Publication: KCRW 

UCLA Expert: Seth Riley: Adjunct Associate Professor, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability 

Synopsis: KCRW features Seth Riley — and colleague Audra Huffmeyer, UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology — in a discussion of their research and how habitat corridors could help local mountain lion evade extinction. 

UCLA News: Riley compares Los Angeles’s mountain lions to the those throughout the rest of the region. “Genetic diversity among L.A.’s mountain lions is ‘much lower than anywhere else across California, or anywhere else across the West where people have studied mountain lion genetics.  There’s room essentially for 10 to 15 adults … that’s too small in the long run.’” 

Read more at KCRW.