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🇺🇸 United StatesConservationists Create a Coastal Corridor to Protect Florida's Marine Life
From disappearing manatees to bleached coral reefs, gender-changing turtles and oyster beds destroyed by hurricanes, no other state's marine life faces the magnitude of climate-related challenges than Florida's. Now, wildlife authorities are attempting to bring some cohesion to tackling the diverse slate of issues by borrowing from a playbook that has already proved successful on land.
Conservationists have created a 'coastal corridor' of ocean-based projects designed to preserve and nourish vulnerable marine life. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), and its charitable arm, the Fish and Wildlife Foundation of Florida (FWFF), have announced the creation of an ambitious 'coastal corridor', an interconnected chain of ocean-based projects and enhancements designed to preserve and nourish vulnerable marine creatures. It replicates to a significant degree the state's wildlife corridor, an 18m-acre (7m-hectare) project established in 2021 to provide a safe, contiguous habitat spanning much of Florida where rare or threatened land-based species including birds, reptiles, panthers and bears can flourish.
Source: Guardian US News
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