99% Invisible Podcast - COUGAR TOWN
LISTEN TO EPISODE 516 (11.29.2022)
Hear SUPERFISKY’S perspective on “urban nature” in Los Angeles, featured in the 99% Invisible podcast episode “Cougar Town”!
Wildlife and urban development don’t usually go well together. Roads in particular fracture the habitats of wide-ranging animals. It restricts their movements and makes it harder for them to find food or a mate. But biologists and urban planners have started working together –- crafting a plan to try to help pumas move more safely around the city. And in the process this one cat, dubbed P-22, has turned into something of a celebrity—the symbol of a movement to redesign our cities and make the built environment more friendly to animals.
P-22 became the inspiration and catalyst for doing something bigger — and begin to stitch the fragmented habitat of Los Angeles back together, and to get Angelenos to start thinking of their city as an ecosystem. (description of the episode from 99% Invisible)
