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• A Port Orange island that is among the most important breeding ground for birds on Florida’s east coast is getting new protection.
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• Florida’s wildlife agency begins a three-day meeting Tuesday in Gainesville as its leadership undergoes big change.
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• The Humane Society is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to a conviction after a bear was found shot-to-death in Sanford.
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• It will be 2019 before Florida holds another bear hunt. That’s how the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted Wednesday.
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• A working group of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will meet Wednesday in Orlando to consider imposing registration fees for non-motorized boats.
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• Florida wildlife authorities will host a workshop Friday in Mount Dora looking at how to keep bears out of neighborhoods.
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• An iPod chirps from a shrub as the sun rises over the central Florida prairie, sending pink rays over the saw palmetto and wiregrass. In the distance hardwood hammocks obscure the horizon.
“When the light is like it is right now we call it the golden hour,” says Erin Ragheb of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. That’s why she works quickly.
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• Local governments and neighborhood associations statewide together are asking for nearly $2 million to help keep bears out of neighborhoods.
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• Florida wildlife authorities say the state’s bear population is growing at 4,030.
They say that is the final estimate after a count in 2014 and 2015. The Florida black bear was removed from the state’s threatened list in 2012.
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• With no predators and a never-ending appetite, the lionfish threatens Florida’s multi-billion-dollar seafood industry.
This non-native fish has spread in Florida coastal waters at an unprecedented rate and is multiplying up the Atlantic coast.
That’s why Floridians are cracking down on the lionfish and cooking it up.
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