Endangered Florida panther threatened by development project, experts say

[turbinetree]

Almost half of proposed area of construction falls within hunting and roaming zone that is essential to animal’s survival

The extinction of the endangered Florida panther could be hastened by a large development proposed for the state, environmental groups are warning, as a major project is expected to win approval from the Trump administration as early as April.

Up to 45,000 acres of rural Collier county in south-west Florida are earmarked for housing and commercial development under the plan drawn up by a coalition of 11 major Florida landowners, as well as new sand and gravel mines.

Several new cities would be created by the project, adding hundreds of thousands of new residents and hundreds of miles of new roadways.

But almost half of the proposed area of construction falls within what US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) scientists recognise as “primary zone” for dwindling numbers of the Florida panther, a subspecies of puma of which barely 200 adults are believed to survive.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/02/florida-panther-extinction-collier-county-development-project


I have just gotta ask, to any Floridians that are this area, how many of your malls, are completely full of tenants, how many homes are sitting empty....................for example.................

https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180318/sarasota-real-estate-booms-timeline

[Bayard]

1. Just what this country needs

More cities. More companies paying off politicians. More wildlife being exterminated.

[marmar]

2. For a state that's already being hit by climate change like no other...

..... Florida's environmental policies are disastrous.