Radio-collaring and daily tracking stress and kill Florida panthers

Evidence

Once they keep those collars on, they follow them around and chase them every day. Checking on them, and where they’re at. That’s another factor in their daily survival, stress. And just look at it. If someone put a big old collar on you, you aren’t able to look down or twist your head the way you want to. The panthers go through thick woods and stuff, what happens if a big old branch gets caught and they’ll get caught and struggle and get exhausted. And then they’re going to die. They’ve been finding panthers dead with collars on. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 233

Categorization

• XREF: Collaring = surveillance; the panthers’ collars echo the ‘string’ the reservation puts on a person (para 214) — Indigenous reading of conservation monitoring as the same colonial control technology.