World’s largest wildlife crossing one step closer to becoming a reality

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It was a balmy Los Angeles evening in February 2012 and wildlife biologist Miguel Ordeñana was seated behind a glaring screen, ritualistically flipping through trail-camera photos captured in California’s Griffith Park. As Ordeñana scrolled through a seemingly endless gallery of raccoons, rabbits, and “deer butts”, he came across something truly startling: the unmistakable rear end of a mountain lion. “It was like finding Bigfoot,” he recalled in P-22: The Cat That Changed America, a documentary about the now-famous puma. This was the start of life in the limelight for the Griffith Park puma, a celebrity cat who has become the face of conservation in Los Angeles and a prime motivator in efforts to build the world’s largest wildlife crossing. … continue reading.