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Florida gopher tortoise probe alleges unreported deaths, risky conditions for threatened species

Por: Orlando Sentinel Crime February 12, 2023

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As one of Florida’s most valuable species and already threatened with extinction, gopher tortoises might have been dealt a blow by the state wildlife agency’s failure to oversee the program it set up years ago to protect the land-dwelling animals. A grisly era of developers paying for permission to bulldoze living gopher tortoises was abolished more than a decade ago. That practice was replaced with current Florida Fish and Wildlife... + full article



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