Articles for tag: big cats of florida, conservation success, endangered species recovery, Florida panthers, Florida Wildlife

Florida Panthers Achieve Strong Population Recovery

Suhail Ahmed

The Florida panther story was never supposed to turn around. This ghost of the Everglades once hovered near vanishing, with only a few dozen left and a gene pool on fumes. Yet today, tracking data, den checks, and road‑mortality records point to a population that’s recovered to roughly the low hundreds and is pushing its ...