For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...

In honor of Big Cat Week, National Geographic caught up with six photographers to ask them about their most memorable experiences in the wild, from the rain forests of India to the savannahs of ...

It inspired us to launch National Geographic's Big Cats Initiative (BCI) as an effort to save these top predators. Big cats are keystone species that support the African and Asian ecosystems.

Over the past five years 40,000 individuals have supported National Geographic’s work to help communities around the world understand, protect, and live with big cats. Our Big Cats Initiative ...

This story appears in the December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... conservation is politics—and politics is killing the big cats. Humans and predators have for millennia ...

The National Geographic Society’s Big Cats Initiative supports scientists and conservationists working to save big cats in the wild. Learn more at NatGeoBigCats.org.