{"id":170206,"date":"2026-02-09T10:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170206\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T10:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:21:08","slug":"why-mountain-lions-in-california-are-threatened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170206\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Mountain Lions in California Are Threatened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Why Mountain Lions in California Are Threatened<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THUMBNAIL-jumbo.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>Six subpopulations of mountain lions in California face mounting threats, including habitat fragmentation from highways, urban sprawl, and wildfires, as well as widespread rodenticide poisoning. Loren Elliott, a photojournalist for The New York Times, shows how he documents these elusive animals.<\/p>\n<p>By Loren Elliott, Gabriel Blanco and Rebecca Suner<\/p>\n<p>February 9, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: Why Mountain Lions in California Are Threatened Six subpopulations of mountain lions in California face&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2113,7,9,8,75155,5878,2398,535],"class_list":{"0":"post-170206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-cougar","13":"tag-endangered-species","14":"tag-photography","15":"tag-wildfires"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}