Comments on: Record Number of Endangered Panthers Killed by Vehicles http://ecolocalizer.com/2010/01/10/record-number-of-endangered-panthers-killed-by-vehicles/ News & commentary on sustainability, activism, urban planning, politics, and our world. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:32:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Record Number of Endangered Panthers Killed by Vehicles http://ecolocalizer.com/2010/01/10/record-number-of-endangered-panthers-killed-by-vehicles/comment-page-1/#comment-63289 Record Number of Endangered Panthers Killed by Vehicles Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:28:25 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=5313#comment-63289 [...] Read more of this story » [...] [...] Read more of this story » [...]

]]> By: Helen McGinnis http://ecolocalizer.com/2010/01/10/record-number-of-endangered-panthers-killed-by-vehicles/comment-page-1/#comment-63296 Helen McGinnis Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:52:59 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=5313#comment-63296 The article ignores what really needs to be done to save the southern panther: (1) designate Critical Habitat for the panther in its present range in southern Florida. Five environmental organizations led by the Center for Biological Diversity and the Conservancy of SW Florida have filed petitions requesting the US Fish & Wildlife Service to do that. These groups will file lawsuits against the Service if it does not respond by late February 2010. (2) Reintroduce panthers to areas in their former range outside of southern Florida. The latest Recovery Plan for the panther, issued in December 2008, makes it clear that there is no chance of removing them from the Endangered Species list until this is done. Approximately 8-100 panthers now live in southern Florida; probably this is close to the carrying capacity. They are hemmed in by development in SE Florida and the channelized Caloosahatchee River on the NW. A few young males have managed to get across the River, but no females. Approximately 40 panther kittens are being born each year. When it’s time to leave their mothers, they have no place to go. They end up dead on highways or killed by adult males in fights over territory. Thanks to global warming, the sea level is gradually rising. Much of southern Florida will be inundated in the coming decades. Studies have identified suitable habitat in other southeastern states. The FWS needs to establish a timeline for reintroducing panthers. The article ignores what really needs to be done to save the southern panther: (1) designate Critical Habitat for the panther in its present range in southern Florida. Five environmental organizations led by the Center for Biological Diversity and the Conservancy of SW Florida have filed petitions requesting the US Fish & Wildlife Service to do that. These groups will file lawsuits against the Service if it does not respond by late February 2010.

(2) Reintroduce panthers to areas in their former range outside of southern Florida. The latest Recovery Plan for the panther, issued in December 2008, makes it clear that there is no chance of removing them from the Endangered Species list until this is done. Approximately 8-100 panthers now live in southern Florida; probably this is close to the carrying capacity. They are hemmed in by development in SE Florida and the channelized Caloosahatchee River on the NW. A few young males have managed to get across the River, but no females.

Approximately 40 panther kittens are being born each year. When it’s time to leave their mothers, they have no place to go. They end up dead on highways or killed by adult males in fights over territory.

Thanks to global warming, the sea level is gradually rising. Much of southern Florida will be inundated in the coming decades.

Studies have identified suitable habitat in other southeastern states. The FWS needs to establish a timeline for reintroducing panthers.

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]]> By: Gerard Vaughan http://ecolocalizer.com/2010/01/10/record-number-of-endangered-panthers-killed-by-vehicles/comment-page-1/#comment-63291 Gerard Vaughan Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:17:20 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=5313#comment-63291 How to slow it all down - without resourting to "bromide in the water". Yah, a war we are "winning" with ease. We will be last to "go". Un-interested in living in a zoo of our own creation. I can see the Taliban's point - so why they want to blow me to pieces ? How to slow it all down – without resourting to “bromide in the water”.
Yah, a war we are “winning” with ease. We will be last to “go”. Un-interested in living in a zoo of our own creation.
I can see the Taliban’s point – so why they want to blow me to pieces ?

]]> By: Dog Gift http://ecolocalizer.com/2010/01/10/record-number-of-endangered-panthers-killed-by-vehicles/comment-page-1/#comment-63288 Dog Gift Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:47:11 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=5313#comment-63288 Humanity seems to have a never ending supply of weaponry in our war on endangered animals - unlike Afghanistan - this is a war we're winning with ease. It saddens me that victory is in sight. Not long now till we've collectively wiped the big cats from the world. Humanity seems to have a never ending supply of weaponry in our war on endangered animals – unlike Afghanistan – this is a war we’re winning with ease.
It saddens me that victory is in sight. Not long now till we’ve collectively wiped the big cats from the world.

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