Species Action Plans
Species Action Plans are a key component of Florida’s Imperiled Species Management Plan. Species Action Plans describe the conservation actions necessary to minimize impacts of known threats, improve habitat conditions, and streamline efforts to conserve the species. Numerous stakeholders partner with FWC staff to develop Species Action Plans to address species-specific needs identified through Biological Status Review Reports. Implementation of the Species Action Plans is ongoing, and involves both FWC and partner effort.
All Species Action Plans have accompanying Species Conservation Measures and Permitting Guidelines, which contain species-specific biological descriptions, technical assistance for conservation practices, strategies to avoid take of the species, and permitting options when take will occur.
- Alligator snapping turtle species
- Barbour's map turtle
- Florida brown snake-lower Keys population only
- Florida Keys mole skink
- Florida pine snake
- Florida reef gecko
- Key ringneck snake
- Peninsula ribbon snake-lower Keys population only
- Red rat snake-lower Keys population only
- Rim rock crowned snake
- Short-tailed snake
- Striped mud turtle-lower Keys population only
- Suwannee cooter
- Brown pelican
- Burrowing owl
- Florida sandhill crane
- Limpkin
- Imperiled beach-nesting birds: American oystercatcher, snowy plover, least tern, black skimmer
- Imperiled wading birds: little blue heron, reddish egret, roseate spoonbill, snowy egret, tricolored heron, white ibis
- Osprey
- Saltmarsh songbirds: Scott's seaside sparrow, Wakulla seaside sparrow, Marian's marsh wren, Worthington's marsh wren
- Southeastern American kestrel
- White-crowned pigeon