Endangered Species Act

Two Plead Guilty To Selling Jaguar Skins in South Florida

​Elias Garcia Garcia and Maria Angela Plancarte, both 53-year-old residents of La Feria, Texas, have plead guilty to selling jaguar skins throughout South Florida. Jaguars are of course protected by the Endangered Species Act, and the sale of their pelts is explicitly outlawed.

Protest: "The Cruelest Show on Earth" at American Airlines Arena

via ARF​If you see grown men dressed in elephant costumes on Biscayne Boulevard today, it's not conceptual art. Nor are they practicing for Burning Man or coming from a really good rave. Activists from the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida (ARFF) plan to dress as ringmasters, clowns, and tiger ... More >>

Congrats, South Florida! You've Driven Two New Species Toward The Endangered List

Here in South Florida, we've done a number to Mother Nature that few other regions in this fine country can match. via NASAThe area outlined in yellow is considered, in scientific lingo, "totally F'd up."​In just over a century, we've dammed the Everglades, plopped whole cities down in the mi ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of November 3, 2005

Letters from the Issue of November 11-17, 2004

Public-radio lovefest, parks and mounted police, humans as panther bait

Wild and Crazy

Guess what happens when an eccentric ecologist and a couple of feisty backwoods boys claim that a rare Florida panther is on the attack

Roe Rage

Fish eggs, fish eggs roly-poly fish eggs; fish eggs, fish eggs, eat them up, yum

God's Eye on the Sparrow

Should 2700 little birds be allowed to hold up the reclaiming of the Everglades?

Hooked on Death

When clueless tourist meets shameless skipper, it's a good bet there'll be blood on the docks

Slaughter Alley

Big dead cats in the middle of the road -- lots of them

Really for the Birds

A weird government plan to help save an endangered species winds up threatening to defile the Everglades

Big Chief Moneybags

Part CEO, part shaman, Seminole leader James Billie has his tribe charging toward economic independence.

It Isn't Easy Being Green

Homestead Air Force Base is a crucial natural habitat for a rare plant. But don't worry, they'll develop around it.

Bad to the Bone

It's sad when a manatee dies because of a careless boater. What took place on Watson Island went beyond sad.

The Adventures of Eco Man