Chad Gillis

Recent samples from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, or FWC, show natural, background levels in Lee and Collier counties.

Projects like Kingston along Corkscrew Road and Belmar in eastern Collier are asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to allow tens of thousands of homes to be allowed in areas that were once considered off-limits to large development.

Twenty-one Florida panthers have been hit and killed by cars through Nov. 13, with 28 overall deaths documented by state biologists.

Twenty-one panthers have been killed by cars through Nov. 13, with 28 overall deaths documented by state biologists. Those numbers are closer to what biologist have recorded in the recent past.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials have said recently they plan to announce the specifics of a plan to help regrow the grasses, which are vital to the lake's world-class bass fishery. To do that they'll work to lower the depth of the big lake.

Researchers at the University of Central Florida studied the Florida panther and whether past genetic introductions have made the big cat more vulnerable.

A strong cold front hit Southwest Florida over the weekend, dropping daytime temperatures to by about 15 degrees.

Listed as threatened by the state, manatees will spend the next several months swimming to and from their warm water retreats as their tropical nature requires temperatures at or above 68 degrees.

Only 13 panther deaths were recorded in south Florida in 2023, and some panther advocates worried that the low number of documented deaths suggested that the population may be on the decline.

Manatees will spend the next several months swimming to and from warm water retreats in Florida as their nature requires temps at or above 68 degrees.