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The state of Florida does allow for possession of species otherwise prohibited by law for the purposes of research. There is no fee for this permit. A research plan, security plan must be submitted to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) in order to attain approval.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is a Florida government agency founded in 1999 and headquartered in Tallahassee. It manages and regulates the state's fish and wildlife resources, and enforces related laws. Officers are managers, researchers, and support personnel, and perform law enforcement in the course of their ...
Some people oppose such laws claiming that animals such as pigeons can be an amenity for people who do not have company such as friends or family, and say that the laws prohibiting feeding animals in urban places must change. [36] In some countries, such as Greece, feeding the pigeons in cities is a widespread practice. [37]
A two-year experimental feeding program for starving Florida manatees will not immediately resume this winter as conditions have improved for the threatened marine mammals and the seagrass on ...
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission made the first step in lifting a three decade ban that the state has imposed on catching and killing goliath groupers, a species of fish that ...
Wildlife officials are trucking in 20,000 pounds of Florida-grown lettuce a week to feed starving manatees in the Indian River Lagoon, hoping to lessen the toll of an ongoing, historic die-off.
Five days later, on October 15, Schiavo's feeding tube was removed for the second time. On October 21, the Florida Legislature, in emergency session, passed "Terri's Law". [1] This gave Florida Governor Jeb Bush the authority to intervene in the case. Gov. Bush immediately ordered the feeding tube reinserted.
Feeding sharks is just as problematic as feeding alligators, bears, panthers and even manatees, but for different reasons. So it should be banned too. Florida shark feeding dives: Why it's time to ...