Recent News
December 20, 2010
Adult ivory-bills measured 19 to 21 inches, were bluish-black in color and had white markings on the neck, sides and back, resembling a white saddle.
December 17, 2010
Working with staff from county, state and federal agencies as well as volunteers, FWC biologists helped to coordinate the rescue of hundreds of sea turtles this week.
December 17, 2010
During the past 3 months alone, FWC law enforcement officers have been called out more than a dozen times to search for overdue hunters in the agency's 12-county Northeast Region
December 17, 2010
A Panama City Beach man has been found guilty on 13 charges in Bay County Court for illegally selling shark fins, shark meat and king mackerel.
December 16, 2010
Biologists with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Fish and Wildlife Research Institute rescued a young male manatee in St. Petersburg on Wednesday.
December 15, 2010
So far, there have been 76 boating fatalities, a 24-percent increase from this time last year.
December 15, 2010
Backyard Safari: When an opossum is scared, its body shuts down and the animal goes stiff, with its teeth bared, and saliva drips from its open mouth.
December 14, 2010
A pair of bald eagles that nested in a light stand at Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota is being encouraged to look for a safer place to re-nest.
December 13, 2010
Keeping garbage out of the paws of bears has been a little easier for some folks in Franklin and Wakulla counties in the Panhandle, thanks to Waste Pro.
December 13, 2010
The recreational harvest of snook will close in all Atlantic coastal and inland waters, including Lake Okeechobee and the Kissimmee River, beginning on Dec. 15.
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