It’s no accident that many areas of Thousand Oaks are surrounded by natural hillsides with no housing developments on top of them, like so many other parts of Southern California. One big reason is the Conejo Open Space Conservation Agency (COSCA), a joint powers authority created in 1977 by the Read more…
Experts say collaring the wolves and tracking their movements is a critical part of rehabilitating the diminished population. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, March 26, 2023 Two members of California’s small but rebounding gray wolf population have been located and given tracking collars, bolstering the state’s conservation Read more…
Flooded Central Valley fields are being used to replenish groundwater Source of this article, the Los Angeles Times, March 21, 2023 As storms have drenched Northern California, water diverted from the swollen Sacramento River has been flowing from a canal and pouring onto 200 acres of farmland. For more than Read more…
The mountain lion, also known as cougar or puma (Puma concolor), is the fourth largest wild cat in the world, surpassed only by the tiger, lion, and jaguar. Source of this article: The Winter 2023 Newsletter from the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy These magnificent animals can run at speeds of Read more…
Members of 4 tribes honor the beloved cougar with a burial in an undisclosed spot Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, March 7, 2023 P-22, the mountain lion who prowled Griffith Park for more than a decade, was buried Saturday in an intimate tribal ceremony in the Santa Read more…
Vehicle strikes, rat poison, inbreeding, urban encroachment and wildfire are contributing to an ‘extinction vortex’ for mountain lions. Source of this story: The Los Angeles Times, February 4, 2023 In the last eight years there have been 535 mountain lions reported killed on California highways — a steady toll of Read more…
State wildlife officials retrieved the cub, which was in poor health and appeared to be orphaned, on Monday and brought the animal to Oakland Zoo for care. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, December 23, 2022 Veterinary staff at the Oakland Zoo and state wildlife officials are closely Read more…
Banning Ranch is home to roughly 167 acres of marshes, mudflats, riparian scrub and coastal sage scrub that provides habitat for sensitive species Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, December 20, 2022 The nonprofit Trust for Public Land on Friday completed the purchase of an oil field that Read more…
Beloved mountain lion euthanized due to severe injuries Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, December 18, 2023 The mountain lion P-22, who lived in the heart of Los Angeles for more than a decade and became the face of an international campaign to save Southern California’s threatened pumas, Read more…
Four female kittens were found and will be part of the National Park Service’s 20-year-study on mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains. Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, December 14, 2022 Four new mountain lion kittens are prowling in a rocky area of the western Santa Monica Read more…