This piece was originally published in The Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk collaboration. Beth Pratt has spent her career protecting Los Angeles’s mountain lions, which roam an area currently engulfed by wildfires. These apex predators, also known as cougars or pumas, share a scrubby landscape with lavish private homes and a dense network of roads. When major fires take out huge areas of open space, their options are limited. “This is the L.A. area—these mountain lions can’t move into the Kardashians’ backyard,” says Pratt, California…
