A new confirmation, the eastern puma or cougar is extinct. It had been talked about for years, in 2011 the US Fish and Wildlife Service had already sanctioned its disappearance since no specimens have been sighted since the 30s but now the extinction of the cougar is official
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A new confirmation, the eastern puma or cougar is extinct. It had been talked about for years, in 2011 the US Fish and Wildlife Service had already sanctioned its disappearance since no specimens have been sighted since the 30s but now the extinction of the cougar is official.
Also known as lion Mountain, this animal is a subspecies of eastern puma that lived in Ohio, Tennessee and Virginia.
“From the US Fish and Wildlife Service, we determine the extinction of the eastern cougar based on the best scientific and commercial information available. This information does not show any evidence of the existence of a still existing reproductive population or of individuals from the Eastern puma subspecies. It is also highly unlikely that a population will remain undetected after the last confirmed sighting in 1938. Therefore, under the authority of the Endangered Species Act 1973 we remove this subspecies from the Federal List of Endangered Species and Threatened Wildlife "Do know the American scientists.
The decision to remove him from the Federal List completes a process started in 2015. More than anything else, it is the official recognition of its extinction given that its traces had been lost for decades. For a species to be considered endangered, its existence must be ascertained but the last sighted member of cougar dates back to the XNUMXs.
"Given the length of time that passed without being able to see even a single eastern puma, the Service concludes that the last remaining members of this subspecies died decades ago," explains the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
In recent decades it was thought that there were others alive but genetic tests have shown that they were animals that came from other continents, probably held captive and then escaped.
Overall, the puma was once the most widespread land mammal in the Western Hemisphere. Its decline is the result of poisoning, trapping, hunting and bounty programs aimed at wiping out the species, along with the loss of woodland habitat and a sharp decline in the 1800s of the white-tailed deer, the cougar's main food source.
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