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Roadkill rate for California cougars puts population at risk

FILE PHOTO: National Park Service photo of the Griffith Park mountain lion known as P-22 is shown in this remote camera image set up on a fresh deer kill in Griffith Park in this November 2014 photo. P-22, a radio-collared puma that became a wildlife celebrity, was one of the many mountain lions struck by a car in California. REUTERS/National Park Service/Handout

Los Angeles, US Reuters Mountain lions have been dying on California highways at the rate of at least one or two every week in recent years, a roadkill toll that may exceed healthy reproductive levels for the big cats, new wildlife mortality data showed on Thursday. Maps documenting deadly highway crossings – clustered most heavily […]