One Cougar’s Legacy in the Heart of Hollywood | WILD HOPE
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- Los Angeles is well known for its celebrities, so when the fearless cougar P-22 gained fame for making its home in the midst of the city, he inspired an effort to build the world’s largest wildlife crossing and helped spark a national campaign to support crossings and corridors everywhere.
When he came of age, P-22, like other young male mountain lions, set off to find territory and potential mates. Against all odds, he successfully traversed multiple freeways to find a new home in Griffith Park. However, this small scrap of land, like the Santa Monica Mountains he came from, remained isolated from larger mountain ranges to the east.
After years of research and outreach by local biologists and advocates like Beth Pratt, this team of conservationists pinpointed the vital location for a wildlife crossing to be built to restitch an entire ecosystem. Now a decade later, P-22’s story continues to inspire the very construction of this landmark crossing and expands what’s possible for urban wildlife coexistence.
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May P-22 continue to rest in peace. Please make cougars the mascots for the 2028 Olympics!!
I used to get upset about the coyotes in my neighborhood, but now we have adjusted our life to them. Our dog never goes outside alone, but I enjoy all of the wildlife around me, even the skunks.
I miss living in a neighborhood with coyotes and mountain lions. A healthy bird population chirping away. No stray cats fighting at 1am or spraying cars/buildings. Always a treat to the coyotes and big cats too.
I had no idea about P-22 until i started looking into wildlife crossings but i'm so glad that to have learned about his life and the impact he had. What a legend he is!
I remember the day P-22 died and cried my eyes out! He was well known for many years! I’m just so glad to know his legacy will continue with a wildlife crossing across the 101 freeway and beyond! 😻❤️
P-22, we miss you 😢
What a great ambassador for cougars and other wildlife. I'm so glad to see that this wildlife crossing bridge will be done in 2025. It will save lives! Thank you P-22, we miss you and your beautiful being
I miss P-22 What a gorgeous mountain lion. When I moved here I was like "that is such a cool thing to have in this big city!" and even the rich people whose chihuahuas get eaten fought for him to stay. It was a really sad December right before Christmas when they had to put him down but at least they brought him to one of the best zoos on earth in San Diego before that had to happen.
Hollywood misses you P22 🦁 - RIP💫
Yep *I live right off the next freeway exit in Calabasas* The crossing looks to be mostly complete. Can’t wait until it’s finally built 🤙🏼
As of Aug 16 2024, it still needs to traverse over Agoura Road, which has not even begun yet. Still a ways to go.
@@chrisg8995 There aren’t any updated photos online showing that the architectural foundation now crosses from one side of the freeway to the other. Idk about u, but I drive under it everyday on my way to work. Ppl already know it won’t be completed this year. I was just commenting cuz I’m excited it’s near my house.
Same here, live off the Parkway Calabasas exit and drive under it every day on my way to work in Agoura Hills. When I moved here in Jan 23 I wondered what it was for several months, when I eventually googled it I was very pleasantly surprised.
@@TightyWhitieTrashSite says 2025-26 now.
This is one of the stories that gives me hope for this world. And, despite California’s many problems, it shows why we love California.
Stories like this gets me every time. Anyway, it makes my intentions stronger in my everyday life in making the world safer for nature and, in consequence, for us all.
We have one here in WA state over I-90. I've also driven under the Banff Wildlife Crossing. I love seeing them. Good luck to her. I hope they become commonplace in every state.
He was so beautiful.
Cougars are my favorite big cats. They dont roar, but they purr! They are just gorgeous! Theyre building one of these near Burlington,Vt.
Me too, I love cougars especially the sluty ones 😂😂😂
Why?! There are no cougars anymore on Eastern part of the US!?
@@anthonyherring6636 there are still plenty of other large animals like moose, deer, and bear though
@@anthonyherring6636there is if you include Florida
@@anthonyherring6636 newsflash they're called wildlife crossings not mountain lion crossings 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
We miss you P-22. You were a local hero! I am so happy the crossing is finally getting done.
I used to watch Nature with my Great Grandma. Miss her so much!
In South Florida we have panther crossing over highway and under highway but we also have bears and deers😊
We have bears, deer too in the LA city proper. Up in the central California, there’s also elk and apparently a couple of wolf packs in the high Sierra mountains (came in from Oregon).
@@MrDellaschopefully they will bring their way down to our mountain range. We also have feral pigs in so cal and parrots
If only the richest men in America could hand over a measly 500 million. They wouldn't even feel it. But what an impact. I wish a portion of my taxes would go to something so vital. And by vital I mean for us humans, too.
We owe it animals across the country to provide connections over or under major highways. ❤
@@Dyejob01 I agree!
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Throughout history the richest men have been ruthless in achieving and maintaining their wealth..Most only give as a tax credit. It is what it is. Wouldn't be surprised if one day Zoos will only be AI generated..
@@johnlooney2319 well that wouldn’t bother me. I don’t care for zoos or the circus or any animal captivity that generates a profit for people.
This is truly a remarkable story of strength and resilience of this beautiful creature that God has created!! The American cougar is a true icon of bravery!!! ❣️🤔👍🏾💯
If only we do that, every were, in these great country, will save, countess wild life….
Thx for these amazing video….!!
What a great story. One life can have a great impact on our country. I hope more of these bridges and underpasses can be built all over the country where they are needed in order to benefit the communities and wildlife.
RIP P-22. He was a good kitty.
Love you, Beth Pratt. You’re doing the Lord’s work.
We all miss P-22 so much. Thank you for always advocating for him and other Pumas
Screening this fascinating film in class! Love P-22 and thanks to Beth Pratt and the topnotch production team at Wild Hope!
This reminds me of Broken Tail! A tiger in India who did something similar and became an ambassadour. For anyone who hasn´t already heard of his story and legacy, check it out! There was this absolutely amazing documentary done like perhaps 15 years ago, one of theose documentaries I will never forget. Nat geo wild had it in there series, called Broken Tail - A tiger´s last journey.
Cool!
Nature is glorious! So many people and so many developers are so greedy and entitled when it comes to leaving natural habitats alone. We don't need to build more neighborhoods, we need to rebuild the ones we have to accomodate more people. Bridging for animals over and under freeways, and giving animals a way to move around more freely is critical. All of us interested in this video get it. I just hope everyone sees videos like this one and understands the challenge, and we make things better for the environment, not worse like humanity has done for so long.
I grew up in the area and remember one in Griffith park in the 60’s I believe it was caught and relocated. My Moms friend lived in the boonies between Malibu and calabassis. She was a vet and was always having the most amazing visits by every critter in the area including a female mountain lion who had a curved leg but still kept keeping on. I loved my mom’s friends house and her wild critter friends💕
Wonderful people doing selfless things to make the world a better place. These people along with many others are real heroes and should be appreciated and compensated better than athletes and celebrities.
Couldn’t agree more. These are the people who deserve the limelight.
Thank you to all involved, including those who will construct these!
Every time i drive by that wildlife crossing under construction i feel so happy ❤ glad we're finally doing something
Bike the hills around there all the time. People look at me strangely when I tell them I regularly see Deer, Coyote, Rabbit, Quail, Tarantulas and Snakes. Lots of wildlife, which makes riding there really fun.
You go with that wildlife crossing, LA.👍 I'm hoping to see a few here in Michigan and other states as well.
Wow!!! Totally awesome!! My heart goes out to P-22 and all the amazing people who made this and other wildlife crossings possible ❤ Please spread the word to AUSTRALIA!! Koalas 🐨 and other precious and unique wildlife there are on the way to extinction! Secure connectivity if the fragmented habitat would be so important there too!!!
FYI - most European freeways have green overpasses for wildlife.
Every city, every town on both sides of the freeway must, I repeat - MUST - have a green wildlife overpass!!!!
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Calling all animal lovers! Cody Roberts of Daniel, Wyoming has yet to be punished for his horrific abuse towards a wolf cub known as Thea. We must not allow him, nor any other torturer of animals get away with only a slap on the wrist. If any of you care, please fight that real justice be met! Keep this story alive, ask for better animal protection laws, continue to protest until he is given server jail time for his awful crimes. Don’t let Thea die in vain! Demand that her murderer is brought to justice. That’s what it means to be a Wildlife Warrior!
#JusticeForWolves
And let’s not forget to maintain and create habitat corridors for wildlife large and small too in our communities and backyards!!
Earlier this year I think,went to the Natural History Museum, they honored him there. Still makes me cry, like losing every dog I ever had.😢
we have so many of these land bridges all over china for while now and there are 100s of more being build and I love seeing other nations using these to help the animals from dying by being hit by trucks and cars. ❤❤❤
Now let's get one over the 405 in the mountains as well
makes me want to donate now thanks for the awareness
Its pathetic that it takes us so long to be persuaded to build something as basic as a bridge, that helps everything & everyone. We just don't have this time to waste.
2:20 and 4:58. Love how they show the animals posing for the camera. Makes me appreciate knowing they are out living life even though I don't see most of these diverse animals regularly.
Los Angeles will never have a cougar shortage 😉
....but seriously, R.I.P. P-22
He was so handsome.
A remarkable and magnificent cat.
I was shocked to see the cost of this crossing- $100 million! I know half was raised by private donations as well as public funds but I can't understand why it cost so much. Would it have been cheaper if it was incorporated in the original road build?
If so , all new freeways should have wildlife crossings as a mandatory feature, to keep costs down.
I hope the LA28 Olympics make their mascot a Mountain Lion... because the only "King" to ever reign over Los Angeles was P-22. We will never forget our fallen king
Absolutely gorgeous beautiful animals leave the animals there
We’ve had one along hwy 69 near Sudbury, Ontario for a long time.
What a beautiful story
NW ohio and SE Michigan need these bad!!!!!!!
Some years ago I was very vocal - identifying a bridge over highways to enable wildlife to safely cross the roads.
Nice puppy. Griffith Park is full of coyotes the visitors leave food behind for them to eat.
So cool.
I came across the concept of Underpass and overpass when I read Ben Goldfarb's book Crossing: How road ecology is shaping the future of our planet ,I was introduced to Miss Pratt, what wonderful she is doing. In India this concept is not understood at lot, I am doubtful if it ever will be introduced.
Amazing story. I hope to be able to help soon.
the population and distribution of meso predators such as coyotes and foxes expanded as apex predators became increasingly rare and fragmented
I had a CA Lupus Lynx Bobcat come to visit the city's lower west side of Los Angeles.- one night i heard one on the roof in back - dark - short way up the ladder and head to head within 4 ft. - had the classic points on the ears, and because i do my share of communications with local wildlife - neither of us was afraid.- The animals' eyes and look on their face let me know they value the rare moments of friendship with humans... mostly a fear issue... they are having a comeback, saw one in Malibu 20 years back from 30 or 40 ft. - were considered extinct back then... and really hard on the deer up there - more car hits than people shooting them.
I recall learning about P-22 and the wildlife corridor that was planned to create a pathway for not just the cougars, but for many species of animals, as well. With this video telling me that completion is expected in 2025, I can’t believe that we’re now half of 2024 and this will be unveiled to public in the not too distant future. It also reminds me a panther here named Babs because she happens to end in a place called Babcock County that made history as the first panther been sighted in the upper part of Florida for more than 70 years. As a result, it prevented the creation of another toll road and led the foundation to make a crossing there as the panthers keep on spreading northwards, as they should. I look to see the end result for the crossing and the future of this cat flourishing everywhere in the country.
When it comes to animals the resources are limitless! But the homeless problem can't be solved because of limited resources! The two problems is not opposite to each other...but help a animal and you are a hero. Help a homeless too much of a problem 😔
Need a more of these
What a sad story about the loss of P22. Then again the success story of wildlife crossings across our nation is reassuring that all those “P22” animals will survive.
one cougars Legacy in the heart of Hollywood
❤️😻❤️long live the 👑 king ❤️
The next step should be working with legislators to put in place laws that all new roads must include wildlife corridors.
Prince Zuko found a new job as a narrator.
I remember seeing a mountain lion on the hollywood trail about 10 years ago, we made eye contact for a second, and after a few minutes passes i heard the mountain lion "roar" (I'm not sure what its called)
Think of all the human lives it will save in accidents as well❤
Why are we humans the only important ones, why not the animals? Why? because they are not talking? some of them not as large as we are? Viva the animals, all creatures and nature in general! Viva!
i just want to remind you. there are lions living near by millions of people and nobody has noticed them, nobody has been eaten. they aren't that scary.
Wild life & roads , roads r a sign of development , its a death knell for wild life , human subservient attitude , there r always ways to both , we just need to look into it , came across a very interesting information , the city of mumbai 20 million population has 65 leopards co-existing with humans .
Is there a blog or website or something for the wildlife crossings projects?
Awww, poor P-22
Cool and touching. Note: Because it ends with the words "we solved the problem", I must note that we did not. We helped some. :(
P22 is a freakin' legend. He was fearless and smart. #NightKing
i just saw one in the woods of Pittsburgh. 🍻
Animals have their own roads. We know where they cross, it’s where they always cross. Their roads were here before ours. We must make more safe crossings.
What an incredible video 😮 If you’re as fascinated by the animal kingdom as I am, dive into more at Wild Waves! Let’s keep exploring together.
Rip p-22
I love you
1:53 as soon as she said part of the problem with that thinking wow
❤️❤️❤️ thank you
Very Sad, P-22 now your brothern and other forest mammals are able to escape mans mechanical highway machines. Please continue this project tomorrow and beyond😊😊😊😊😊
Of course they built a road to Cougar Town in Hollywood
The crossing is quite a few miles from Hollywood...a little over 20.
I've seen deer in Griffith Park.
I'm going to be honest, I saw "Hollywood" and "Cougar" and was expecting a different type of cougar 😆
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The one good thing California-Dem-Hollywood did for wildlife
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Will he get his own star on the walk of fame?
Is there a way to contact Jeff Sikich about one of the species featured in this video?
The 101 crossing is wonderful, but it seems that it would be more economical and productive to create hundreds of smaller paths that go under the highways and freeways of LA (and other places).
We humans are the top of the food chain, but that means that we have the responsibility to ensure that all the animals and creatures beneath us have an opportunity to flourish as well…
Scientists have talked about the under option and know that animals are afraid. Canada designs over as well.
Animals like to continue on a path with nature around them and quiet. Sound engineers are involved in the bridge design and the plants are being grown nearby at a nursery for planting when the time is right.
i use to usher at the greek in the 50-60's
i thought this was gonna be about cougars! lol
What's the width of the bridge crossing? Wouldn't the wild animals be prone to ambush predators? It's gonna be a hassle-free meal for them
Our grandkids kids won't see nature as we do today
Wouldn’t it be great if someone like Peter Thiel financed a crossing or two?
That scumbag would monetize it. 🤣
Growing up in South Los Angeles as a kid, every few years a cougar would drag some person off their bicycle or chase joggers in Irvine park. They absolutely live on the outskirts of LA.
sweden have done this for a loooooong time but we make underpass
The bridge will just become a bottle neck where predators can camp out nearby and spot any deer trying to cross.
This proves how smart cougars are, as they find a way to survive and find a way out of the urban environment and make it to a home where there are no humans. Who knows that a cougar is famous in Los Angeles. Also, that photograph with P-22 at the Hollywood sign, really fantastic !
As a result, even though mountain lions can be dangerous and fierce animals, this would get the public to change their mind about cougars.