endangered species

A new study shows that a breeding program that paired endangered Florida panthers with Texas pumas likely has helped save the official state animal from…

Florida wildlife authorities say four species no longer will be listed as imperiled.The species are the harlequin darter, Homosassa shrew, southern fox…

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is making its way through its list of 57 of the state’s imperiled species, issuing voluntary...

White Oak Conservation in Yulee last week released three endangered Mississippi Sandhill Cranes back into the wild, bringing the world population of the...

One crisp, sunny afternoon this month, grad student Sarah Steele Cabrera headed down a sandy path at Long Key State Park carrying two nylon bug...

Once upon a time, the Red Wolf roamed the south and eastern United States, from Texas to Pennsylvania. Today, there are fewer than 40 wolves left in the...

The last couple of years have not been kind to the endangered Key deer. A grisly, flesh-eating screwworm infected the planet’s only herd in the Lower...

A central Florida bird that scientists say is North America’s most endangered is near extinction.The Florida grasshopper sparrow’s population in the wild…

Edie J. Banner is an organic chemistry instructor at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee . While most of the school’s teaching laboratories...

A small lizard that lives only in the coastal areas of the Florida Keys is facing "a foreseeable and imminent death sentence" and deserves protection...