What Can You Do to Help?
Donate
Corporations, private residents, and government organizations must work together to maintain Florida's natural regions if the Florida panther is to reproduce and hunt effectively in an increasingly developed terrain. The Pumas' primary habitat is outside of Naples, near the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge, and the Florida Panther Interagency Committee has designated this property as a major conservation priority (made up by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). Organizations like the conservation fund, are working towards protecting those lands. In 2011, they were able to save nearly 650 acres of prime panther habitat and are still working towards doing everything they can to help the Save the Florida Panther. Donating to the Conservation Fund, as well as other Florida Puma Conservation Organizations such as the National Wildlife Federation, you can help make a difference and save a species.
Help Protect Their Habitat
The biggest threat to the Florida Panther today is habitat loss and human development/human interference. You can help the Pumas by doing your part to help protect their Land: In order for their survival and the puma’s replenishment, it is completely necessary that we do everything in our power to protect their land from development, to connect conservation areas, and keep the pumas safe and away form roads and other aspects of human life that threaten the pumas. Some ways you can help to protect their land are by writing to your local and government officials as well as groups and organizations with any ideas you may have to help that would protect their lands and the pumas from our developments.
You can help in the smallest of ways!