Photo by carltonward / The Florida Legislature took a big leap forward for conservation today with unanimous passage of the Florida Wildlife Corridor Act. Thank you to insidenatgeo for supporting the Florida Wildlife Corridor vision over the past decade. Please stay tuned to PathofthePanther and CarltonWard in the coming weeks for more about what this means for people and wildlife. A Florida panther jumps over a flooded swamp trail in the Everglades. The Florida panther, a subspecies of the puma, is the last large cat population in the eastern United States. Hunted and pushed out of the rest the their historic range, the breeding population of panthers (the area where females are present) is isolated to the southern tip of Florida. While panthers are indeed back from the brink of extinction—from as few as 20 in the 1970s, when they were placed on the Endangered Species List—up to nearly to 200 today, panthers still have a long path to recovery. There needs to be three times as many,...