Rescued Fawn
updated: Apr 26, 2012, 11:08 AM

By Julia Di Sieno

PLEASE help, we are filling up fast with fawns, and many other needy displaced and orphaned wildlife. We need donations of funds, powdered or pasteurized goats milk, wildlife transporters, as well as experienced volunteers. For more info.

PLEASE read below. We are also happy to report that that rescued fawn is thriving well with other fawns in our care,

Thank you,

Julia Di Sieno

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Early in the morning commute on April 24, 2012 a male mountain lion was struck and killed by a car on Highway 101 near the town of Buellton, California. Vehicle mortality is one of the more common forms of death for lions in Southern California. What makes this particular death unique is the fact that a passing motorist stopped, sawed off the animal's paws, and genitals for possible sale on the black market, then tossed the carcass into a nearby gully in an effort to hide the evidence.

Buellton is located on US Highway 101 in the Santa Ynez Valley of Santa Barbara County, California. The dismembered lion was discovered by Julia Di Sieno, the Executive Director of Animal Rescue Team, a wildlife care facility located in Solvang, California, and a California Department of Fish & Game Warden, Lt. Jim Solis.

Proposition 117, passed by the Mountain Lion Foundation and California Voters in 1990, designated the mountain lion (also known as cougar, puma, and panther) as a specially protected species, and also made it illegal for the public to own or trade in cougar body parts. Paws are often taken to make jewelry from the claws. However, body parts are also sold for supposed medicinal purposes.

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