | July 13, 2018

New Study: An Estimated 84 Highly Endangered Amur Leopards Remain in the Wild in China and Russia

Scientists estimate there are only 84 remaining highly endangered Amur leopards (Panthera pardus orientalis) remaining in the wild across its current range along the southernmost border of Primorskii Province in Russia and Jilin Province of China.

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BANGALORE, India | July 09, 2018

Garden Pests that Can Eat You: WCS Wild Seve Program Protects Farmers and Wildlife from Each Other

WCS’s Wild Seve program, which helps farmers living around India’s Bandipur and Nagarahole National Parks recoup losses of crops or livestock from tigers, leopards, elephants, and other protected wildlife, has just filed its 10,000^th claim since the program launched in July, 2015.

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Brazzaville, Republic of Congo | June 14, 2018

Silverback Gorilla Celebrates 40th Birthday in Congo Rainforest

He’s a father of 20 from nine different mothers. He’s a fierce defender of his family and helped nurse two of his offspring back from leopard attacks. He likes to nap with his feet in the air, and he hums while he eats. Meet Kingo, a wild silverback gorilla who is celebrating his 40^th birthday.

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January 17, 2018

Canine Distemper Confirmed in Far Eastern Leopard, World’s Most Endangered Big Cat

17 January 2018 – The Far Eastern or Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) is already among the rarest of the world’s big cats, but new research reveals that it faces yet another threat: infection with canine distemper virus (CDV).

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January 16, 2018

STUDY: High Tolerance for Wildlife Exists Around Indian Reserves Despite Continued Losses

RAJASTHAN, INDIA (January 16, 2018) A new study from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), Duke University, and the Centre for Wildlife Studies in India finds that communities living near wildlife reserves in Rajasthan, India, show a high tolerance for wildlife. This is despite them having experienced losses in crops and livestock as a result of interaction with wildlife like nilgai, jackal and wild pig, as well as larger carnivores such as leopard and wolves. Understanding these attitudes towards wildlife is critical to informing park management policies and practices.

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October 02, 2017

Leopard Confirmed by Remote Camera Monitoring in Nigeria’s Yankari Game Reserve

CALABAR, Nigeria (October 2, 2017) – Camera traps set up by researchers from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) in the forests of Nigeria’s Yankari Game Reserve have captured images of a leopard, an elusive big cat thought to be locally extinct in the region.

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May 15, 2017

Tea-Time Means Leopard-Time in India

(Bangalore, May 15, 2017) A new WCS study finds that leopards are abundant in tea-garden landscapes in north-eastern India, but that their mere presence does not lead to conflicts with people.

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March 30, 2017

WCS SCIENTISTS RELEASE RARE FOOTAGE FROM “ROOFTOP OF THE WORLD”

March 30, 2017 – WCS field staff and local government partners from Tibet produced an incredible video showing an ongoing study of snow leopards and Tibetan antelope.

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