Today it was reported that one of our local mountain lions was killed as a result of a depredation permit taken out by a local family who lost sheep to this animal. It’s heartbreaking as the mountain lions here in Southern California and particularly the Santa Monica Mountains are in severe decline …

https://www.egret.org/living-with-lions https://www.sonomamag.com/mountain-lions-in-our-midst-and-a-mans-mission-to-save-them/ Some work on protecting lions in Sonoma County. Living With Lions program via Audubon Canyon Ranch. Worth a look

The state government should make available funds to allow those who breed sheeps and other animals to build a fence so there would not be any necessity of killing protected wild animals.

I’m not certain there are many types of fence that would keep out a mountain lion… but subsidizing loss due to predation sounds like a good idea.

These folks do great work on the issue, including advocacy, education, and working through solutions with depredation permit holders https://www.mountainlion.org/

Cape Town has similar issues with baboons. Permits are issued and male baboons who raid unsecured waste … are euthanased. Instead of enforcing municipal regulations to secure waste if you live in the territory of wild baboons. The problem animal is not the baboon. Also Cape leopards. Anatolian shee…

Yea that sucks. Seems like it shouldn’t be the mountain lion’s problem that someone decided to have a bunch of unsecured sheep in that particular spot.

I’ve heard of systems like that in Europe where wolves are starting to come back and occasionally kill livestock.

It appears that they are inbreeding because it is a closed population. This won’t be remedied by stopping the issue of depredation permits, unfortunately. The threat is urban sprawl, and that threat is far, far more severe than that of depredation culling. Urban sprawl won’t stop or decline as long …

Depredation permits for mountain lions and other species

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