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Pining for the Rocklands
The pine rockland ecosystem is one of the most endangered habitats in Florida with just 1.2% remaining outside of the Everglades. It's also filled with endangered wildlife, including Florida bonneted bats, Miami tiger beetles, Bartram’s scrub-hairstreak butterflies, eastern indigo snakes, native plants, and 98 other imperiled species. But a decades-long Miami-Dade County plan to build a waterpark and other attractions on a critical piece of habitat — a 67-acre plot next to Zoo Miami — suddenly threatened to wipe out that biodiversity.
Miami-Dade: Animals at shelters in Doral and Medley need foster homes
DORAL, Fla. – Like many shelters nationwide, Miami-Dade Animal Services is facing an overpopulation crisis due to fewer pet adoptions, inflation, and other factors. Flora Beal, a spokeswoman for the county agency, said the locations in Doral and Medley are overcrowded likely due to housing insecurities. “We normally can...
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