On two occasions, black leopards, discovered through camera traps while conducting a tiger census on November 17th, were spotted in the state at different locations. Former Indian Forest Service ...

Black Leopard. (Photo: @Prem_CWLWOdisha) Last time, the black leopard was spotted in a forest in Odisha during the ongoing tiger census. In November 2024, a black leopard was sighted in Bhandara ...

Gloucestershire-based Rick Minter, host of the Big Cat Conversations podcast, believes a reported sighting near Melksham could well be a black leopard indigenous to the Malay Peninsula.

This means that Indian snow leopards account for roughly 10-15% of the big cat's global population. The snow leopard is classified as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Forest officials said the black panthers are a colour variant of the Indian leopard and these melanistic cats are equally shy and are very difficult to detect. The PCCF (wildlife) said measures ...

The Bir Talab Zoological Park is set to welcome black bears and two female leopards soon, Bathinda forest range officer and zoo in-charge, Gurdeep Singh Sidhu said. This development marks the ...