There are likely fewer than 200 adult Florida panthers left in the wild, and their numbers are declining. To protect these endangered cats from a massive new development within their occupied breeding habitat in southwest Florida, conservation groups just notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Tarpon Blue Silver King I, LLC, of their intent to file suit in federal court. The notice says the federal agencies violated the Endangered Species Act when they authorized a 10,264-acre residential and commercial development project known as Rural Lands West in important “primary zone” habitat for panthers in Collier County, Florida. “Relentless development is chipping away at the last remaining panther habitat in southwest Florida and making it harder for them to roam and recover,” said Jason Totoiu, Florida policy director and a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The Fish and Wildlife Service never should have authorized this p...