A national nonprofit organization protecting mountain lions and their habitat The mission of the Mountain Lion Foundation is to ensure that America’s lion survives and flourishes in the wild. The Mountain Lion Foundation envisions a world where lions and people coexist, where sustainability includes the persistence of the human ecosystem in harmony with viable wildlife communities, and where wildlands are nurtured and not subdued. America’s lion is a marvel of adaptation, descending from Asian felids of 11 million years ago. For millennia, Puma concolor inhabited forests, deserts, mountains, islands and bottomlands of the New World’s two massive continents. Our vision is that the ecological miscues of the Anthropocene Age abate, allowing restoration of lions throughout these diverse habitats.