A plan unveiled Monday by a group of environmental advocates and landowners would set aside about 160-thousand acres in Collier County as panther habitat. WGCU’s Mike Kiniry reports.

It’s like Smart Growth planning with the Florida panther in mind. The proposed plan outlines which areas of panther habitat around Immokalee in Collier County could be developed…and which could not.

Alan Keller is President of the Collier County Audubon Society…one of the partnering conservation organizations behind the plan.