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Florida is now known as the invasive species capital of the United States or the World. [44] [45] Six Red deer were released on Buck Island Breeding Ranch in Highlands County in 1967 or 1968. The herd increased to less than 30 animals. In 1993, 10 animals were seen in the area, and small numbers have been sighted subsequently in the same area. [46]
Charles River Laboratories, the world's biggest producer of lab animals, maintained a free-range colony until 1999, when they were forced to remove the animals after they destroyed parts of the mangrove forests in Key Haven. [169] Other primates with reported sightings not included in this list are crab-eating macaques and squirrel monkeys. [170]
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Florida has teams in all five American major league sports. Florida's most recent major-league team, Inter Miami, began play in MLS in 2020. [304] The Miami Masters is an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 and WTA Premier tennis event, whereas the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships is an ATP World Tour 250 event.
The Florida Wildlife Corridor Act is the result of over 40 years of conservation work, much of which was driven by Professor Larry Harris and Reed Noss. Starting in the 1980s, they realized that Florida’s rapid development was causing serious habitat loss and fracturing, and the only way to address it was through large-scale conservation efforts.
Maps are useful in presenting key facts within a geographical context and enabling a descriptive overview of a complex concept to be accessed easily and quickly. WikiProject Maps encourages the creation of free maps and their upload on Wikimedia Commons. On the project's pages can be found advice, tools, links to resources, and map conventions.
The Miami-Dade Zoological Park and Gardens, also known as Zoo Miami, is a zoological park and garden in Miami and is the largest zoo in Florida.Originally established in 1948 at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, Zoo Miami relocated in 1980 as Miami MetroZoo to the former location of the Naval Air Station Richmond, [4] southwest of Miami in southern unincorporated Miami-Dade County, [5] surrounded ...