# @natgeo on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CMN3U9Qgwf0
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11685670-natgeo-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-03-09T23:35:50.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Geographic (@NatGeo) — https://gondola.cc/NatGeo

## Caption

Photo by carltonward / This photo is from my Florida panther story coming in the April issue of National Geographic magazine. A female Florida panther and her three kittens navigate Audubon’s Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in southwest Florida. Although bigger than 20 square miles, this sanctuary alone is far too small to support even one adult male panther, which needs up to 200 square miles to roam. But conserving adjacent agricultural lands can keep the sanctuary connected to larger conservation lands further inland. 

The Florida panther, with a breeding population that has been isolated to the southern tip of Florida, is the last subspecies of puma surviving in the eastern United States. The panther is now back from the brink of extinction, from fewer than 20 panthers to nearly 200 today. But it will not reach sustainable numbers without access to more of its historic territory throughout Florida and the southeast. Now there is a race to conserve enough land in the Florida Wildlife Corridor amidst rapid habitat loss from sprawling development, as more than a thousand people per day are moving to Florida. See more in the digital story by Douglas_Main, link in bio, and please follow me carltonward.

The PathofthePanther project Last Wild Places is a partnership with InsideNatgeo working to inspire the conservation of the Florida Wildlife Corridor—the statewide network of public preserves and private farms, ranches, and forests that the panther needs to survive. #FloridaWildlifeCorridor #KeepFLWild AudubonSociety

Check out Nat Geo's link in bio for more on this story.

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