In booming south Florida—home to the only remaining breeding population of panthers—housing and highway projects continue to slash and shrink precious habitat [1]. Collisions with motor vehicles [2] are now a leading cause of panther deaths.
Another impediment to panther recovery is the lack of human tolerance [3] for living with a large predator. Peoples’ fear that panthers are dangerous to people and livestock complicates efforts to restore panther populations.