<story><title>P-22 has been euthanized</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64006005</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akiselev</author><text>Please write to your Congress people in support of wildlife crossings [1]! Here in California especially, much of our infrastructure is aging and needs to be rebuilt in the coming decade. This is the perfect time to get wildlife crossings into the political zeitgeist so that every large highway and road infrastructure project sets aside funds to build either cut and cover wildlife crossings [2] or raised crossing [3].&lt;p&gt;Out here in East County San Diego we&amp;#x27;ve got much more open space for our mountain lion population but they often face the same difficulty safely crossing the I8. Thankfully, even though they eat lots of farm animals every year (one mountain lion ate my neighbor&amp;#x27;s goat last year!), everyone tries really hard to scare them away without harming them (and especially avoid poisoning them)&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Wildlife_crossing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Wildlife_crossing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&amp;#x2F;wikipedia&amp;#x2F;commons&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;3b&amp;#x2F;WildlifeCrossingA1IsraelSept202022_01.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&amp;#x2F;wikipedia&amp;#x2F;commons&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;3b&amp;#x2F;Wildlife...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discoverapega.ca&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;Photo-courtesy-of-Joel-Sartore-purchased-from-NatGeo_679002-feature.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discoverapega.ca&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;Photo-co...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>P-22 has been euthanized</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64006005</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>Habitat destruction and breaking up habitat into excessively small, unconnected spaces is a big issue:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The specie&amp;#x27;s habitats have been choked off by California&amp;#x27;s freeways. Though as many as 6,000 mountain lions live in California, researchers believe the population in the Santa Monica Mountains... could die out in 50 years...&lt;p&gt;The great slashes of asphalt also make journeys to new homes potentially deadly. In September, a pregnant mountain lion was struck and killed when she tried to cross a Malibu highway, which bisects a key swathe of habitat. She and her four unborn cubs all had traces of rat poison in their systems.&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>