Articles for tag: BigCats, EndangeredSpecies, FloridaPanther, wildlife

brown cougar sitting on rock ledge

Florida Panthers Make Their Strongest Return in Decades

Suhail Ahmed

  Once vanishing into the mangroves like a rumor, the Florida panther has turned a corner that few dared to imagine in the 1990s. This is a comeback story with claws: genetics, grit, and a long game of habitat chess across a fast-growing state. The stakes are still sharp – roads slice through ranges, rising ...

a close up of a mountain lion laying on the ground

Florida Panthers Making a Comeback

Suhail Ahmed

I remember stepping onto a sandy trail at dawn and finding a single paw print as neat as a stamp – four toes, no claw marks, the calling card of a ghost. For decades, the Florida panther felt like a rumor, an echo prowling the swamps at the edge of memory. Now, that rumor is ...