The Latest Breaking News from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.