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The Latest Breaking News from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

Florida conservationists need your help classifying 6 million acres worth of wildlife trail cam images

Some 1,000 participants have completed over 200,000 classifications since May – but the work is just getting started

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Florida traffic stop turns weird as police discover 13 live zip-tied iguanas hidden in truck

The iguanas were taken to a shelter afterward

The Independent UK

Officials finally track and kill 11-foot alligator that killed woman after flipping her canoe in Florida in May

The alligator was startled when the woman’s canoe passed over its back, according to officials

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Florida officials and FBI recover $1 million worth of stolen gold coins from 1715 shipwreck

Spanish treasure ships sank off Florida’s west coast during hurricanes more than 300 years ago, leaving their spoils on the ocean floor

The Independent UK

Shocking footage shows moments after a gator ate a 41-year-old woman in Florida

Family had last seen woman the day before fatal encounter in Largo, Florida

The Independent UK

Top 10 bass lake in Florida features a rare golden largemouth

While conducting electrofishing surveys at Lake Tarpon, fisheries biologists made the rare discovery of an xanthic largemouth bass.

USA Today Sports Media Group

'Old Gruesome' wandered beyond her normal Florida Keys home. The crocodile was moved back.

"Old Gruesome,” as residents of a Florida Keys neighborhood affectionately call an American crocodile who’s lived in their canal for years, decided to explore the area outside her normal environs earlier this month.

Miami Herald

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What to know about the 'red tide' hitting Florida beaches

The toxic Karenia brevis algae has returned to the Gulf Coast for another year, killing fish and causing health problems in people.

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Man opens front door after hearing strange noise - gets mauled by 9ft alligator

Scott Hollingsworth, from Florida, US, went to answer his door after he thought he had a visitor outside his home on Saturday evening but was attacked by an alligator

Daily Mirror

Four alligators removed from retirement home pond after woman, 85, dragged to death

The Spanish Lakes Fairways communities' lakes in Florida has removed all reptiles after Gloria Serge was mauled to death by a 10ft alligator as she walked her dog

Daily Mirror

Dog walker, 85, killed by 11ft alligator in Florida retirement village

The reptile first attacked the woman’s dog, before killing her

Evening Standard

Woman, 85, dragged to death by 11ft alligator as she walked her dog near pond

An elderly woman was walking her dog when an alligator tried to grab her pet near Spanish Lakes Fairways in Florida, US, when she was fatally killed by the reptile

Daily Mirror

Man beats shark with HAMMER on beach in horrifying video - and could face charges

WARNING, DISTRESSING FOOTAGE: The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is recommending charges against a 33-year-old man after he allegedly smashed a shark with a hammer on Bicentennial Beach Park

Daily Mirror

3 agencies looking for man who fell off a sailboat in the Florida Keys

MIAMI — Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are searching waters off the Florida Keys for a man who fell off a sailboat Saturday night.

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As more migrant boats keep arriving, Keys responders find themselves stretched thin

MIAMI — It was early December, and Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay had had it with the federal government’s response to what he considered a “humanitarian crisis” as more and more migrants arrived by boat in the Florida Keys.

Tribune News Service

800 Florida manatees died in 2022 as starvation lingers — but most survived red tide

For the second year in a row, more Florida manatees died than normal as the species battles a human-caused seagrass famine.

Orlando Sentinel

Manatee die-off season looms as trial of feeding them lettuce begins again

When the state’s wildlife department flung the first handful of lettuce to a starving manatee in the Indian River a year ago, it was an act of desperation driven by a catastrophic die-off and violating an environmental golden rule that animal behavior should not be messed with that way.

Orlando Sentinel

Manatees’ starvation may be easing in Florida, authorities say

ORLANDO, Fla. — Manatees caught in a starvation crisis in the Indian River east of Orlando may not be as stricken as a year ago, wildlife officials said Wednesday.

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1,500 pounds of dead fish cleared from St. Pete Beach over weekend as Red Tide looms

Dead baitfish dotted the shoreline like seashells and the air reeked of rot Saturday morning on Pass-a-Grille Beach.

Miami Herald

A python is stalking your South Florida neighborhood? So, what do you do now?

A massive snake — believed to be a Burmese python — was spotted slithering through Doral last week.

Miami Herald

Three manatees had major problems in the Florida Keys. They just returned after a change.

Three manatees who were being treated for medical issues and injuries in Orlando were released in the Florida Keys in late November.

Miami Herald

Man’s body found in Florida Keys where Haitian migrants came ashore this week, FWC says

The body of a man was found Thursday near where a group of Haitian migrants landed in the Florida Keys Monday, a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman said.

Miami Herald

17-year-old girl dies from injuries sustained in Florida Keys boat crash. 11 others hurt

MIAMI — A 17-year-old girl died Monday from injuries she suffered as a result of a tragic boating crash off the Upper Florida Keys the night before.

Miami Herald

A shark attacked a 10-year-old boy in the Keys. He lost part of a leg, his family says

A 10-year-old boy on vacation with his family in the Florida Keys was attacked by a shark on Saturday while snorkeling at Looe Key, state wildlife police confirmed Monday.

Daily Mirror

Alligator hunter hired to track down and kill reptile that savaged 13-year-old girl

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has put a hit out on an alligator after it bit a 13-year-old girl at a paddle boat ramp in Zolfo Springs, Hardee County

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