Florida panther habitat and facts

Get ready for Florida cat's doom

The Florida panther is in worse shape than ever. Although there are now 100 of them, thanks to a bold genetic experiment in 1995, cheap nfl jerseys the panthers are wholesale jerseys crowded into a smaller area than ever. Fish and Wildlife Service have never blocked any development that wipes out panther habitat, even manipulating numbers and using flawed science to justify saying yes to projects. Now there is no longer enough Florida panther habitat left for cheap jerseys the growing population of panthers, and cheap nfl jerseys genetic defects that had been vanquished are reappearing. In this series, based on two years of investigation, St. Petersburg Times environmental reporter Craig Pittman wholesale nfl jerseys examines what went wrong and whether the panther is now a dead cat walking. Pittman, 49, is a Florida native who has won numerous state and national awards for his coverage of environmental issues. For more about Florida panther facts, check our interactive timeline, watch video of a Florida panther capture and click on the links of this special report.