#pumas

[justcatposts]

🔥 A gorgeous little puma cub checking out a wildlife cam 🔥

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[cristalplanetheart]

[daily-big-cat]

Daily Big Cat

[jadeseadragon]

Repost @aaronbaggenstos

"Day 2 Pumas of Patagonia. A hard 1 hour uphill hike at max effort rewarded us with this view into the softer side of mountain lion motherhood and unconditional love."

[paouwolff]

A lo que fui a Torres del Paine.

[camtasticalsocks]

No puma emojis LoL 🐆🐈🦁

[herpsandbirds]

'That’s a bloodbath': How a federal program kills wildlife for private interests

A federal program kills hundreds of thousands of wild animals a year. Documents obtained by NPR show that many of those animals were killed

'That’s a bloodbath': How a federal program kills wildlife for private interests

The USDA’s Wildlife Services program is a holdover from the 1930s, when Congress gave the federal government broad authority to kill wildlife at the request of private landowners. In that era, government-sponsored extermination programs for native wild animals, like wolves and grizzly bears, were common. After the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, federal agencies were required to change course and start helping some of those wild animal populations recover. But today, Wildlife Services employees still kill hundreds of thousands of noninvasive animals a year, data from the agency shows. Even species considered threatened under the Endangered Species Act, like grizzly bears, are not exempt. So long as livestock or human life are threatened, federal rules allow Wildlife Services to kill those animals, too...