A reward for information that leads to an arrest and/or a conviction in the shooting death of a Florida panther is now at $15,200. The panther was found April 21 in Hendry County on private property bordering the Big Cypress National Preserve, according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS). Henry County borders [...]

  Biologists from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission found a dead panther June 12 at the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge, a site west of Big Cypress National Preserve. “During their morning tracking flight, they received a mortality signal from a tracking device on the 7-year-old female panther,” the Naples News reports. “When they [...]