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• Governor Ron DeSantis Highlights Florida’s Successful Efforts to Protect Florida’s Manatees

  Tuesday, February 6, 2024 -  Since 2019, Governor DeSantis has approved more than $50 million for manatee protection, expanding and enhancing manatee rescue and rehabilitation efforts and providing habitat restoration for areas where manatees are highly concentrated.

• MarineQuest 2024: Celebrating science for 29 years!

  Tuesday, January 30, 2024 -  MarineQuest will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 10 and will be hosted at the FWC's Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in downtown St. Petersburg at 100 8th Avenue SE.

• FWC: have a safety plan before the storm, learn how to prevent unwanted wildlife encounters

  Thursday, January 11, 2024 -  Severe thunderstorms with the potential to produce high winds and hail are expected across parts of northwest Florida on Friday, Jan. 12.

• FWC: New panther license plate available

  Thursday, December 14, 2023 -  The new design features a striking photograph taken by Carlton Ward in 2018 of the first female panther documented north of the Caloosahatchee River since 1973, along with her kitten.

• FWC invites public to Harris Chain Open House

  Monday, December 11, 2023 -  The event will be held on Jan. 24, 2024, from 3-8 p.m. at The Venetian Center, 1 Dozier Circle, Leesburg, FL 34748.

• Boaters encouraged to be on the lookout during right whale calving season

  Wednesday, December 6, 2023 -  This endangered species is extremely hard to spot and collisions with vessels put passengers and crew at risk and could cause injury or death to right whales.

• FWC Commissioners review proposed rule revisions for wildlife rehabilitation

  Wednesday, December 6, 2023 -  The proposed amendments will increase public safety, improve animal welfare, clarify current rule language, increase professionalism and update requirements for wildlife rehabilitation permittees.

• FWC seeks public input on native plant list

  Wednesday, November 29, 2023 -  The FWC is seeking public input on a draft addendum to the State Wildlife Action Plan. The purpose of this addendum is to incorporate 596 native plant species into the state’s Species of Greatest Conservation Need list.

• FWC to meet Dec. 5 in Orlando

  Monday, November 20, 2023 -  For the full Dec. 5 agenda and links to background reports, go to MyFWC.com/Commission and select “Commission Meetings.”

• Go slow, look out below when on the water this Manatee Awareness Month

  Tuesday, November 14, 2023 -  As temperatures start to dip in the fall, manatees travel to Florida springs, power plant discharge areas and other warm-water sites to overwinter until temperatures rise again in the spring.