{"id":2261,"date":"2026-10-17T15:48:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webmediamall.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/unicorn778-storytelling-duo-steve-winter-sharon-guynup-publish-new-book-peluang-terburuk-saat-bermain-slot-online\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T15:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:48:05","slug":"unicorn778-storytelling-duo-steve-winter-sharon-guynup-publish-new-book-peluang-terburuk-saat-bermain-slot-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webmediamall.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/unicorn778-storytelling-duo-steve-winter-sharon-guynup-publish-new-book-peluang-terburuk-saat-bermain-slot-online\/","title":{"rendered":"UNICORN778 Storytelling duo Steve Winter &#038; Sharon Guynup publish new book Peluang Terburuk Saat Bermain Slot Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-332838\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bulletpoints-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"bulletpoints\">\n<ul>\n<li><em>Wildlife photographer Steve Winter and environmental journalist Sharon Guynup have worked together for decades, and they offer a vital message in Big Cats their new book: Wildlife storytelling can deliver real, measurable environmental change, helping people and big cats find ways to coexist and benefit from each other.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>In this Q&amp;A with the creative duo they discuss how technology, from camera traps to GPS collars, helped make intimate big cat photography in the wild possible, and how it revolutionized the ways big cats are studied, documented and conserved.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Even with all their groundbreaking work covering big cats, \u201cConservation has no end point,\u201d they say. Successes born of stunning images and moving prose can help power conservation, but there are always new challenges, making protecting wildlife a constantly evolving process.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Despite global conservation efforts, all big cat species are still considered vulnerable to extinction. That is why Winter and Guynup have teamed up to create a book documenting their work together and its impacts. Big Cats, published by National Geographic, was released Oct. 6 and is available at book stores and online.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><button class=\"content-expander\"><span>See All Key Ideas<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>For more than two decades, <em>National Geographic<\/em> photographer Steve Winter and environmental journalist Sharon Guynup have followed big cats into some of Earth\u2019s wildest, most dangerous places. Their work has taken them from the jungles of India and Brazil to the high Himalaya, from Southeast Asia\u2019s forests to the African savanna and the urban wilds of Los Angeles, documenting the world\u2019s big cats and the ways humans are succeeding or failing in living alongside them.<\/p>\n<p>Winter\u2019s iconic photos of tigers, jaguars, snow leopards, cougars and lions have earned some of the field\u2019s highest honors, including <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7696188.stm\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\">Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/a>.\u00a0He is also known for his innovative use of remote camera traps, which has allowed him to capture intimate glimpses of animals that are extraordinarily difficult to observe in the wild.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_332850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135043\/1-p144_p145_MM7231_071025_1334_00118016-copy.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-332850\" src=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135043\/1-p144_p145_MM7231_071025_1334_00118016-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A young male Bengal tiger trips a camera trap in India\u2019s Kaziranga National Park. Image \u00a9 Steve Winter\/Big Cat Voices.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135043\/1-p144_p145_MM7231_071025_1334_00118016-copy.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135043\/1-p144_p145_MM7231_071025_1334_00118016-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135043\/1-p144_p145_MM7231_071025_1334_00118016-copy-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135043\/1-p144_p145_MM7231_071025_1334_00118016-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135043\/1-p144_p145_MM7231_071025_1334_00118016-copy-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135043\/1-p144_p145_MM7231_071025_1334_00118016-copy-610x407.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young male Bengal tiger trips a camera trap in India\u2019s Kaziranga National Park. Image \u00a9 Steve Winter\/Big Cat Voices.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Guynup, an award-winning environmental journalist, and now, Mongabay\u2019s global wildlife editor, has penned prolific reporting on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/by\/sharon-guynup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">numerous topics<\/a>. She\u2019s especially known for her coverage of big cat conservation, expos\u00e9s on wildlife trafficking, documenting the creation of wildlife corridors, and alerting the world to the threats posed by zoonotic diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The two have been partners in life and work for 37 years (they married just last year), and together have produced investigations delivering real change. Their reporting on captive tigers in the U.S., for example, (featuring Steve\u2019s photos and Sharon\u2019s prose), revealed abuse and wildlife trafficking, contributing to the passage of a new law, the U.S. Big Cat Public Safety Act.<\/p>\n<p>In their new book <a href=\"https:\/\/books.disney.com\/book\/big-cats\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\"><em>Big Cats<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/books.disney.com\/book\/big-cats\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\">,<\/a> released Oct. 6, Winter and Guynup bring together 170 photographs and the stories behind some of their most extraordinary and impactful feline encounters, both in the wild and in captivity.<\/p>\n<p>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_332852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135144\/2-1-Sharon-and-I-Hadleigh-Svalbard-copy-scaled.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-332852\" src=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135144\/2-1-Sharon-and-I-Hadleigh-Svalbard-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Sharon Guynup and Steve Winter have worked collaboratively and independently for 25 years; photographed here in Svalbard. Image by Hadleigh Measham.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135144\/2-1-Sharon-and-I-Hadleigh-Svalbard-copy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135144\/2-1-Sharon-and-I-Hadleigh-Svalbard-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135144\/2-1-Sharon-and-I-Hadleigh-Svalbard-copy-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135144\/2-1-Sharon-and-I-Hadleigh-Svalbard-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135144\/2-1-Sharon-and-I-Hadleigh-Svalbard-copy-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135144\/2-1-Sharon-and-I-Hadleigh-Svalbard-copy-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135144\/2-1-Sharon-and-I-Hadleigh-Svalbard-copy-610x407.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Guynup and Steve Winter have worked collaboratively and independently for 25 years; photographed here in Svalbard. Image by Hadleigh Measham.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Mongabay:<\/strong> What was it that made you want to do this book now? In many ways, this seems like a retrospective of your respective careers, a magnum opus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sharon Guynup: <\/strong>Steve has photographed big cats for 25 years and I\u2019ve reported on them about that long. Some of the stories he did on his own, some we did together. But in doing this book we decided we wanted to work from a basic premise \u2014 impact. Which of our stories have had tangible impact?<\/p>\n<p>Stories about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevewinterphoto.com\/Photography\/Snow-Leopards\/1\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\">snow leopards<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2022\/12\/brazils-pantanal-is-at-risk-of-collapse-scientists-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">jaguars<\/a>, for example, saw local conservation benefits. Other stories helped bring about initiatives that made it economically viable for local people to coexist with cats, through ecotourism or the offering of compensation for livestock losses.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the Tiger Temple in Thailand, which we exposed and shut down \u2014 a tiger-petting Buddhist monastery. It was also a <em>Blackfish<\/em> moment of sorts for cub petting and hands-on animal contact. It showed the underbelly of that industry.<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s another very different example: P-22. Steve likes to say his picture of P-22 [with the Hollywood sign] made that cat a celebrity in the land of celebrities, and an international star.<\/p>\n<p>That photo sparked construction of what will be the world\u2019s largest wildlife overpass, built within a landscape hemmed in by 10-lane freeways. It connects the two best protected areas near L.A. [in the U.S,] with a wildlife corridor that goes over the 101 Freeway. The overpass opens December 2nd.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_332853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135216\/3-NationalGeographic_2366026_ccO3C_CR_SteveWinter_PAYMENT-REQUIRED-2-2.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-332853\" src=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135216\/3-NationalGeographic_2366026_ccO3C_CR_SteveWinter_PAYMENT-REQUIRED-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Winter sets up a camera trap in South Africa with local guides and filmmaker Bertie Gregory, right, while working on a story about leopards. Image \u00a9 Steve Winter\/Big Cat Voices.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135216\/3-NationalGeographic_2366026_ccO3C_CR_SteveWinter_PAYMENT-REQUIRED-2-2.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135216\/3-NationalGeographic_2366026_ccO3C_CR_SteveWinter_PAYMENT-REQUIRED-2-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135216\/3-NationalGeographic_2366026_ccO3C_CR_SteveWinter_PAYMENT-REQUIRED-2-2-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135216\/3-NationalGeographic_2366026_ccO3C_CR_SteveWinter_PAYMENT-REQUIRED-2-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135216\/3-NationalGeographic_2366026_ccO3C_CR_SteveWinter_PAYMENT-REQUIRED-2-2-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135216\/3-NationalGeographic_2366026_ccO3C_CR_SteveWinter_PAYMENT-REQUIRED-2-2-610x407.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Winter sets up a camera trap in South Africa with local guides and filmmaker Bertie Gregory, right, while working on a story about leopards. Image \u00a9 Steve Winter\/Big Cat Voices.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_332854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135223\/4-MM9129_250325_000031713.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-332854\" src=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135223\/4-MM9129_250325_000031713.jpg\" alt=\"Part of a pride of Asiatic lions in Gujarat, India. Image \u00a9 Steve Winter\/Big Cat Voices.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135223\/4-MM9129_250325_000031713.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135223\/4-MM9129_250325_000031713-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135223\/4-MM9129_250325_000031713-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135223\/4-MM9129_250325_000031713-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135223\/4-MM9129_250325_000031713-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135223\/4-MM9129_250325_000031713-610x407.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of a pride of Asiatic lions in Gujarat, India. Image \u00a9 Steve Winter\/Big Cat Voices.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Mongabay: <\/strong>You\u2019ve spent decades looking at big cats in their habitats. What do you think has changed most dramatically during that time? And what has surprised you the most in terms of what you\u2019ve witnessed?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Winter: <\/strong>As a photographer, I\u2019m often trying to get images of \u201cghost cats,\u201d animals that don\u2019t want to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>One of the big things that has happened: When I started photographing some of these cats, there hadn\u2019t been stories done before. Maybe there was some scientific work on them, but that\u2019s about it. And then I did a feature story, whether jaguars or snow leopards, and now there\u2019s this big [beneficial] ecotourism activity going on in the exact areas I was working.<\/p>\n<p>The change with jaguars is just absolutely amazing. From [my first assignment] \u2014 when the cowboys thought the only good jaguar was a dead jaguar \u2014 to now: A cow was maybe worth $2,000 in its lifetime. But each jaguar [today] brings in $108,000 a year in ecotourism income. Each one!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_332855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135230\/5-p048-p049_MM8421_160824_35109.tiff-denoise.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-332855\" src=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135230\/5-p048-p049_MM8421_160824_35109.tiff-denoise.jpg\" alt=\"A jaguar mother and cubs in the Brazilian Pantanal, the world\u2019s largest inland wetlands. Image \u00a9 Steve Winter\/Big Cat Voices.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135230\/5-p048-p049_MM8421_160824_35109.tiff-denoise.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135230\/5-p048-p049_MM8421_160824_35109.tiff-denoise-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135230\/5-p048-p049_MM8421_160824_35109.tiff-denoise-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135230\/5-p048-p049_MM8421_160824_35109.tiff-denoise-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135230\/5-p048-p049_MM8421_160824_35109.tiff-denoise-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135230\/5-p048-p049_MM8421_160824_35109.tiff-denoise-610x407.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A jaguar mother and cubs in the Brazilian Pantanal, the world\u2019s largest inland wetlands. Image \u00a9 Steve Winter\/Big Cat Voices.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Sharon Guynup:<\/strong> One of the biggest differences, in addition to those examples, and the larger populations of big cats that have resulted, is in technology \u2014 both in photography and in scientific monitoring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Winter:<\/strong> For me, I got to see firsthand how much information you could gather from cats with GPS collars in areas where there was human-animal conflict. One example: A billionaire rancher called up a scientist. I\u2019m standing right next to her. The rancher says, \u201cYour cat killed one of my cows last night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The researcher says, \u201cCan I come over now?\u201d And she brings her laptop, and showed him that \u201cher cat\u201d was 11 kilometers away when it supposedly killed the cow. \u201cOf course, it didn\u2019t,\u201d the rancher immediately said, \u201cThis is the kind of science we\u2019ve been waiting for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mongabay: <\/strong>I\u2019m curious how camera traps have changed the game. Obviously some of your very famous images were taken through camera traps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Winter: <\/strong>I wouldn\u2019t be who I am without them. I picked stories with the knowledge that the only way I would get images was to use camera traps. And then I waited years until I felt comfortable that I could bring back the images that would be one-of-a-kind, never seen before, because that\u2019s what my editor expected. And so, I waited.<\/p>\n<p>I did pre-visualizations in many instances. And then I tried to figure out how to get that image at that spot. Then with digital, you could look and see the behavior of the cat once it comes to the area.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_332847\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16134922\/0-BANNER-IMAGE-ALTERNARTE-p174_p175_MM7666_110121_0717_89344.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-332847\" src=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16134922\/0-BANNER-IMAGE-ALTERNARTE-p174_p175_MM7666_110121_0717_89344.jpg\" alt=\"A Bengal tiger in India, the cat\u2019s stronghold, home to about three-quarters of the world\u2019s remaining wild tigers. Image by Steve Winter\/Big Cat Voices.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16134922\/0-BANNER-IMAGE-ALTERNARTE-p174_p175_MM7666_110121_0717_89344.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16134922\/0-BANNER-IMAGE-ALTERNARTE-p174_p175_MM7666_110121_0717_89344-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16134922\/0-BANNER-IMAGE-ALTERNARTE-p174_p175_MM7666_110121_0717_89344-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16134922\/0-BANNER-IMAGE-ALTERNARTE-p174_p175_MM7666_110121_0717_89344-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16134922\/0-BANNER-IMAGE-ALTERNARTE-p174_p175_MM7666_110121_0717_89344-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16134922\/0-BANNER-IMAGE-ALTERNARTE-p174_p175_MM7666_110121_0717_89344-610x407.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Bengal tiger in India, the cat\u2019s stronghold, home to about three-quarters of the world\u2019s remaining wild tigers. Image \u00a9 Steve Winter\/Big Cat Voices.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Mongabay: <\/strong>I want to talk about P-22 and the Hollywood sign. Obviously, that mountain lion photo sparked conservation action, as Sharon said, with the new wildlife overpass. Over your career, what have you learned about what makes an image capable of moving people to that extent \u2014 to actually do something?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Winter:<\/strong> Well, to start with just basic things. Everybody loves big cats and everybody loves Hollywood, and you put them both together. I was [in Los Angeles] at a mountain lion meeting with the biologist and the idea just popped into my head. It\u2019s not like I had thought about it before. I just blurted out: \u201cWhat we really need to show urban wildlife would be a mountain lion with the Hollywood sign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because, like I said, you have to visualize these things. You know there\u2019s a trail in the park. You want the sign. You want a mountain lion to be walking by. I mean, P-22, obviously. And you put them both together and the magic happens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sharon Guynup:<\/strong> That photograph introduced Angelinos to P-22. And yes, there were people there that were worried [about big cats in the city]. But there was a lot of amazement and awe and excitement as well.<\/p>\n<p>And when the <em>Nat Geo<\/em> issue came out with P-22 and the Hollywood sign (an important detail is that they actually stopped the presses to insert the photo) that single image made that cat famous. And then L.A. totally fell in love with him.<\/p>\n<p>There are murals all over the city, in low-income neighborhoods, in the most elite neighborhoods. The entire city fell in love with that cat. And one thing that happened as a result is that L.A. added urban wildlife science curriculum into their schools.<\/p>\n<p>The L.A. County Natural History Museum installed a permanent exhibit. In October every year, somewhere around the 22<sup>nd<\/sup> of the month, it\u2019s P-22 day, and there\u2019s a festival. But most importantly, it shined a light on how horribly fractured the L.A. habitat is. The big cat population was becoming inbred with visible signs, like kinked tails.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_332857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135242\/7-Steve-and-Annenberg-Crossing_c-SharonGuynup.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-332857\" src=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135242\/7-Steve-and-Annenberg-Crossing_c-SharonGuynup.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Winter\u2019s photographs of P-22 (cutout) helped gain support for construction of what will be one of the world\u2019s largest wildlife overpasses across the 10-lane 101 Freeway near Los Angeles, California, U.S., providing safe passage for wildlife moving between two large protected areas. Image \u00a9 Steve Winter\/Big Cat Voices.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135242\/7-Steve-and-Annenberg-Crossing_c-SharonGuynup.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135242\/7-Steve-and-Annenberg-Crossing_c-SharonGuynup-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135242\/7-Steve-and-Annenberg-Crossing_c-SharonGuynup-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135242\/7-Steve-and-Annenberg-Crossing_c-SharonGuynup-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135242\/7-Steve-and-Annenberg-Crossing_c-SharonGuynup-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135242\/7-Steve-and-Annenberg-Crossing_c-SharonGuynup-610x407.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Winter\u2019s photographs of P-22 (cutout) helped gain support for construction of what will be one of the world\u2019s largest wildlife overpasses across the 10-lane 101 Freeway near Los Angeles, California, U.S., providing safe passage for wildlife moving between two large protected areas. Image \u00a9 Steve Winter\/Big Cat Voices.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Mongabay: <\/strong>What was the process like of writing your <em>Big Cat<\/em> book? It\u2019s written in Steve\u2019s voice, first-person, but I take it, Sharon, you did the writing. How much of this did you already know? Was there anything that he told you that surprised you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sharon Guynup:<\/strong> Well, Steve and I have been together a long time. I\u2019ve lived with him through these stories, and some of them we worked on together. Yes, there were times that I would interview him for the book, ask him how he felt about something that happened, how he would frame it, what he thought was important, and glean details from his field experiences.<\/p>\n<p>But then, whether I\u2019d worked on the story with him or not, I also contributed research on big cat conservation and natural history. It was a close collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I decided to write first person in Steve\u2019s voice resulted from an experiment. I wrote three paragraphs in third person, then went back and wrote three in first person. By writing in first person, I was better able to share Steve\u2019s field stories, and some of those images were really challenging for him to produce.<\/p>\n<p>For example, it took 15 months to get that picture of P-22 under the Hollywood sign. And Steve camped out for three months in 30 to 50 below zero weather in the Indian Himalayas to get those snow leopard pictures; all of which were camera traps. He camped at 15,000 feet, and some of the camera traps were up at 18,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>That was pretty brutal. And he\u2019s a jungle guy! He likes hot weather.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Winter<\/strong>: I hate mountains. If you go up a mountain, you have got to come down. And then you have to go up again.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_332860\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135304\/9-1p008-009_Big-Cats-Steve-Winter1.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-332860\" src=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135304\/9-1p008-009_Big-Cats-Steve-Winter1.jpg\" alt=\"A snow leopard captured on a camera trap in Hemis High Altitude National Park at about 4,500 meters (15,000 feet) in India\u2019s Himalaya. Image \u00a9 Steve Winter\/Big Cat Voices.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135304\/9-1p008-009_Big-Cats-Steve-Winter1.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135304\/9-1p008-009_Big-Cats-Steve-Winter1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135304\/9-1p008-009_Big-Cats-Steve-Winter1-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135304\/9-1p008-009_Big-Cats-Steve-Winter1-1200x798.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135304\/9-1p008-009_Big-Cats-Steve-Winter1-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135304\/9-1p008-009_Big-Cats-Steve-Winter1-610x406.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A snow leopard captured on a camera trap in Hemis High Altitude National Park at about 4,500 meters (15,000 feet) in India\u2019s Himalaya. Image \u00a9 Steve Winter\/Big Cat Voices.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Sharon Guynup:<\/strong> This is a book about big cats. It\u2019s obviously a photography book. But the basic premise is that targeted conservation can make a difference, even when you\u2019re trying to protect dangerous animals or wide-ranging animals. There are problems, and there are solutions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mongabay: <\/strong>I wonder if there is anything that you\u2019ve photographed or have written about that might seem like it\u2019s a conservation success at first, but the truth is much more complicated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sharon Guynup: <\/strong>Conservation is a constantly evolving process. It\u2019s not like you ever arrive.<\/p>\n<p>I remember Alan Rabinowitz [a world-renowned big cat expert] years ago asking why do cities need police? It\u2019s the same reason we need park guards and ongoing surveillance and protection. Conservation successes bring with them the next challenge.<\/p>\n<p>I think that\u2019s really obvious in our Asiatic lion story. Those cats once lived from Africa across Mesopotamia, Persia, all the way to eastern India. They\u2019re almost gone.<\/p>\n<p>There was one population left in Gujarat, about two dozen or so. And now they\u2019re up to about 900. But today all the protected areas are full, and the lions are moving out into the landscape. That poses new problems for people and lions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_332861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135310\/10-p002_p003_MM9129_241221_000025361.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-332861\" src=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135310\/10-p002_p003_MM9129_241221_000025361.jpg\" alt=\"A young male Asiatic lion gazes at a remote camera in a tree in Gir Wildlife Sanctuary in India. Concerted conservation efforts have brought this subspecies back from a few dozen in 1900 to about 900 today. Image \u00a9 Steve Winter\/Big Cat Voices.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135310\/10-p002_p003_MM9129_241221_000025361.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135310\/10-p002_p003_MM9129_241221_000025361-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135310\/10-p002_p003_MM9129_241221_000025361-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135310\/10-p002_p003_MM9129_241221_000025361-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135310\/10-p002_p003_MM9129_241221_000025361-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135310\/10-p002_p003_MM9129_241221_000025361-610x407.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young male Asiatic lion gazes at a remote camera in a tree in Gir Wildlife Sanctuary in India. Concerted conservation efforts have brought this subspecies back from a few dozen in 1900 to about 900 today. Image \u00a9 Steve Winter\/Big Cat Voices.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Mongabay:<\/strong> Do you have a moment in this big cat compendium that is most memorable to you, or a favorite photo?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Winter: <\/strong>My favorite shot is the one that makes the biggest difference. Obviously, there are ones that I may say, \u201cI really love this picture.\u201d But maybe it didn\u2019t have the power to create change that some of the other ones have had.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mongabay: <\/strong>What gives you hope for the future when you look back at what you\u2019ve witnessed through your careers?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Winter:<\/strong> Each human-big cat situation is unique, but finding ways to coexist in the landscapes where these cats live is key. What we mostly heard about early on, with lions in Africa or with jaguars in Latin America, is that it didn\u2019t even seem like there would ever be answers.<\/p>\n<p>But now things are moving forward, with livestock insurance, with ecotourism that brings money into local communities. In every one of these areas, things are working. But adjustments have to be made.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_332862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135316\/11-p154_p155_MMM7666_110131_90965-2.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-332862\" src=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135316\/11-p154_p155_MMM7666_110131_90965-2.jpg\" alt=\"A Bengal tiger crosses a waterway in the Sundarbans wetlands in India. Tigers are good swimmers and spend substantial time in the water. Image \u00a9 Steve Winter\/Big Cat Voices.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135316\/11-p154_p155_MMM7666_110131_90965-2.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135316\/11-p154_p155_MMM7666_110131_90965-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135316\/11-p154_p155_MMM7666_110131_90965-2-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135316\/11-p154_p155_MMM7666_110131_90965-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135316\/11-p154_p155_MMM7666_110131_90965-2-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135316\/11-p154_p155_MMM7666_110131_90965-2-610x407.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Bengal tiger crosses a waterway in the Sundarbans wetlands in India. Tigers are good swimmers and spend substantial time in the water. Image \u00a9 Steve Winter\/Big Cat Voices.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_332863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135321\/12-Sharon-Guynup-and-Steve-Winter-SRI-LANKA.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-332863\" src=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135321\/12-Sharon-Guynup-and-Steve-Winter-SRI-LANKA.jpg\" alt=\"Guynup, a journalist and producer, and Winter, a wildlife photojournalist and filmmaker, frequently collaborate on projects. This selfie was taken in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka. Image \u00a9 Sharon Guynup\/Big Cat Voices.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135321\/12-Sharon-Guynup-and-Steve-Winter-SRI-LANKA.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135321\/12-Sharon-Guynup-and-Steve-Winter-SRI-LANKA-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135321\/12-Sharon-Guynup-and-Steve-Winter-SRI-LANKA-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135321\/12-Sharon-Guynup-and-Steve-Winter-SRI-LANKA-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/16135321\/12-Sharon-Guynup-and-Steve-Winter-SRI-LANKA-610x458.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guynup, a journalist and producer, and Winter, a wildlife photojournalist and filmmaker, frequently collaborate on projects. This selfie was taken in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka. Image \u00a9 Sharon Guynup\/Big Cat Voices.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Sharon Guynup:<\/strong> Place to place, there is progress. But in general, big cat numbers are dropping. For example, every tiger species is endangered or critically endangered. Of the tigers, the Bengal is the only one that\u2019s in pretty good shape. But tiger poaching in India is skyrocketing.<\/p>\n<p>Just because you\u2019ve made progress, it doesn\u2019t mean the fight is over.<\/p>\n<p>What gives me hope beyond efforts to reconnect wild landscapes, is that there are really amazing people that are doing phenomenal work.<\/p>\n<p>And the public is maybe starting to understand the bigger picture a little better. Many people don\u2019t realize how important predators are to an ecosystem in maintaining balance. We need to think differently about wildlife and nature. Not that animals are just there for our use. But their presence is crucial to our own existence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Winter:<\/strong> People are really taken by the fact that real change has come from these stories. Story after story, there was something that happened that has had a positive influence. That gives me hope.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Banner image:<\/strong> P-22, a cougar photographed in Los Angeles\u2019 Griffith Park. He crossed two of the busiest freeways in the U.S., the 101 and 405, to find his own territory. Image \u00a9 Steve Winter\/Big Cat Voices.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>FEEDBACK: <a href=\"https:\/\/form.jotform.com\/70284580836159\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\">Use this form<\/a> to send a message to the author of this post. 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