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Florida’s iconic Key deer face an uncertain future as seas rise
The bulk of the deer live on Big Pine Key, a marshy island 30 miles from Key West. They roam neighborhoods where about 4,500 people live, browsing on lush gardens and drinking water from buckets ...
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Climate change is threatening Florida's Key deer
If you "move the Key deer to a series of zoos like people have done with pandas and other endangered species," you can "keep them going, but at what cost and to what end"? Bergh said to NPR.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Plans to Gut Protections for Whooping Crane, Florida Panther, Key Deer
WASHINGTON— Buried in the Biden administration’s unified regulatory agenda released last week is a plan by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to weaken or end protections for several iconic species, ...