
photo: Stig Nygaard
There are only about 100 Florida panthers left in the wild. And last year 17 of them were killed by collisions with cars, Defenders of Wildlife says (hat tip to Mongabay…). The last of those deaths occurred on the 30th of December, when a four-year old female cat was killed in Collier County. 2009′s deaths set a new record for panther deaths due to veh… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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