Cougar | Puma Conservation Organizations

The goal of cougar conservation is to ensure healthy populations of cougars by addressing issues like habitat loss, human-wildlife conflict, and declining prey availability. Conservation strategies often involve scientific research to monitor cougar populations, track their movements, and understand their ecological needs. This data informs policies to preserve critical habitats and maintain connections between fragmented landscapes, allowing cougars to roam and maintain genetic diversity.

List of Cougar Conservation Organizations

Bay Area Puma Project

Large scale research, education and conservation program for pumas in and around the San Francisco Bay Area.

UNITED STATES (NORTH AMERICA)

Conservation Northwest

Conservation Northwest protects wildlife, forests and wild areas from the Washington Coast through the Cascades Mountains to the British Columbia Rockies with a focus on larger predators, including the lynx and cougar.

Cougar Fund

Protect the cougar throughout the Americas through education, funding, promoting the use of sound science and monitoring state policies.

Cougar Rewilding Foundation

Facilitating the recovery of the cougar in suitable wild habitat east of the Rocky Mountains.

Craighead Beringia South

Contributes new knowledge toward improving the management and conservation of our natural environment; wildlife focus areas include the cougar.

Endangered Animal Rescue Society

Florida-based organization that provides a permanent home for unwanted or abused animals, including cougars, lions and leopards.

Fundacion Con Garra

Chilean non-profit implementing strategies to mitigate the threats faced by the seven wildcat species native to our country (Leopardus colocola, L. garleppi, L. geoffroyi, L. güiña, L. jacobita, L. pajeros, and Puma concolor).

Fundacion Rewilding Chile

Rewilding Chile, formerly known as Tompkins Conservation Chile, is a nonprofit foundation that carries on the legacy of Douglas and Kristine Tompkins.

Mountain Lion Foundation

California-based organization protecting mountain lions and their habitat.

OSA Conservation

Committed to the preservation of the Osa Peninsula's biodiversity and wild cat conservation.

Panthera

Panthera focuses its conservation efforts on imperiled cats, including tigers, lions, jaguars, snow leopards, pumas and cheetahs.

Panthera – Canada

Wild cat conservation in Canada

CANADA (NORTH AMERICA)

Rocky Mountain Cat Conservancy

Dedicated to promoting wild cat conservation through research and community stewardship with a focus on the mountain lion.

Save the Cougar

SaveTheCougar.org is a privately funded effort to increase public awareness of sightings of large felines in Michigan.

T&D's Cats of the World

T&D's is dedicated to providing a permanent safe haven for unwanted, abused and mistreated exoctic and wild animals. T&D's will accept as many of these animals as space allows.

"...T&D's will not sell, give or trade exotic animals...(and) does not condone breeding exotic or wild animals for the pet trade, private ownership or other exploitation...(we) strive to provide the best care (including diet, housing, behavioral and mental stimulation and veterinarian) for the animals."