The range of the leopard is greater than that of any other of the larger carnivores, since it inhabits the whole of Asia, and is found almost throughout Africa and everywhere it shows a tendency ...

He estimates that around 800 leopards are killed each year, in South Africa and neighboring countries, to meet demand. “To put that in perspective, we think there are probably fewer than 5,000 ...

The leopard is the most widespread of all the big cats. The typical form came from Egypt. Its present range extends from sub-Saharan Africa across the Arabian Peninsula into the Indian subcontinent, ...

Leopards are the most widespread big cats in the world, with historical territory that ranges across much of Eurasia and Africa. They are powerful and adaptable, able to live everywhere from the ...

Worldwide, leopards have lost about 75 percent of their historic range, according to a new survey — the first to attempt to get a glimpse of the big cat’s remaining global paw print.

An ultra-rare black leopard — with a silky-looking, shiny coat — was spotted in Africa for the first time in roughly 100 years, and the wildlife photographer who captured the elusive big cat ...

The black leopard, known as a black panther in Africa and Asia, is a secretive and elusive creature, one in which wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas dreamed of capturing in high-quality ...

A growing religion in southern Africa is posing a threat to the survival of wild leopards. For the Nazareth Baptist Church, also known as the Shembe, leopards are seen as a symbol of pride, beauty ...

Leopards in Mpumalanga, South Africa evolved out of an ice age event. Anup Shah/Getty Images. Mitogenomes are a “genomic by-catch” when sequencing the whole genome.

Extremely rare BLACK leopard becomes 'the first ever to be photographed in Africa without a camera trap' in unique close-up encounter in Kenya ...