Monroe County Solid Waste, Waste Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, Save Our Key Deer, Florida Keys Wildlife Society and Coast Love hosted educational booths and a lidded trashcan giveaway at
Tucked into the Biden administration’s second regulatory Unified Agenda, which provides a list of actions to work on over the next year, is the fate of the diminutive Key deer
A former state prison substation in Big Pine Key that closed in 2017 has been acquired by The College of the Florida Keys, which is taking input from nearby residents
A federal court has ruled that the Sierra Club is entitled to a Species Status Assessment report regarding the endangered Florida Key deer, which the federal government has been considering downlisting its Endangered Species Act status.
The downlisting would reduce protections for the iconic deer, which are only found in the Lower Florida Keys.
The non-profit conservation group hopes the release of this report will help âshed light on the Fish and Wildlife Serviceâs inexplicable rush during the (President Donald) Trump administration to strip the species of Endangered Species Act protections despite severe population losses from Hurricane Irma and screwworm disease, and the devastating impacts of sea level rise, which will extirpate the species absent drastic action,â Sierra Club stated in a press release this week.