The forests of Asia contain more wild cat species than any other continent, with ten small wild cat species calling these rapidly disappearing habitats home.
Click on the name below the pictures to read our Asian tropical cats fact sheets.
Small Wild Cats of Asia
Asiatic Golden Cat Catopuma temminckii
Clouded Leopard – Mainland Neofelis nebulosa
Clouded Leopard – Sunda Neofelis diardi
Fishing Cat Prionailurus viverrinus
Flat-headed Cat Prionailurus planiceps
Leopard Cat – Mainland Prionailurus bengalensis
Leopard Cat – Sunda Priorionailurus javanensis (fact sheet coming soon)
Marbled Cat Pardofelis marmorata
Rusty-spotted Cat Prionailurus rubiginosus
Big Cats of Asia
Updated 2024
See also the Wildcat Page for more on this species/subspecies
Asiatic Wildcat Felis lybica ornata
Pat Bumstead
We had to split the continent into two so the snow leopard and other cats you’re missing are on the Eurasian cats page. Asian cats are tropical species.
stuart chapman
Hi, For Asia, you are missing Snow Leopard (listed under Big Cats) and Eurasian lynx (small cats)
Pat Bumstead
We don’t have a ‘big cats of Asia’ section. The Tiger has his own fact sheet at https://wildcatconservation.org/wild-cats/asia/tiger/ and is also shown on the Asian wild cats page https://wildcatconservation.org/wild-cats/asia/tiger/
Arch Nemesis
You are missing the tigers in ‘big cats of asia’. Kindly please update.
Pat Bumstead
No sorry. We cannot supply funds to Iran.
Farhad Varzkari
Hi, there are small wild cats in the middle east especially in Iran too. Sand cat, Pallas’s cat, Caracal, euroasian lynx and jungle cat. All of these small wild cats in Iran are poorly known and there are no active and continues research on these cats, I want to study on sand cats in Iran, will you provide any founds for proposal from this region?
Keshab Parajuli
It is very useful to the field workers like us.