Subject: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

• BEST PLACE TO BIRDWATCH

  May 13, 2004

• Swamped

  June 4, 2009

• Croc Problem To Be Solved With A Role of Tape and Some Magnets

  crocodile magnet via Great Russian GiftsThe Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has come up with a interesting plan to keep Crocodiles out of the waters behind residential communities. They'll be taping magnets to their head. By attaching magnets to each side of their heads some research suggests it affects crocodile's natural sense of navigation. Surprisingly, this isn't a very well thought out plan. "Hey, we might as well give this a try," is what spokesman Lindsey Hord had to sa

  February 27, 2009

• Letters from the Issue of March 5, 2009

  "Let him foolishly make money off of these animals, and we'll mop up the mess when something tragic finally happens."

  March 5, 2009

• When Animal Activists Attack

  February 26, 2009

• Hog Huntin' in the Glades

  December 25, 2008

• Ex-North Miami Mayor Elton Gissendanner Is Back

  A prison stay and bankruptcy can't keep him down.

  September 18, 2008

• The Iguana Huntress

  August 14, 2008

• Pastor Targets Corruption

  Simon Graves wants to dunk crooked pols.

  January 3, 2008

• Tigers, Cougars, and More in the Back Yard

  September 13, 2007

• A Fish-Stomping Spree

  August 23, 2007

• Piece Out

  December 22, 2005

• Miami Gun Rhapsody

  May 5, 2005

• Current Events

  July 29, 2004

• Valet Sharking

  April 22, 2004

• "KILL 'EM"

  October 23, 2003

• Something From The X-Files

  August 29, 2002

• Letters from the Issue of May 2, 2002

  May 2, 2002

• Hooked on Death

  April 11, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  August 23, 2001

• Swimming with the Sharks

  August 16, 2001

• Slaughter Alley

  June 14, 2001

• Snake It Up

  August 19, 1999

• As Economy Sinks, Boat Owners Abandon Ship Around Miami -- And We Pick Up the Tab

  The rusted prow of a 35-foot boat juts out of the water's edge in Maul Lake, a placid pool just a stone's throw from US-1 and 163rd Street. Its cabin windows are shattered, its hull is tangled with reeds and its roof is streaked with lime green spray paint.via Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation CommissionPerched on a coral rock across the water, Officer Jorge Pino shakes his head. "That was someone's dream," says Pino, a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer. "Someone pr

  April 17, 2009

• Ship Wrecked

  April 30, 2009

• Memo to Hog Hunters: Don't Hunt While Sick (Not That You Would)

  Words such as "Public Health Emergency" and "Global Pandemic" can awaken the dormant hypochondriac in the best of us. So when newspapers started using scary words to describe the swine flu yesterday, it occurred to Riptide that Florida has the second biggest wild hog population in the country. And then our throat started to tickle. But not to worry, says Gabriella Ferraro, spokesperson for Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. She has only one piece of advice for hog hunters in the

  April 27, 2009

• Feds Bust Yacht Pimped Out With Endangered Animal Hides, Tusks

  Listen up, foreign billionaires who enjoy pimping out your pleasure yachts with the finest in endangered African animal skins: You might want to keep that luxury boat away from Florida.You won't find Acosta's pad decorated like this, apparently.Surrounded by stuffed lions, mounted, roaring tiger heads and massive carved ivory tusks, U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta announced this morning a major bust of illegal, poached African creatures found on a yacht in the Port of the Everglades."Personally,

  May 13, 2009

• Killin’ ’Em for Condos

  July 31, 2008

• Bill Nelson Proposes a Giant Python-Killing Party in the Everglades

  In certain times and places in U.S. history, the answer to every political problem was probably "Let's get a bunch of guys with guns together and solve this." Nowadays, this idea seems to be seriously considered only in matters of Middle East diplomacy, but Florida Sen. Bill Nelson is suggesting a giant snake-hunting party in Everglades National Park. Nelson has hated this slithery alien creatures for a long time, but the last straw came three weeks ago when a pet python killed a toddler. Now

  July 15, 2009

• Seventeen-Foot Python Caught in Okeechobee

  via Florida Fish & Wildlife​ Here's the giant snake that's on the front page of every local news website, so why not ours too? Slow news day. As part of the insane/awesome new government initiative to kill every Burmese python in the wild, this 17-footer was caught yesterday in Okeechobee County. The beast weighed 207 pounds and measured 26 inches around (two inches more than Hulk Hogan's famed 24-inch pythons). It was later destroyed. The Florida Fi

  July 31, 2009

• Glades Invaders

  September 3, 2009

• Scientists Worried Everglades Pythons Could Morph into Hybrid Man-Eating Monsters

  Last week, I wrote about a coalition of scientists trying to stop the next dangerous exotic invader from taking over the Everglades. via Wikimedia CommonsAt this point, it's probably just best to run and scream.​Dennis Giardina, a botanist who co-chairs the group, took me on a hunt for nile monitor lizards, wily seven-foot-long monsters that he rates as the biggest emerging threat in Miami-Dade. When we ended up instead catching a tegu lizard -- a similar giant reptile from South America -- Gi

  September 15, 2009

• Hunters Push to Legalize Fishing Once-Endangered Goliath Grouper

  scuba diver via flicker cc​Shhhhhhhh. Listen to that. It's the sound of hundreds of feisty, cow-size fish making sweet, sweet love. Early October is the height of spawning season for goliath grouper, which means the rare floating horndogs are getting busy in Miami waters as we speak. In early fall, the once-endangered, hermaphroditic giants meet in packs of 50. Some grow as big as cars, and divers around the globe come to South Florida for the show. Which means guys like Randy Jordan are smili

  October 6, 2009

• Duck Soup? That Fowl on Your Plate Might Have Been Napped

  toshio via flickr cc​Mary, a straight-talking senior citizen, is the kind of woman who would jump in front of a car to save a family of ducklings. So you can imagine the sense of horror when -- lying in bed one night -- she heard the sound of a mother duck in pain. She snuck outside to investigate but found only an empty nest near her lakeside home in a five-block retirement community called Romont, near North Star Lake, where small white houses back up to canals. Feathers were strewn across t

  October 26, 2009

• Miami Gardens residents claim suspicious man swiped their ducks

  October 29, 2009