![]() ![]() ![]() “They can’t get out of here to get dates, and cats can’t get in to get dates. “When the freeway went in, it cut off an ecosystem. Scientists who’ve tracked the big cats via GPS have expressed alarm over how the animals are being trapped in the increasingly urbanized, fragmented mountain region.īeth Pratt of the National Wildlife Federation told the Associated Press: Since 2002, the National Park Service has been studying over 50 mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains, which run along the Ventura County and the Malibu Coast through the middle of Los Angeles to Hollywood’s Griffith Park, where P-22 now lives. Officials and experts hope that it will not only preserve the shrinking biodiversity of the region but will also prevent creatures like famous local mountain lions P-22 and P-61 from being kept in isolation, afraid of roaming their natural habitat and meeting mates or worse, risking becoming roadkill just to cross the massive thoroughfares. National Wildlife Federation December 22, 2014 Gorgeous Mountain Lion Strolls Through a California Backyard - Full Story: #SaveLACougars /uev0VhzYsg in Agoura Hills, a town near the border dividing Los Angeles and Ventura counties, and will be both the world’s largest animal overpass and the very first of its kind lying near a major city. The Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing along the 101, slated to stretch 200 feet above 10 lanes of busy highway, will lie just 35 miles northwest of downtown L.A. Now, transportation officials and conservationists hope that they can prevent the extinction of the region’s endemic species with an ambitious plan to build a massive animal overpass above Southern California’s massive freeway, the U.S. To this day, the Santa Monica Mountains looming above the region’s communities still teem with wildlife such as large raptors, mountain lions, bears, coyote, deer, lizards, and snakes-but their numbers have rapidly faded in recent years. Lost in outsiders’ popular perception of the Greater Los Angeles Metropolitan Area is the vast wildlife that once resided where suburban towns have been built. ( TMU) - When people typically imagine Southern California, a few things come to mind: vast freeways, heavy traffic, the storied SoCal car culture, and a huge urban expanse surrounded by suburbia and covered in pavement. ![]()
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