Conservationist to talk turtles with community

Conservationist to talk turtles with community

Did you know that Florida hosts 90 percent of all sea turtle nests in the U.S.? Or that three species (Loggerhead, Green, and occasionally Leatherback) come ashore right here in our backyard?

Now is the time to fight for Florida’s endangered wildlife

By Elise Bennett, Center for Biological Diversity  Perhaps the most discussed four-letter word in conservation right now is a surprisingly humble one: harm. President Donald Trump’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service want to do away with their longstanding definition of harm under the Endangered Species Act, which could blow open the door to unfettered and illegal destruction of the wild places where imperiled s…