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The Florida panther is the only cougar population found east of the Mississippi River. [2] The refuge is part of a network of private land and government protected areas. Some of the public sections of the system are the Everglades National Park, Big Cypress National Preserve and Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve. In all, less than 100 panthers ...
On 19 August 2024 the Florida Department of Environmental Protection announced plans [21] to build golf courses and 350-room lodges on state park lands. [22]In statements to the Tampa Bay Times and in posts to social media, the agency claimed that the construction of a golf course on vulnerable scrub habitat will be done in a way to "minimize habitat impacts".
Among the wildlife of the park are a number of threatened and endangered species: the Florida panther, wood stork, black bear, fox squirrel, and Everglades mink. The park also is home to white-tailed deer, raccoons, opossums, red-shouldered hawks, wild turkeys, owls, and vultures.
Counties included in the South Section of the Great Florida Birding Trail. This is a list of parks and nature reserves that are locations in the South section of the Great Florida Birding Trail. Locations include sites in Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hendry, Lee, Martin, Monroe, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Sarasota counties. [1]
The less seaweed there is floating in the Gulf of Mexico today, the less seaweed South Florida swimmers and sunbathers will have to deal with later this summer.
The brown seaweed that washes up on Florida beaches is known as Sargassum. Once it washes ashore, the seaweed starts to rot and releases hydrogen sulfide gas, which smells like nasty, rotten eggs.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service owns and manages Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge and entered into a cooperative agreement with Florida Park Service to cooperatively manage the entire island in 1989 and is known as Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge and State Park.
According to Florida’s health department, the cases of Vibrio infections in the state have more than doubled from 2021 to 2022. However, this is reportedly an after-effect of Hurricane Ian ...