Western cougar populations are slowly expanding eastward. Reports of wild cougars in northern Ontario are believed to have come from western populations.
Western cougar populations are slowly expanding eastward. Reports of wild cougars in northern Ontario are believed to have come from western populations.
Brock Township, east of Lake Simcoe, issued an alert advising residents of a cougar living in northern Durham Region. Claims in the June 6 civic communication widely reported by local media cannot be confirmed.
Since that initial story, some 35 years ago, cougar sightings have continued to come in. Once I began my career as a journalist and broadcaster, tips, sightings, and other cougar-related information flowed in steadily. Some of them seemed legit, others, not so much.
UPDATE – DNA testing of the Thunder Bay-area cougar carcass, completed by the US Forest Service, has determined, with 95% certainty, that the cougar’s genetics were most closely related to individuals from the region of…
Most recent reports are from Waterloo region and Huntsville.
The first cougar known to be killed in Ontario since 1884 is almost certainly a released animal. The incident occurred on the evening of July 7, 2012 when OPP responded to a cougar attack in Utterson, Ont. a small town near Bracebridge in the Muskoka area. When officers arrived, they shot the cougar that had […]