State: Leave Nesting And Hatching Sea Turtles In The Dark
Sea turtle nesting season on Florida beaches begins March 1st. State wildlife officials are reminding beachgoers to turn off the flash when taking photos of nesting or hatching turtles. Sea turtles ,...
View ArticleKey Deer Are Conservation 'Success Story,' But Still Face Threats
Key deer were almost hunted to extinction. By 1950, as few as 25-50 of the animals were left. But the creation of the National Key Deer Refuge on Big Pine Key and protection under the Endangered...
View ArticleHatchling Pythons Discovered In The Keys
Burmese pythons have established themselves in the Everglades — and now they appear to be breeding in the Florida Keys, according to state and federal wildlife agencies.
View ArticleU.S. Puts Bumblebee On The Endangered Species List For 1st Time
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated the rusty patched bumblebee an endangered species — the first such designation for a bumblebee and for a bee species in the continental U.S. The...
View ArticleAdvocate Praises New Wildlife Designations
The president of the Florida Wildlife Federation is praising a decision by state regulators to upgrade protections for a broad range of iconic species.
View ArticleScrewworm Response For Key Deer Winding Down
Self-medicating stations meant to protect the endangered Key deer from screwworm have already been removed and federal wildlife managers plan to stop medicating entirely on April 10 — assuming no new...
View ArticleKey Deer Poacher To Serve Federal Time
One of two men caught illegally poaching three endangered Key deer was sentenced Tuesday to 12 months in federal custody. The other received supervised release for a year. U.S. District Court Judge...
View ArticleEnvironmental Group Wants To Sue U.S. Government To Get Protection For Rare...
A small lizard that lives only in the coastal areas of the Florida Keys is facing "a foreseeable and imminent death sentence" and deserves protection under the Endangered Species Act, according to an...
View ArticleFederal Wildlife Managers Clear Way For Walmart In Vanishing South Florida...
Federal wildlife managers on Tuesday cleared the way for a Walmart-anchored strip mall in one of the world’s rarest forests , a tract of vanishing pine rockland inhabited by butterflies, bats, snakes...
View ArticleFeds Quietly Reconsider Protected Status For Endangered Key Deer
The last couple of years have not been kind to the endangered Key deer. A grisly, flesh-eating screwworm infected the planet’s only herd in the Lower Keys in 2016, killing nearly an eighth of the...
View ArticleSudan, World's Last Male Northern White Rhino, Dies
Sudan, the world's last male northern white rhinoceros , died in Kenya on Monday, leaving his species one step closer to extinction, even as a group of scientists undertake an unprecedented effort to...
View ArticleWant To Help Save Endangered Butterflies? Pass That Beer!
Working to protect a rare, endangered butterfly usually involves work in the field or the lab, or sometimes meetings and conference calls. Now helping out the Bartram’s scrub-hairstreak butterfly can...
View ArticleFederal Wildlife Officials Are Asking Floridians For Help Locating...
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials are asking Floridians to help with a five-year review of 35 endangered or threatened fish, wildlife, and plants. These species are found in the southeastern...
View ArticleNo Nest Zone: Low-Tech Method Keeps Threatened Birds Away From Navy Runways
A low-tech method is saving a threatened species of bird from getting sucked into jet engines at the Naval Air Station Key West airfield on Boca Chica Key.
View ArticleCritic Of Federal Public Lands Management To Join Department Of The Interior
A Wyoming property rights attorney who's long criticized what she calls federal overreach over public land management will take a position as one of the U.S. Department of Interior's top litigators....
View ArticleThe Miami Blue Was Fluttering Toward Extinction. Then The Scientists Showed Up
One crisp, sunny afternoon this month, grad student Sarah Steele Cabrera headed down a sandy path at Long Key State Park carrying two nylon bug containers. Cabrera had scouted out the park, a former...
View ArticleScientist Are Helping Miami Blue Butterflies Make Yet Another Comeback
The Miami Blue is the Rasputin of butterflies. But biologists are hoping for a happier ending for the Miami Blue than the early 20th Century Russian mystic who survived one assassination attempt after...
View ArticleFlamingo One Step Closer To Being Considered A Floridian Bird
The state wildlife agency is taking the next step toward establishing — or re-establishing — the American Flamingo as a Floridian bird. Flamingos had been considered a non-native exotic species for...
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