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The eastern cougar or eastern puma (Puma concolor couguar) is a subspecies designation proposed in 1946 for cougar populations in eastern North America. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The subspecies as described in 1946 was declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2011. [ 4 ]
The eastern cougar (Puma concolor couguar) once roamed the eastern United States from Maine to South Carolina and west from Michigan to Tennessee. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has for years presumed the eastern couger was extinct, having no verifiable evidence, such as DNA, to the contrary.
However, on January 22, the Eastern cougar subspecies was officially declared extinct in the U.S. and removed from the endangered species list by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service....
Although classified as a member of the small cat family because of its skull and eye structure, the cougar is quite a large animal, the largest of all other species in its genus.
Another one officially bites the dust: the eastern cougar (Puma concolor couguar), a big cat resembling a mountain lion that lived throughout the northeast U.S. and Canada, has been declared...
The Eastern cougar is believed by the USFWS (1990) to be extinct throughout its historic range due to predation by humans, habitat loss, and low deer populations in the 1800s.
It’s official: The eastern cougar, that subspecies of the cat also known as puma, mountain lion, painter, and panther, is extinct, according to a new report by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declares the eastern cougar extinct and removes it from the list of endangered and threatened species. Wildlife conservationists say the cats should be reintroduced to the Adirondacks and other parts of the East.
The removal of the eastern cougar from the federal endangered species list, however, opens up an extremely controversial possibility. In theory, western cougars from California or Colorado could be introduced into places in the Eastern United States like the Adirondack or Great Smoky mountains.
Today, only a handful of Florida cougars still survive in southern Florida, and most biologists believe the native Eastern cougar (Felis concolor) has been extinct for many years. Sightings of cougars or their tracks are still reported occasionally in parts of the East, including North Carolina.