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Puma concolor

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List of Habitats:
1 Forest
1.1 Forest - Boreal
1.4 Forest - Temperate
1.5 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
1.9 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
2 Savanna
2.1 Savanna - Dry
2.2 Savanna - Moist
3 Shrubland
3.3 Shrubland - Boreal
3.4 Shrubland - Temperate
3.5 Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
3.6 Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist
3.7 Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude
3.8 Shrubland - Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation
4 Grassland
4.4 Grassland - Temperate
4.5 Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
4.6 Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded
4.7 Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude
8 Desert
8.2 Desert - Temperate
List of Conservation Actions:
1 Land/water protection
1.1 Site/area protection (in place)
1.2 Resource & habitat protection (in place)
2 Land/water management
2.1 Site/area management (in place)
2.3 Habitat & natural process restoration (in place)
3 Species management
3.1 Species management
3.1.1 Harvest management (in place)
3.2 Species recovery (in place)
3.3 Species re-introduction
3.3.1 Reintroduction (in place)
4 Education & awareness
4.3 Awareness & communications (in place)
5 Law & policy
5.1 Legislation
5.1.2 National level (in place)
5.1.3 Sub-national level (in place)
5.4 Compliance and enforcement
5.4.2 National level (in place)
5.4.3 Sub-national level (in place)
List of Threats:
1 Residential & commercial development
1.1 Housing & urban areas
1.2 Commercial & industrial areas
2 Agriculture & aquaculture
2.1 Annual & perennial non-timber crops
2.1.3 Agro-industry farming
2.2 Wood & pulp plantations
2.2.2 Agro-industry plantations
2.3 Livestock farming & ranching
2.3.3 Agro-industry grazing, ranching or farming
4 Transportation & service corridors
4.1 Roads & railroads
5 Biological resource use
5.1 Hunting & trapping terrestrial animals
5.1.1 Intentional use (species is the target)
5.1.2 Unintentional effects (species is not the target)
5.1.3 Persecution/control
5.3 Logging & wood harvesting
5.3.5 Motivation Unknown/Unrecorded
6 Human intrusions & disturbance
6.2 War, civil unrest & military exercises
7 Natural system modifications
7.1 Fire & fire suppression
7.1.3 Trend Unknown/Unrecorded
7.2 Dams & water management/use
7.2.11 Dams (size unknown)
8 Invasive & other problematic species & genes
8.2 Problematic native species
Citation: Caso, A., Lopez-Gonzalez, C., Payan, E., Eizirik, E., de Oliveira, T., Leite-Pitman, R., Kelly, M., Valderrama, C. & Lucherini, M. 2008. Puma concolor. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 June 2013.
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