Just weeks after a mountain lion wandered into San Francisco, state officials voted to permanently protect populations of the ...

California wildlife regulators voted to list several mountain lion populations as 'threatened' under the state's Endangered ...

State agencies are now mandated to protect the big cats, which have been increasingly vulnerable due to habitat loss ...

California granted permanent protections to mountain lions in a large swatch of the state on Thursday, adding the pumas to the state’s endangered species list.

Mountain lions in Southern California could soon be considered a threatened species, with officials saying that they face threats posed by freeways, rat poison and wildfires. The California Department ...

Lions lived in a wide area of the Japanese archipelago tens of thousands of years ago, as analysis of fossil specimens that ...

They're now listed as threatened, which offers special protections for the charismatic big cats and their habitats.