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Delve deeper into hot topics featured in NGM’s August Geographica with help from Resources. Click on a link, pick up a periodical, browse through a book, and explore!
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Crossbreeding between the Florida panther and a Texas subspecies in 1995 may be reducing genetic defects in the Florida cat and thus increasing its population. Census tallies from a decade ago counted between 30 and 50 in southwestern Florida, but a recent count raises its numbers to around 80.
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Florida Panther Society
www.atlantic.net/~oldfla/panther/recovery.html
Learn what is being done to save the Florida panther and return it to a self-sustaining population.
Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Status of Listed Species and Recovery Plan Development: Florida Panther
www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/others/recoprog/states/species/feliconc.htm
This site explains the current status of Florida panthers and outlines efforts to secure their future.
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“America’s Great Wild Cat.” National Geographic WORLD (January 1985), 4-8.
Maehr, David S. The Florida Panther: Life and Death of a Vanishing Carnivore. Island Press, 1997.
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