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State and federal agencies have been regulating the destruction of wetlands and streams under the concept of “No Net Loss” since the first Bush administration announced it in 1989. This means that permits to fill or alter public waterways are supposed to go through the hierarchy of ...

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According to one of its own scientists, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) knowingly uses flawed science in assessing the habitat and population of the endangered Florida panther. “I could no longer tolerate the scientific charade where agency officials pretended that the ...

Image: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission The Florida panther’s survival depends on the protection of remaining undeveloped lands throughout its habitat—including lands under federal, state, and private jurisdiction. But a large portion of remaining panther ...

Image: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission With the continued paving over of its dwindling habitat, the panther is falling prey to motor vehicles in alarming numbers. The below tally is from the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, compiled from data collected by the Florida ...

The Florida panther is a subspecies of the North American cougar, which once had the broadest distribution of any terrestrial mammal in the Western hemisphere. The only known population of the cougar east of the Mississippi, Florida panthers are today confined to southwest Florida on a ...