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The Conference The Ontario Puma Foundation will host the 3rd Midwestern - Eastern Puma Conference. Wildlife professionals, scientists, writers, and other people that have a keen interest in the recovery of an endangered species to midwestern and eastern North America will come together for three days at Trent University.
It is anticipated that over 150 participants and delegates will attend this Conference, featuring an international audience with approximately 22 technical presentations on a variety of subjects, a banquet dinner with a keynote speaker, a poster session on various scientific studies, a choice of various wildlife workshops, and a tour to Jungle Cat World.
The Puma (Puma concolor), also known as the cougar, mountain lion, and eastern panther, once ranged across North & South America from the southern tip of the Yukon Territory in Canada to the southern tip of Patagonia in Argentina. The range west to east was from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean in all varieties of habitat. After the European settlement in North America , the Puma was persecuted resulting in the disappearance of the species from much of its range. In eastern Canada and the United States, the puma (P.c. couguar NA) was hunted to extinction - "or was it?"
| Ap-par-ent: | Ap-pa-ri-tion: |
| Adj. 1. plain to see ; so plain that one cannot help seeing it; easily understood. 2. According to appearances; seeming: The apparent truth was really a lie. Syn . 1. Evident, clear, perceptible. See obvious. |
Noun 1. A ghost; phantom. 2. Something strange, remarkable, or unexpected that comes into view. 3. The act of appearing; appearance. Syn. 1. see ghost. |
| Definitions from the Gage Canadian Dictionary, Gage Educational Publishing Ltd., 1973 |
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In the Spring of 2002, a group of people interested in the research and rehabilitation of the Puma in Ontario discussed the possibility of forming an organization. Collaborating their information from several years of sightings, the objectives and strategies were evolved and the Ontario Puma Foundation (OPF) was born. Based on the most current scientific research, the Ontario Puma Foundation's status of the North American Puma ( Puma concolor couguar NA ) in Ontario is endangered . The OPF is the leading organization in the research and recovery of Pumas in Ontario .
The Ontario Puma Foundation is a volunteer non-profit, charitable organization. It is the intention of the Ontario Puma Foundation to cooperate with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Environment Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service and the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada . The OPF also have a working relationship with Universities, Colleges, Consultants, Provincial Police, Naturalist Clubs and other Non-Government Organizations.
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