The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission may only be 12 years old, but it thinks and acts like a well-established state environmental agency. “Our mission is to protect wildlife for our generation and generations to come, for the well-being…

Hope for fragile coral reefs around South Florida and the rest of the world is eroding as fast as the reefs themselves. Coral reefs face threats from coastal development, overfishing, inland pollution, global climate change and more recently, the lionfish….

FLORIDA CITY, Fla.— The Everglades region of South Florida have a lot to offer, depending on what it is that you are looking to do. One thing you could probably never imagine to do is go alligator hunting. Well, if…

FLORIDA CITY, Fla. — They sit perched on a lily pad, near the shrubbery or in the saw grass prairie, as if they are posing for a picture. Birds of the Everglades National Park (ENP) along the Anhinga Trail in…

FLORIDA CITY, Fla. — They sit perched on a lily pad, near the shrubbery or in the saw grass prairie, as if they are posing for a picture. Birds of the Everglades National Park (ENP) along the Anhinga Trail in…

The Black Skimmer water bird wheels and dives along the southern coasts of the United States with the grace and precision of a combat fighter plane. It fishes for a living, powering low here over the waters off Marco Island…

It may look like a flying umbrella or a colorful Avatar as it soars; it may look strange when it swings its spoon-like bill to create mini-whirlpools as it hunts by touch for small fish, snails and insects in muddy…

Up, up and away, scores of birds, mighty and scrawny, flap their wings, going airborne, twisting and turning, over the vast, swampy Everglades, descending to branches to rest or shallow lagoons to hunt for food. Since ancient times, birds, such as tri-color herons, great blue herons, great egrets, reddish egrets, snowy egrets, ibises, ospreys, black-necked stilts and brown pelicans, shown in this slide show, have been the subject of dreams and inspirations of man. The Wright Brothers studied soaring birds from 1897 to 1899 at a picnic area south of Dayton, Ohio…

Under brilliant early-morning sun, colorful shore birds, often solitary, tiptoe on steady, twig-like legs through mere inches of sparkling water along the Southwest coast of Florida. This photo slide show documents a wide variety of hungry birds from Fort Myers…

From a population count of less than 50 individuals in the 1950s to between 500 and 700 individuals currently, the Key deer, with the help of the local and national government through the National Key Deer Refuge located on Big…