Just weeks after a mountain lion wandered into San Francisco, state officials voted to permanently protect populations of the ...

The classification means greater habitat protection for California's mountain lions.

California wildlife regulators voted to list several mountain lion populations as 'threatened' under the state's Endangered ...

Wildlife regulators will decide whether mountain lion populations stretching from the Santa Cruz Mountains to Southern ...

Officials granted permanent protections to six populations of mountain lions in California under the state's Endangered ...

After mountain lions were granted temporary protection by the commission in April 2020, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife formally recommended the protections in December 2025. The ...

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

The decision to list these mountain lions as threatened follows a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity and the Mountain Lion Foundation. They highlighted the risks of inbreeding and ...

The state protections could lead to more wildlife crossings or stricter prohibitions on rat poisons, environmentalists said.

California is now mandating all state agencies to protect mountain lions in Southern California and the Central Coast. The California Fish and Game Commission Thursday voted unanimously to designate ...

California officials have voted to list several populations of mountain lions as threatened. Here's what to know.

The California Fish and Game Commission voted unanimously to permanently protect the six groups of mountain lions that live in the Santa Monica and the Santa Cruz mountains.