The Canadian population was rougly estimated at 3,500-5,000 and the western US population at 10,000 in the early 1990s (Nowell and Jackson, 1996).
The population of Central and South America is likely much higher, although it is unclear how abundant pumas are in the dense rainforest of the Amazon basin (Nowell and Jackson, 1996).
The Florida subpopulation, numbering 70-80, is isolated, and has been supplemented by a reintroduction of pumas from Texas (Sunquist and Sunquist 2002).
In Brazil it is considered Near Threatened but subspecies outside the Amazon basic are considered VU (Machado et al. 2005).
It is also considered Near Threatened in Peru (Inrena 2006), Argentina (Diaz and Ojeda 2000) and Colombia (Rodriguez-Mahecha et al., 2006),
and Data Deficient (inadequately known) in Chile (CONAMA 2005).
Density estimates include:
Utah, US: 0.3-0.5/100 km² (Hemker et al. 1984)
Idaho, US: 0.77-1.04/100 km² (Laundre and Clark 2003)
Peru: 2.4/100 km² (Janson and Emmons 1990)
Patagonia: 6/100 km² (Franklin et al. 1999)
Pantanal 4.4/100 km² (Crawshaw and Quigley unpubl. in Nowell and Jackson 1996)
Belize 2-5/100 km², in Argentina 0.5-0.8/100 km², Bolivia 5-8/100 km² (Kelly et al. in press)
W Mexico 3-5/100 km² (Nunez et al. 1998)
Source: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Caso, A. , Lopez-Gonzalez, C. , Payan, E. , Eizirik, E. , de Oliveira, T. , Leite-Pitman, R. , Kelly, M. , Valderrama, C. & Lucherini, M. , 2008
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Puma concolor (Linnaeus, 1771) according to GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
(accessed through GBIF data portal, http://staging.gbif.org:8080/portal-web-dynamic/portal-web-dynamic/species/2435099, 2012-08-10)
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