By now you’re no doubt familiar with the life story of P-22, the Hollywood mountain lion who’s made a home...
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We are in our third phase of fundraising for the wildlife crossing and are working towards reaching our $10M goal by June 2018. This phase is a critical part of the project and where you can make a real difference! It allows for the final design and engineering to be completed. Then we will move into the fourth, and final phase, construction.
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THE CAUSE
THE WILDLIFE CROSSING
We all know LA traffic is a nightmare, but not only for humans. Our traffic is killing precious wildlife. Mountain lions living near Los Angeles are facing extinction and being killed attempting to cross the freeways. The National Park Service (NPS) reports that since 2002, they have studied over 60 mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains area and have found one main issue: their homes have been cut off. Busy Freeways and urban development throughout Los Angeles has created a population of lions with the lowest genetic diversity measured anywhere in the entire U.S. outside of Florida panthers. These roads have killed 17 lions since the study began.
The only thing that can save these big cats is the ability to move between regions. With multiple large freeways surronding the lions, the National Wildlife Federation partnered with the Santa Monica Mountains Fund and large community of supporters to create the #SaveLACougars campaign. This campaign focuses on building something really cool: a wildlife crossing over the 101 freeway at Liberty Canyon, for animals to use and safely cross above 10 lanes of LA traffic. With your help, we’re going to re-connect a precious ecosystem.
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The #SaveLACougars campaign kicked off in 2014 with the goal of saving and protecting the mountain lions of the Santa Monica Mountains. Read more about our efforts and the team fighting to save these cats from extinction.
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We all know LA traffic is a nightmare, but not only for humans. Our traffic is killing precious wildlife. Join the National Wildlife Federation and the Santa Monica Mountains Fund to protect our Angelino cougars.
Prefer to donate by check? Make your check out to National Wildlife Federation with #SaveLACougars in the memo line. Mail your check to Beth Pratt, NWF, PO Box 64, Midpines, CA 95345. Thank you!
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22 hours 28 minutes ago
This cougar can share my water hole anytime...
Whew, it was hot out there today. Have a nice cold drink! (This lion is not in a cage - she is outside the fence behind her, which surrounds a water tank)
3 days 8 hours ago
Hola todos! Ayer organizamos un tour al sitio en donde se construirá el Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing y invitamos a dos talentosos profesionales de Univision 34 Los Angeles, Gabriela Teissier y Guillermo Quiroz. Ambos ya son parte del equipo LA Cougar!
3 days 10 hours ago
Hey fans, how about some new cougar kittens to start your day? Welcome P-66, P-67, P-68, and P-69!
Start your morning off right with kittens!
Our researchers recently discovered a litter of four mountain lion kittens in the Simi Hills. All four kittens are females and are now known as P-66, P-67, P-68, and P-69. The mother is P-62, who researchers have been tracking since January.
Biologists visited the den site while she was away on June 11, locating it after several previous attempts failed because radio telemetry showed that she was still at the den with her kittens. This is the first kitten den researchers have documented in the Simi Hills.The kittens were found on the 2,668-acre Santa Susana Field Laboratory site, with the cooperation of The Boeing Company.
National Park Service biologists took tissue samples,
conducted a general health check, and marked the kittens with ear tags. The blue-eyed, spotted kittens weighed between four and five pounds and were around four and half weeks of age.
The National Park Service has been studying mountain lions in and around the Santa Monica Mountains since 2002 to determine how they survive in an increasingly fragmented and urbanized environment. -Ranger Ana Beatriz
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