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A large sawfish that showed signs of distress was rescued by wildlife officials in the Florida Keys, where more than three dozen of the ancient and endangered fish have died for unexplained ...
Here is what the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission knows, according to a March 13 news release from Monroe County: There have been 21 documented smalltooth sawfish deaths to date.
Record hot seawater killed more than three-quarters of human-cultivated coral that scientists had placed in the Florida Keys in recent years in an effort to prop up a threatened species that’s ...
The Key West National Wildlife Refuge is a 189,497 acre (766.867 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located in Monroe County, Florida, between Key West, Florida and the Dry Tortugas. Only 2,019 acres (8.171 km 2) of land are above sea level, on several keys within the refuge.
The network of ecosystems created by the Everglades are surrounded by urban areas to the east in the South Florida metropolitan area, to the west by Naples and Fort Myers, and to the south by Florida Bay, a marine environment that receives fresh water from and is maintained by the Everglades. As it is surrounded on three sides and close to a ...
Curlew and Koala, two endangered North Atlantic right whales, wandered off course in January popping up along the Gulf coast near the Alabama and Florida border on Feb. 2.
The refuge is home to the endangered Key deer, a subspecies of the white-tailed deer that is endemic to the Florida Keys and has a current population of around 800 animals. 21 other threatened and endangered species of plants and animals are also found on the refuge.
An FWC vessel was in the area at the time and location of the incident. Kale Dailey, 53, of Englewood, Florida, died after being removed from the water during a snorkel trip in the Lower Keys Tuesday.