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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has nearly halved the acreage involved in its plan to establish a large conservation area in Southwest Florida
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New state guidelines to protect endangered beach-nesting birds will not take effect until this time next year. Originally those guidelines. applauded by bird advocates. were slated to start last month, but The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission delayed its effective date.
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Federal money could be used to match or augment existing state dollars used to protect environmentally sensitive land, including that of the Florida Wildlife Corridor.
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Peaches the flamingo was found in deep water off Florida’s Gulf Coast. Now a pair of researchers is tracking the bright-pink bird to see if wild, breeding populations may return to Florida for the first time since they went locally extinct in the early 1900s.
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Floridians own rights to decide if 5,000 acres of farmland in southwest Florida will ever be developed as part of Rural and Family Lands Protection Program.
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The wildlife corridor would preserve land stretching from the Everglades to Georgia and Alabama, allowing wildlife to freely migrate.
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Wildlife officials are using a new method to help control the explosive population growth of the invasive snake by tracking down their prey.
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A 77-year-old Florida Keys woman has been charged in federal court with shooting one of the endangered Key deer unique to the Keys.
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Field research on the consequences of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill found that heart, vision and hearing damage caused to mahi mahi populations by even low amounts of oil can cut the chances of survival within a week to just half.
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The Galápagos land iguana is back on Santiago Island. That's thanks to some help from a team of conservationists.
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Scientists face a challenge: A troubled species rebounds thanks to restoration efforts, only to make things worse for others by preying on them or outcompeting them for food and living space.
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Global warming is causing many species to migrate northward, but roads often can prevent them from doing that. Scientists are looking for ways to make that passage easier and safer.