A park ranger recently captured video footage of a rare Florida panther sighting on a Manatee County, Fla. nature preserve, Manatee County officials announced on social media Tuesday.

According to the post, the Manatee County ranger spotted the male panther on the Duette Preserve, a 22,000-acre preserve in the eastern part of the county. The post notes male panthers are known to travel territories as large as 200,000 acres.

The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) estimates that there are 120 to 230 adult Florida panthers in the wild.

According to the National Wildlife Foundation, the range of the Florida panther once extended from Florida to Louisiana and into Arkansas, but today they are only found in southwestern Florida. It is the only subspecies of mountain lion which remains in the eastern U.S.

The panthers were hunted nearly to extinction and were one of the first species added to the federal endangered species list in 1973, with only about 20-30 remaining in the wild at that time.

The Florida panther’s status remains endangered, with continued loss of habitat due to construction and panthers killed by vehicles as they attempt to cross roads and highways between areas of habitat.

Already in 2024, a 1-year-old male Florida panther was struck and killed by a vehicle on a rural road in Hendry County, Fla., according to the Associated Press.

A total of 13 Florida panthers were killed in 2023, all struck by vehicles.