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The 26,400-acre (107 km 2) refuge was established in 1989 under the Endangered Species Act by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, [1] to protect the endangered Florida panther, as well as other threatened plant and animal species. The Florida panther is the only cougar population found east of the Mississippi River. [2]
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.
Eventually, I narrowed it down to a few places — the Florida Panther National Refuge, Audubon Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Picayune Strand State Forest and Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park ...
Refuge Name Location Date Established Area Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge: Brevard County Indian River County: 1991: 900 acres (3.6 km 2) [71] Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge: Palm Beach County: 1951: 147,392 acres (596.47 km 2) [72] Caloosahatchee National Wildlife Refuge: Lee County: 1921: 40 acres (0.16 km 2) [73]
A Florida panther was caught snoozing near a home in Bonita Springs earlier this week. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
This map shows the United States Geological Survey's compartmentalized map of Water Conservation Areas 1, 2 and 3. The Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge is a 145,188-acre (587.55 km 2) wildlife sanctuary [1] is located west of Boynton Beach, in Palm Beach County, Florida. [2] It is also known as Water Conservation Area 1 ...
Forty monkeys have escaped from Alpha Genesis, a research facility, in Yemassee, South Carolina.
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is a National Audubon Society sanctuary located in southwest Florida, north of Naples, Florida and east of Bonita Springs, in the United States.The sanctuary was established to protect one of the largest remaining stands of bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) and pond cypress (T. ascendens) in North America from extensive logging that was ongoing throughout the 1940s ...