Author: Max Chesnes

Over the past three years, state and federal wildlife officials have been forced to make extraordinary decisions to save Florida’s endangered wildlife.In 2021, wildlife experts approved the first-ever feeding trial for starving manatees. Biologists feed sea cows lettuce because their main food source, seagrass, lacks human-caused pollution.Last year, faced with perhaps the most widespread coral bleaching crisis in Florida history, scientists raced to save corals from searing ocean temperatures. The mass evacuation of the coral was the first of its kind.The latest decision – to save a species on the brink – begins next week in the Florida Keys. This…