By MARY WOZNIAK
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World-famous photographer and environmental activist Clyde Butcher is rallying residents to attend a Collier County commission meeting at 9 a.m. Wednesday to protest a proposed off-road vehicle park in the Big Cypress National Preserve.

The park is proposed by Miami-Dade County on 1,600(...)

By Jeff Klinkenberg, Times Staff Writer

Volunteers monitor the shorebirds nesting on warehouse rooftops, rescuing wayward chicks.

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Least terns floated like dandelions above Beth Forys. Maybe they were flying willy-nilly for the fun of it. Maybe something had them on edge, which made more sense to the Eck(...)

Dawn dishwashing detergent is used to clean up just about anything covered with oil
— from birds to sea turtles to human skin. But what makes Dawn so effective?

At a warehouse turned bird bathhouse in Venice, La., dozens of bottles of Dawn stand like soldiers behind a row of deep sinks. It takes three people as much as an hour to get the gooey oil off each pelican. They start by rubbing t(...)

Rare Bat In Picayune State Forest

Biologists with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) recently concluded the first-ever bat monitoring program in Picayune Strand State Forest in Collier County. During the course of their research, biologists came across a rare find: the state-endangered bonneted bat residing in the forest, which is co-managed by the Division of Fore(...)

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Oil continues to spew into the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico four weeks after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig. It is now being seen from Louisiana to Mississippi, and there are fears that the loop current will carry it up the Atlantic Coast. Read more

Audubon staff are seeing increasing numbers of oiled birds, and fears of long (...)

Lee Fox of Save Our Seabirds Prepares for Deployment to Save Oiled Wildlife
Published Friday, April 30, 2010 6:00 pm
by Erica Newport

BRADENTON -- Save Our Seabirds founder, Lee Fox, and some local team members are gathering up rescue and rehab supplies in preparation for 24-hour notice to deploy to oil spill for oiled wildlife rescue. The organization appealed to people today to help in(...)