On Mountain Lions: How to Embrace our Wild Predatory Relatives
In this industrialized country, we have had a war on wild what we call "predators," helicopter gunners shooting wolves to “protect” caribou herds in Alaska. Every day is open season on mountain lions in Nevada. Between 2000 and 2021, at least 4,229 mountain lions were killed in Nevada by hunters, trappers, and the state’s lethal removal effort, according to data from the Nevada Department of Wildlife. Humans are the greatest threat to mountain lions. In California, close to 40 million people live within, or adjacent to, cougar habitat. In this show we air parts of a documentary series called…
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