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Refuge visitors photograph a congregation wading birds at Merritt island National Wildlife Refuge

Recreation on the Space Coast

A rocket launches up to space in the golden dawn light from Cape Canaveral.

Space Industry & Partnerships

Conservation Success Story: A Tale of Two Mussels

A woodpecker perched on a tree with a bug in its mouth.

Endangered Species Act

Downlisting of Red-cockaded Woodpecker from Endangered to Threatened

A large male Suwannee alligator snapping turtle rests on a riverbank.

Wildlife Management

Suwannee Alligator Snapping Turtle

Florida manatee swims in shallow water toward camera.

Endangered Species Act

Servicio Federal de Pesca y Vida Silvestre de los Estados Unidos Propone Hábitat Crítico para el Manatí de Florida y el Manatí Antillano en Puerto Rico

Black creek crayfish in a green net

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Listing the Black Creek Crayfish as endangered under the Endangered Species Act    

Cedar Key mole skink

Endangered Species Act

Cedar Key mole skink

Wildlife Wonders

Endangered Species Athletics

a fisher climbing a tree

Endangered Species Act

Endangered Species Athletics 2024 Climbing

Crayfish in hand

Claws for Celebration

Endangered Species Act

Suwannee Alligator Snapping Turtle

Conservation Success Story: A Tale of Two Mussels

A woodpecker perched on a tree with a bug in its mouth.

Endangered Species Act

Downlisting of Red-cockaded Woodpecker from Endangered to Threatened

Florida manatee swims in shallow water toward camera.

Endangered Species Act

Servicio Federal de Pesca y Vida Silvestre de los Estados Unidos Propone Hábitat Crítico para el Manatí de Florida y el Manatí Antillano en Puerto Rico

Black creek crayfish in a green net

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Listing the Black Creek Crayfish as endangered under the Endangered Species Act    

Cedar Key mole skink

Endangered Species Act

Cedar Key mole skink

Endangered Species Act

Suwannee Alligator Snapping Turtle

Snail crawling up a vertical rock face

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Conducts Five-Year Status Reviews of 59 Southeastern Species

Florida bonneted bat laying on a tree branch.

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Designates Critical Habitat for the Endangered Florida Bonneted Bat

Image is a picture of Florida golden aster...

Endangered Species Act

The Delisting of the Florida Golden Aster

Panama City crayfish

Wildlife Management

Draft Recovery Plan Available for Panama City Crayfish

Group of manatees resting in the warm, clear, blue water of Three Sisters Springs

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Announces Findings on Two West Indian Manatee Petitions

Endangered Species Act

Short-tailed snake

Refuge visitors photograph a congregation wading birds at Merritt island National Wildlife Refuge

Recreation on the Space Coast

A rocket launches up to space in the golden dawn light from Cape Canaveral.

Space Industry & Partnerships

A large male Suwannee alligator snapping turtle rests on a riverbank.

Wildlife Management

Suwannee Alligator Snapping Turtle

Wildlife Wonders

Endangered Species Athletics

a fisher climbing a tree

Endangered Species Act

Endangered Species Athletics 2024 Climbing

Crayfish in hand

Claws for Celebration

Kevin Enge, left, FWC, and Travis Thomas, UF, right, pose while holding a large male Suwannee alligator snapping turtle with their boat and Suwannee River in the background. This is the 15th year the two men have been trapping and monitoring the Suwannee alligator snapping turtle to conserve and protect them.

Endangered Species Act

Suwannee Alligator Snapping Turtle

Flowering bush with yellow flowers in the Florida scrub

Endangered Species Act

Recovering the Florida Golden Aster

Prescribed burn on island

Land Management

Burning for Biodiversity

manatees in pool with people

Endangered Species Act

A Herculean Task of Shakespearian Proportions

Habitat Restoration

Apalachicola Comeback

Panama City crayfish

Habitat Restoration

Crayfish Chronicles