A murder probe had been launched after Stepan Ludannyi went missing.

Big cat Leo80M - also called Nikolay - prepares for flight to Moscow and 'noble mission'. 

Baywatch star on trip to Russian Far East visits lion saved from flooded zoo in Ussuriysk.

Tigre de Cristal under fire for 'abusing' rare big cat to promote gambling revolution.

Rescue effort underway to provide emergency feeding sites for the helpless animals, with the wild boar population also in trouble.

Novel approach to help recovery of leopard and tiger numbers in the Russian Far East.

Vets fight for life of the young male Amur leopard.

New estimate puts number at 80, almost double some recent figures.

Conservationists and experts due to meet over what to do with animal listed as most endangered big cat in the world.

Daring criminals intended to walk across frozen lake to take skins and ‘potency cures’ into China.