Defenders of Wildlife - Florida

Obama administration charts new course for nation's forests

Fri, 23 Mar 2012

The U.S. Forest Service released today its final forest-planning rule, which will guide the management of 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands across the country.

Expansion of protections first step toward manatee recovery

Thu, 15 Mar 2012

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced the establishment of a manatee refuge in the waters of Florida’s Kings Bay that will expand protections for manatees at Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge.

Ecological Impacts and Practices of the Coral Reef Wildlife Trade

Tue, 14 Feb 2012

This report reviews and analyzes more than 600 scientific research papers to understand the ornamental wildlife trade’s impact on animals and the environment.

New wildlife refuge established in Florida

Wed, 18 Jan 2012

Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar today announced the creation of the Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area in an effort to preserve the community’s ranching heritage and conserve the headwaters and fish and wildlife of the Everglades

Defenders of Wildlife welcomes Interior Department's new vision for national wildlife refuges

Thu, 20 Oct 2011

Jamie Rappaport Clark, Defenders of Wildlife’s president and former director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, welcomed the Obama administration’s effort to frame a new conservation vision for the more than 150 million acres that make up America’s National Wildlife Refuge System.

Watch Out for Wildlife Week Proclamation: Florida

Thu, 15 Sep 2011

Workshop Participants Build Their Land Trust's Vision of Climate Change Adaptation

Wed, 31 Aug 2011

Living Lands facilitated workshops at the most recent Southeastern Regional, Virginia, and Maryland land trust conferences to help the land trust community and their partners define their own vision for helping their communities adapt in the face of climate change. The goal of this facilitated workshop was to demonstrate a quick and inexpensive process by which land trusts can begin to envision how climate change adaptation is part of their land conservation mission, understand the effects of climate change on conservation values, and develop adaptation strategies.

Conservation groups urge Congress to help move large-scale renewable energy projects forward

Wed, 1 Jun 2011

A coalition of environmental groups working on renewable energy development told a congressional committee today that the unprecedented expansion of wind, solar and geothermal generation over the past two years represented real progress toward a clean energy future and was the result of coordination between their groups, renewable energy companies and federal agencies.

Saving Florida's Panthers

Mon, 2 May 2011

With only an estimated 100 to 160 remaining in the wild, Florida panthers are one of the most endangered mammals in the world.

In gross oversight, President Obama fails to acknowledge the devastating losses of wildlife resulting from BP%26#8217;s Gulf oil disaster

Wed, 20 Apr 2011

In President Obama’s acknowledgment today of the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and resulting oil disaster, he failed to mention the enormous losses sustained by the Gulf ecosystem – not only to a fishing-dependent economy but to the thousands of animals killed or harmed by toxic oil and dispersants that persist in natural habitats even today.