Leopards

The country's nature conservation body has announced the fines for hunting endangered species, which are off-limits for the 2024-2025 season.

The list of protected wild creatures prepared by the General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks' Central Hunting Commission features mammals, reptiles and birds.

Hunting the critically endangered Anatolian leopard will result in a 1.2 million Turkish Liras fine, the General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks announced.

The endangered Anatolian leopard (Panthera pardus tulliana), which was last captured in a photo in August 2019 for the first time in the country since 1974, has been spotted once again on Türkiye's lands, the General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks has announced.

The Anatolian leopard, which was last seen in Türkiye in 1975, was spotted on Aug. 8, 2019, since then for the first time when it was thought to be extinct.

The DNA data obtained in the laboratory from the urine sample of the leopard that it left in front of the camera was registered to the World Gene Bank as the "Anatolian Leopard" in 2020.

The Turkish Agriculture and Forestry Ministry has shared new photos of an Anatolian leopard, which is an endangered leopard subspecies of Iranian Pars and was filmed last May after nearly five decades.

The Anatolian leopard thought to be extinct in Türkiye was caught once again by a camera trap.

Two Persian leopards landed in Moscow on Sunday to join a program for the reintroduction of leopards into the wild

Villagers living in the Central Anatolian province of Çorum's Bayat district have been living in fear of a "lion" for a while.
Since their livestock has been destroyed by an unknown wild animal recently, those living in Emirhalil village claim that it was a lion that was attacking the herds.

A reported leopard sighting close to where a big cat injured five people at the weekend forced the closure of 130 schools in the southern Indian city of Bangalore on Feb. 11, the education authority said.

A leopard which entered a school in the Indian city of Bangalore injured six people who were trying to capture it.

The leopard entered the school in the Indian city of Bangalore around 4:00am local time, but it wasn’t discovered until it attacked an employee in the late afternoon.

A judge, who is also a member of Greenpeace, has acquitted two shepherds for killing a leopard in southeast Turkey, on the grounds they had killed the animal in self-defense.

Shepherds Kas?m Kaplan and his cousin, Mahmut Kaplan, were on trial for shooting and killing a leopard in the Ç?nar district of Diyarbak?r province in 2013.