Humans Killing Most Mountain Lions in California Despite Protections
UC Davis Mountain lions are protected from hunting in California by a law passed by popular vote in 1990. However, a team of researchers working ac...
UC Davis Mountain lions are protected from hunting in California by a law passed by popular vote in 1990. However, a team of researchers working across the state found that human-caused mortality-primarily involving conflict with humans over livestock and collisions with vehicles-was more common than natural death for this protected large carnivore. The study, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was led by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, along with a broad team of coauthoring California researchers, including from the University of California, Davis.