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

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

Proof that lions roamed northern Siberia in the age of the mammoths and woolly rhinoceros.

A few years ago only 30 were living in the wild, but now there is a realistic chance to avoid extinction.

Mongrel becomes surrogate mother for baby big cats at village zoo in Omsk region.

The male big cat's death is 'extremely dangerous' for the species, warns an expert.

New director Andrey Gorban, 47, on the challenges of modernising one of Siberia's favourite zoos, and dealing with his tapir's tantrums.

Stranded on Teletskoye Lake in the Altai Mountains, bird's only hope of survival is to be caught and put in a zoo.

Kitten is one of the world’s rarest big cats, with only 91 known adults surviving in the wild.