An estimated 120 to 230 adult Florida panthers live in the wild in the state's southwestern corner, where they are faced with a booming human population and the accompanying ... panther refuge was ...

By far the greatest threats to Florida panthers are habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation — all driven by Florida's burgeoning human population and the developments ... but early the next year, ...

so we saw panthers getting hit in areas outside of their core range of the 1980’s and 1990’s. The human population continues to grow in South Florida.” ...

"We have a growing human population and the infrastructure ... endangered since 1967. A 26,600-acre panther refuge was established in 1989 next to the Big Cypress National Preserve, west of ...