Confirmed Mountain Lion ReportsSince 1994, the Department has confirmed 29 of the hundreds of mountain lion reports in Missouri. View the map of confirmed reports.
White-Nose Syndrome in MissouriIn mid-April 2010, the Missouri Department of Conservation confirmed Missouri’s first signs of a new disease in bats that scientists have named “White-Nose Syndrome."
Reported mountain lion is actually a bobcatBiologists for the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) have determined that photos of a reported mountain lion taken in the Mosby area of Clay County area are actually of a bobcat.