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Honoring P-22We need all the wild we can hold.


                                News of the world environment

                                 NEWSLETTER | DECEMBER 16, 2022

















                                An Ode to Hollywood's P-22
                                Earlier this week, wildlife officials here 
in Southern California captured an aging celebrity, a 12-year-old mountain 
lion whom we’ve named P-22. The big cat is a much-revered figure in the land 
of the famous, having survived a delicate cohabitation with humans amid the 
coastal woodlands of the Hollywood Hills. He was captured because he has 
turned to predation on Chihuahuas, a sign that he is getting too old and too 
tired to hunt deer.

                                This morning, I read that P-22 will not 
return to the wild. He is underweight, and his coat is thinning, and he has 
an injury to his right eye, “likely,” the Los Angeles Times reported, “the 
result of recent vehicular trauma.” He has been treated with antibiotics and 
will undergo a CT scan, and, depending on health assessments, will either be 
euthanized and held in captivity. Either way, his run as a wild thing is at 
an end.

                                As an environmental journalist, I know that 
we should not make too much a symbol of what are called charismatic 
megafauna. But it is hard not to see P-22’s ignoble capture and impending 
death or imprisonment as symbolic of a greater diminishment. As we humans 
hurl through the twenty-first century, devouring wild spaces, wiping out 
birds and bees, parching rivers, and bleaching reefs, news of a specific 
loss, like that of P-22, hits hard.

                                The key, I think, is knowing what to do with 
this kind of gut-punch. We must understand these moments as calls to action, 
to do better. We must think harder about our relationships to our wild kin, 
and do what work we can, wherever we can, to keep them. This is how we honor 
P-22. We should remember him roaming the dark hills of Griffith Park, beyond 
the city lights, forever free in our collective imagination, which needs all 
the wild it can hold.



                                Brian Calvert
                                Associate Editor, Earth Island Journal

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                                Photo of Griffith Park, Los Angeles: Boqiang 
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