January 2014 Newsletter
Posted in Cougar Rewilding Foundation, Education, Encounters, Florida, Florida Panther, Illinois, Nebraska, Recolonization, S. Dakota on Jan 28th, 2014
Smoke Bomb & Backhoe Cougar Management
Category Archive for 'Florida'
Right Time, Wrong Place: Female Panther Released
Posted in Education, Florida, Florida Panther, Government Agency, Preservation, Recolonization, Reintroduction, USFWS on Oct 15th, 2013
The joyous event back in January is marred by this female’s release location. The Picayune Strand is within spitting distance of the I-75 killing corridor that has claimed countless panthers. Here, too, was a wasted opportunity to put a potential breeder north of the Caloosahatchee River barrier, which a female has yet to cross. The […]
A Classic Case of Mistaken Identity
Posted in Eastern Cougar, Education, Florida, Florida Panther, Pennsylvania, Unconfirmed Sightings on Apr 6th, 2013
Reviewing pics like these from Wellsboro, PA used to be our bread and butter. But 14 years of looking at hundreds of bobcat and housecat photographs reported as cougars, with only one cougar confirmation from Nova Scotia to Mississippi crossing our desks (Greenwich, CT 2011) since 1999, helped us realize the ubiquity of misidentifications. Compare […]
Go North Young Cats
Posted in Florida, Florida Panther, Florida Panther Reintroduction, Recolonization, Reintroduction on Apr 6th, 2013
We wish we could bless the release this week of two captive-reared panthers into the wild. However, releasing a pair of captive-raised two-year olds into a system at carrying capacity, unequipped for the territorial fights – especially the male – that take so many young cats in South Florida, might be a virtual death-sentence. Letting […]
Panther Habitat Sacrificed to Build FGCU
Posted in Florida, Florida Panther, USFWS on Mar 30th, 2013
Same old South Florida same old. Mother Jones
Record Panther Roadkills; CBD Calls for Reintroductions
Posted in Florida, Florida Panther, Florida Panther Reintroduction on Dec 24th, 2012
The record number of panther roadkills in 2012 suggest that panthers have run out of room in southwest Florida. The Cougar Rewilding Foundation recruited the Center for Biological Diversity to draft the panther restoration petition cited in the article, restorations mandated in the the most recent panther recovery plan. Center for Biological Diversity press release […]
One Panther Paw Forward, Two Paws…
Posted in Florida, Florida Panther, Preservation, USFWS on Sep 9th, 2012
The plan to make plans for panther recovery to what has already been identified as marginal Central Florida habitat is a pyrrhic recovery gesture. 2 X 240 new target recovery populations isn’t unrealistic; it’s mandated in the recovery plan, where relocation sites in North Florida, Southern Georgia and elsewhere throughout the Southeast have already been […]
Carcass of 4.5-year-old radiocollared male Florida panther found in Lee County
Posted in Florida, Florida Panther, Radio Collar Tracking on Jul 21st, 2012
At this time last year, 20 panthers were known to have died. The most common causes of death are vehicle strikes and fights with other panthers over territories. The panthers that die on highways are essentially being “harvested” by vehicles instead of panther hunters. It’s a shame that some of these cats aren’t relocated to […]