by Louis Sahagun of the LA Times As 101 Freeway traffic streaked past, a dozen conservationists and fundraisers gathered this...
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wildlife activists need $60 million - by Louis Sahagun
To build a bridge for mountain lions,
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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 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.
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3 days 21 hours ago
Hey fans! I'm a pretty chill cougar, and most of my kin really want nothing to do with humans.
Don't live in fear of us mountain lions. As I have shown, coexistence is possible. It’s very tragic anytime someone is hurt or killed, but it’s also important to keep in mind attacks by us mountain lions are very, very rare—under 20 in California, since 1986, with three being fatal. For comparison, 3,751 people died in 2016 alone from auto accidents in CA. So you are much safer hiking in Griffith Park with me than driving on the 101. I really just want to eat deer most of the time. Maybe a racoon snack regularly. And then there are koalas...
You should always respect wild animals like me, but just know most human--mountain lion encounters are without incident. This National Geographic article gives lots of good information and puts the risk in perspective.
"But the fact that roughly 120 attacks on humans have been documented over more than a century suggests the rarity of the occurrence, given that millions of people live among hundreds of thousands of cats."
Cougar That Killed Cyclist Was Underweight, Likely Desperate
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A rare fatal encounter in Washington State, which left another mountain biker injured, may point to wider questions about our evolving coexistence with big predators.
5 days 7 hours ago
Got to hang with Congressman Adam Schiff, Democracy defender and cougar conservationist, over the weekend--here he is showing some LA cougar pride!
“Of course I know P-22,” he said. “I was speaking to someone from Africa and they were talking up their lions, and I told them, hey, we have our own lion in LA.”
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Hey fans! Want to know how you can help protect California wildlife like ME?
Vote #YesOn68 to support habitat restoration and wildlife corridors along with cleaner drinking water and safer parks statewide.
And yes, the wildlife crossing at Liberty Canyon will be eligible to apply for some of these funds if it passes!
Brought to you by: California Cougars for Prop 68 😀
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