The sale of leopard skin coats, tiger skin rugs, turtle shell leather shoes and other illegal animal products led to the arrest of 12 individuals in the Los Angeles area this week.

Leopard skin rugs abound while lavish furniture and pictures of fashion idols greet visitors to the Empire Academy of Makeup in Costa Mesa. So it certainly appears to be the proper habitat for ...

A rug seized in a crackdown last week might have come from one of two clouded leopards caught on camera in the wild at the Erawan National Park in Kanchanaburi's Sri Sawat district last December.