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Habitat conservation is a management practice that seeks to conserve, protect and restore habitats and prevent species extinction, fragmentation or reduction in range. [1] It is a priority of many groups that cannot be easily characterized in terms of any one ideology .
The environment of Florida in the United States yields an array of land and marine life in a mild subtropical climate. This environment has drawn millions of people to settle in the once rural state over the last hundred years. Florida's population increases by about 1,000 residents each day. [1] Land development and water use have transformed ...
The Florida Wildlife Corridor is a statewide network of nearly 18 million acres of connected ecosystems containing state parks, national forests, and wildlife management areas that support wildlife and human occupation. [1] The corridor seeks to connect wildlife habitats, reducing their fragmentation and the subsequent declines in plant and ...
Thankfully, we have a gill net ban in Florida, which will be bolstered by Amendment 2. Passing Amendment 2 will safeguard our right to fish and hunt while promoting responsible stewardship of our ...
Wildlife conservation refers to the practice of protecting wild species and their habitats in order to maintain healthy wildlife species or populations and to restore, protect or enhance natural ecosystems. Major threats to wildlife include habitat destruction, degradation, fragmentation, overexploitation, poaching, pollution, climate change ...
Giant pandas are considered an umbrella species. Umbrella species are species selected for making conservation -related decisions, typically because protecting these species indirectly protects the many other species that make up the ecological community of its habitat (the umbrella effect). Species conservation can be subjective because it is ...
Florida scrub is a community of xeromorphic species living on poor, well-drained soil, including some combination of sand pines, evergreen scrub oaks, Florida rosemary, rusty lyonia, and gallberry. [ 5 ] Depending on conditions, scrubs may be dominated by saw palmetto, rusty lyonia, and gallberry; by Florida rosemary; by sand pines; or by some ...
The Florida mangroves ecoregion, of the mangrove forest biome, comprise an ecosystem along the coasts of the Florida peninsula, and the Florida Keys. Four major species of mangrove populate the region: red mangrove, black mangrove, white mangrove, and the buttonwood. The mangroves live in the coastal zones in the more tropical southern parts of ...