WILDLIFE

A group of ex-employees has raised concerns that a Pompano Beach casino expansion project may displace threatened burrowing owls living on the property’s soon-to-be-developed race track.

A loggerhead turtle is rehabbing at Zoo Miami's new Sea Turtle Hospital after a shark bit off most of her left fin.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says it’s the 17th panther death recorded this year.

On Tuesday, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission was informed that wild birds in Brevard, Indian River and Volusia counties may have died as a result of the “bird flu.”

Veterinarians at the Turtle Hospital in Marathon are working to save a loggerhead turtle, they say was hit by a boat in the Florida Keys.

Florida is proposing to lift its three-decade ban on catching and killing goliath groupers after wildlife officials argued their numbers have rebounded.

State Parks and Wildlife officials said it was released earlier this month and they just shared this video.

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Florida’s beloved manatees, affectionately known as the “cows of the sea,” are always a sight to behold as they grace our Florida waters. However, since the beginning of 2021, the sea cow population is decreasing at an alarmingly fast rate. In the first five weeks of 2021, manatee deaths in Florida reached more than half of what they were in all of 2020. As of February 24, more than 350 manatee deaths have been recorded in Florida in 2021, which is three times the usual average for the same time period, according to The Weather Channel. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, at least 358 manatees have died in Florida since Jan. 1.

Jean-Michel Arrigona, 58, and his company Natur, Inc. in Midvale, Utah, sell wildlife in the forms of art, taxidermy mounts, bones, and skeletons. The indictment alleges that Arrigona imported wildlife into the United States without declaring it to U.S. The Lacey Act is the nation’s oldest wildlife trafficking statute and prohibits, among other things, selling wildlife that had been illegally brought into the country. The Endangered Species Act and federal regulations require importers to declare wildlife when it enters the country. The operation focused on the trafficking of wildlife from Indonesia to the United States.