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California wildlife officials say the first mountain lion to be rehabilitated and returned to the wild in California has died. State Fish and Wildlife says the female cougar nicknamed Monrovia had been treated and released after being burned last year in a Southern California wildfire. The animal was found with burns to all four paw pads last September after the...

A mountain lion that attacked a 5-year-old boy in Calabasas was shot and killed by a wildlife officer, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed Saturday.

A juvenile mountain lion that spent two weeks at the San Diego Humane Society’s Ramona Wildlife Center was released back into the Santa Ana Mountains in Orange County by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, it was announced Friday

A juvenile mountain lion that spent two weeks at the San Diego Humane Society’s Ramona Wildlife Center was released back into the Santa Ana Mountains in Orange County by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, it was announced Friday.

The Solano County Sheriff’s Office is warning the public after they believe a mountain lion is behind the deadly attacks against a resident’s animals in Fairfield.

After four months of rehabilitation work, an orphaned mountain lion cub was transported to its original habitat near Tijeras Creek Golf Course in Orange County. A hatch door was opened and, after a quick glance around, the mountain lion leaped her way back home.

A mountain lion has been spotted in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco.

A young mountain lion who had a penchant for crossing the freeway and was found dead in Valencia was likely killed by massive injuries sustained from being hit by a vehicle, Santa Monica Mountains officials announced Wednesday.

The San Diego Humane Society’s Project Wildlife Team will release a rescued mountain lion cub to her new home Friday, a little more than a month after she was found on the brink of death.

An orphaned mountain lion cub who arrived at the San Diego Humane Society’s Project Wildlife Ramona campus is in better condition after weeks of intensive care by the medical staff.

An orphaned mountain lion cub who arrived at the San Diego Humane Society’s Project Wildlife Ramona campus is in better condition after weeks of intensive care by the medical staff. The cub was spotted by firefighters from the Vista Grande Fire Station near a road in Idyllwild on September 2. The cub was then transferred to the shelter. The cub…

An orphaned mountain lion cub rescued this week inside a Shasta County wildfire zone was being treated for burns by veterinarians at the Oakland Zoo.

Inbreeding has long been identified as a major threat to the survival of mountain lions living in the isolated habitat of the Santa Monica Mountains, and biologists said on Wednesday that they have spotted the first physical abnormalities to develop in lions as a result of the limited genetic diversity.

A mountain lion that had been roaming around a Monrovia neighborhood for days was tranquilized after it was found Thursday morning under a house. Monrovia police and California Department of Fish and Wildlife agents responded to the foothill neighborhood at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. The big cat was under the house Wednesday night before coming out and…

A young mountain lion that had been spotted sleeping in a planter box along a normally busy street and looking at his reflection in the glass of an office tower in downtown San Francisco was safely captured Thursday and will be released into the wild, officials said.

In a unanimous decision, the California Fish and Game Commission Thursday moved a step closer to protecting six struggling mountain lion populations — including those in the Santa Monica and Santa Ana mountains — under the state’s Endangered Species Act. The commission’s decision clears the way for a yearlong review on whether the six populations of mountain lions should be…

A mountain lion was captured early Thursday just hours after police warned residents about the big cat in a Simi Valley neighborhood. The sightings came about a week after a miniature Schnauzer was killed by a mountain lion in the community northwest of Los Angeles. The captured mountain lion is not the same animal in last week’s attack, authorities...

The mountain lion known as P-61, who successfully managed to cross the 405 Freeway in the Sepulveda Pass in July, was struck and killed today on that same section of the freeway, park officials said.

In an ongoing saga of the difficulty mountain lions face as they attempt to cross one of Southern California’s busiest freeways, wildlife officials shared an amazing update Thursday: a 4-year-old male mountain lion, named P-61, crossed the 405 Freeway around the Sepulveda Pass area, after many others had been killed trying to do the same in the past.