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[tires crunching against dirt]
[Man] That's good, Mark.
[Man] We'll do it over here...
[shoes crunching against dirt]
[metal scraping]
[metal scraping against wood]
[panther galloping]
Well, we were at the final stage of releasing the second
of two panthers that we rescued back in 2011.
Back in May 2011, this panther along with his sister
was born in...in Lee County, FL.
And then about 5 months later in September 2011
mom died of unknown causes.
But we were able to document that the kittens were
still there where mom had died.
So we set some live traps out and were successful
at catching this cat and his sister.
And we took those cats up to White Oak Conservation Center up in North Florida
who have had tremendous success at raising such kittens
for an eventual return back to the wild.
[V.O] In the early 80's, late 70's
we were down to about 30 panther.
Um...and today, a tremendous success story
where we're up to 100, to 160 panther.
So I have to compliment the..the panther team
that does expert work to rehabilitate and to bring panthers back into the wild.
[metal scraping]
[panther galloping]
[V.O] The release of the male panther went really well.
He kinda stuck his head out of the box, and felt his surroundings...
and then just made a dash for several hundred yards
down the road before peeling off into the willow.
All of our research at FWC and management of panthers by FWC
is supported almost completely by
the sale of those Florida panther license plates that you see out and about.
And we really appreciate the public's support of our research.