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The Florida Wildlife Commission said Monday they have recovered the remains of another Florida panther, this time a 2-year-old male, in Collier County. The new death comes a little more than two weeks after two previous Florida panther deaths were reported – a nine-month-old panther found injured in Collier County in September and the remains of a four-month-old panther found Oct. 15 in Hendry County.

Two more Florida panther deaths have been reported – a nine-month-old panther found injured in Collier County in September and the remains of a four-month-old panther found today in Hendry County.

Nearly three-months without a panther fatality came to an end Monday with a report of the death of an adult male in Collier County.

Since the start of May there have been six Florida panthers killed, likely by vehicle strike, Florida Wildlife Commission statistics show.

The Florida Wildlife Commission said Friday that the second panther death in a week in Collier County has been reported. The death is the 10th panther to be killed in the state this year.

The ninth Florida panther death this year and the fifth female of the species was reported killed in Collier County in the past week. The remains of the big cat, a 3-year-old female, were collected June 19, on County Road 846 in Collier County, east of Immokalee. The suspected cause of death was vehicle collision.

The Florida Fish & Game Commission Panther Pulse informational web site said the two animals were discovered on Saturday.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission is reporting the death of another Florida panther.

Collier County has approved an exchange of land that could eventually lead to thousands of new homes in what now is a rural part of the region. But the deal also could lead to preserving a corridor for wildlife, including panthers.

Conservation groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wednesday to protect endangered Florida panthers from a new development within the panthers’ occupied breeding habitat in Collier County. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Fort Myers, said the federal agencies violated the Endangered Species Act when they authorized a 10,264-acre residential and commercial development project known as Rural Lands West in important habitat for panthers in Collier County.