Finally, there may really really be panthers in Georgia

[Twenty five ought six]

WAYCROSS - A new federal report shows that the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in North Florida and Southeast Georgia could be the ideal place to relocate a population of endangered panthers.
The report is part of an update to a plan to increase the Florida panther population, which now lives in a few counties west of the Everglades. The report's recommendations include creating a panther corridor from South Florida into South Georgia.
There are about 100 panthers in Southwest Florida, up from the 30 in the 1990s.
Wildlife officials want to give the cats more room to roam.
The report recommends creating three separate groupings of 240 panthers to make sure they survive.
Originally published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Sunday, December 28, 2008

 

[tuffdawg]

And here we go............

 

[Big Jeep Wrangler]

Hey I also heard that they were going to introduce wolves back into the North Georgia Mountains.

 

[julian faedo]

Game and fish let around 8 to 10 cougars lose with tracking device around there neck, they let them go around Tallahassee area some came all the way south to levy county Florida. two or three went to Georgia this happened around 8 to 10 years ago, I think this will be a mistake, because when that cougar get to be to old to hunt good he may attack a child