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. Hendry County borders western [...]

  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 [...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released the Interagency Florida Panther Response Team Annual Report: 2007-2008. The report summarizes human-panther interactions investigated between July 2007 and June 2008 by biologists, law enforcement officers and representatives from the FWS, National Park Service and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. As more people move into panther [...]