The Tilcayo Cat and Photojournalist Fernando Faciole.

The tilcayo (Leopardus tilcayo) is a small wild feline native to the high-elevation cloud forests of the Bolivian Yungas, officially described by science in September 2026 as the first new living cat species recognized in over a century.

The National Geographic Society dispatched Brazil-based National Geographic Explorer and photojournalist Fernando Faciole to create some of the first images of this new wild cat. Faciole's visual storytelling has earned international acclaim, including the Impact Award at Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025, Public Award at the Environmental Photography Award (2024 and 2025), the Panda Award at the Wildscreen Festival (2022). He is also a member of the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP).

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Photos of the Tilcayo on National Geographic
Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz
Doug Gimesy, Conservation and Wildlife Photojournalist

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National Geographic Museum of Exploration - Discovery begins here.

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Charlie Hamilton James is an award-winning wildlife photographer, documentary filmmaker, director, and author renowned for his work with National Geographic and the BBC. Beginning his career at age 16 working on Sir David Attenborough’s The Trials of Life, he has spent decades documenting conservation, animal behavior, and human ecology, earning international acclaim for his deep visual studies of kingfishers, river otters, the Peruvian Amazon, and the East African Serengeti. Recipient of the National Geographic Photographer’s Photographer Award alongside multiple Emmy and BAFTA nominations, he is widely recognized for his raw, intimate storytelling that bridges natural history and pressing environmental realities.

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Billy and Molly - An Otter Love Story

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Margot Raggett and the Newest Wildlife Photographers United Book — Remembering Giraffes.

Margot Raggett MBE is a British wildlife photographer and the founder of Remembering Wildlife, a series of collaborative photography books that has raised more than million dollars for conservation projects across Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Her images are published worldwide, and in 2015 she won the Animal Antics category of the Nature's Best Photography Awards.

After encountering a poached elephant in Laikipia, Kenya, Margot launched Remembering Wildlife in 2015, bringing together the world's leading wildlife photographers to donate their work for a single cause. What began with Remembering Elephants has grown into eleven books, including rhinos, great apes, lions, leopards, tigers, and now Remembering Giraffes. In 2023 she was awarded an MBE for services to international conservation.

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