Tag Archives: Collier County
Continued development is threatening the Florida Panther with extinction
The growth in Eastern Collier County has been ridiculous. As someone who regularly hikes in Big Cypress National Preserve and Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge, I have seen the increase in traffic along SR 29 and the creeping of housing developments further and further east along Collier’s main thoughroufares. Now we have this report from […]
Record number of Florida Panthers killed in 2014
Florida’s endangered Panther population suffered a record number of deaths this year. 30 panthers have been killed this year in Collier and Hendry Counties, and an alarmingly high 21 have been killed in road accidents. The decline in habitat for the Panther thanks largely to recent development further east in Collier County is at least partially […]
The Florida Squeeze 