Trump administration to finalize protections for 11 South Florida plants and animals
The Fish and Wildlife Service settled litigation over the species, but the wood stork will lose its endangered listing.
Tag: Alligator Alcatraz
Questions surround Florida’s attempt to expand its role in Everglades restoration
The Everglades face increasing pressure as global temperatures warm, storms intensify and tides rise.
The Miccosukee Tribe blocked Alligator Alcatraz. Then Trump blocked a bill to return their land
The White House vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have expanded Miccosukee land and environmental stewardship.
Where darkness turns primordial
As light pollution increases, communities in Florida such as Groveland are working to keep skies dark.
Federal appeals court pauses litigation over Alligator Alcatraz
The Trump administration had argued its attorneys were furloughed during the government shutdown.
The rule of law is under attack in the Everglades. We’re fighting back
The National Environmental Policy Act was ignored when the Everglades detention camp was built.
Alligator Alcatraz marks looming environmental crisis
Paving over wildlands and bringing in staff and prisoners has an environmental impact in an already sensitive landscape.
In Immokalee, community groups plant with extreme heat and farmworker neighbors in mind
Cultivate Abundance is part of a network of organizations working to address food disparities here.
Alligator Alcatraz ordered to close, but the fight isn’t over
A judge sided with the Miccosukee Tribe and said the ICE detention center must close. Florida officials have already appealed.
To Florida’s Miccosukee Tribe, the lands around Alligator Alcatraz are sacred, pythons and all
The tribe joined a lawsuit initiated by environmental groups aimed at stopping the detention site.