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Florida Panther Dies On Card Sound Road in Everglades
02.04.06 (9:26 am)   [edit]

A panther struck and killed by a car west of the Card Sound Bridge, between South Florida and the Florida Keys, is fueling activists' opposition to a proposed development.

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The odds of seeing a Florida panther, one of the rarest creatures in the world, are long. Odds of a panther being struck by a car in Southeast Florida are longer still -- it last happened nearly 20 years ago. Odds of the circumstances surrounding a female cat that was killed Thursday night along Card Sound Road make winning the 23 million-to-one lottery jackpot sound downright likely. That's because the people who witnessed the panther hit-and-run are environmentalists who two days earlier filed a federal lawsuit aimed at derailing a 6,000-home development proposed just up the road. One of their arguments is the remaining open lands south of Florida City and Homestead provide critical habitat for panthers, an animal protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The activists acknowledged the coincidence sounds improbable, but called it fate that they crossed paths with an unfortunate panther in a place they are battling to preserve.

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