Environment

The free event will feature experts from business, academia, and government with practical information and ideas on increasing nature’s ability to rebound from extreme changes in Southwest Florida.

A Naples firm wants to turn a vehicle proving ground built in the Florida Everglades into an “iconic” luxury-car lovers exclusive community. Conservation organizations strongly oppose the idea.

Florida’s Rural and Family Lands Protection Program is protecting more than 9,100 acres in the Peace River Valley.

The Charlotte County Commission has voted to rescind the countywide burn ban previously reenacted on April 28.

Sanibel residents interested in protecting the island’s environment and helping shape city government have a chance to get involved this month.

A person finds the baby alone, assumes the worst, and scoops it up. State wildlife officials say most of those rescues were mistakes. However, many of the baby creatures that flood the region's animal hospitals every spring were never in trouble.

Afternoon showers have been popping up throughout Southwest Florida since the year began, but more so since the summer rainy season started May 15 in places like Collier County where 4.5 inches have fallen in less than three weeks. That’s inspired the watering restrictions and outdoor burn bans to an end in some communities, while others are leaving them in place for now.

Audubon Florida wants poets from Southwest Florida and the rest of the state to write haikus celebrating both vulture species ahead of International Vulture Awareness Day on the first Saturday of September each year

Failing clean water standards would have consequences that spread beyond the Everglades.

It’s tough to overstate the importance of mangrove forests along Florida’s Gulf Coast, where they shield homes and lives from hurricane storm surge, especially a repaired portion like part of what is now the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.