These cats can swim long distances and hop between islands more commonly that we thought, which has big implications for their conservation
, a broad coalition of researchers, Native American tribes, land trusts, and others committed to mountain lion conservation and research, as well as identifying and protecting wildlife corridors.
“I-5 is killing us,” Elbroch says. “It’s killing the peninsula—we need to address this immediately.” There are two spots where wildlife passages could be built, but time is running out to protect these corridors as development and sprawl continue, he says.Nolan, who scientists tagged along with his mother in January 2020, set out on his own in April of that year. He bounced around a bit, finding his way into several towns north of Olympia.
A swimming cougar in British Columbia. Mountain lions may be able to swim a mile or more in certain circumstances.For this reason, islanders in cougar habitat shouldn’t leave livestock unattended, saysThe findings were “not terribly surprising to me, but still very interesting and important… We shouldn’t always see water as a barrier to movement to any large carnivore,” Beausoleil says.
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