California wildlife officials on Thursday voted to list six small, isolated mountain lion populations as threatened under the ...

State agencies are now mandated to protect the big cats, which have been increasingly vulnerable due to habitat loss ...

The vote secured the Southern California and Central Coast mountain lions as a distinct population segment (DPS) and listed both populations as threatened under CESA because of their vulnerability to ...

California granted permanent protections to mountain lions in a large swatch of the state on Thursday, adding the pumas to ...

Just weeks after a mountain lion wandered into San Francisco, state officials voted to permanently protect populations of the charismatic predators that prowl the coastal mountains between the Bay ...

Mountain lions in Southern California could soon be considered a threatened species, with officials saying that they face threats posed by freeways, rat poison and wildfires. The California Department ...