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1. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Max Chesnes

   Florida is losing its federal wildlife staff in droves (opens the original)

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   For nearly three decades, James Wortham flew planes over Florida’s coastline, tracking migratory birds and counting manatees. Abigail Berg improved a 4-mile road through the wetlands of JN “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island. Todd Coudret introduced military veterans and children to the tidal salt marshes of Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge on Florida’s Atlantic coast, where he taught them fishing and archery. All three felt called to serve Florida’s shrinking wild s

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2. Article · Jul 13, 2026 · Max Chesnes

   Amid federal push for Gulf oil drilling, research reinforces threat to a rare whale species (opens the original)

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   A recently published study adds more scientific weight to a claim the Trump administration is trying to discredit: The Rice’s whale, Earth’s only filter-feeding whale that lives exclusively in the Gulf of Mexico offshore Florida, is a species of its own. A team of university and federal researchers mapped DNA from 25 Rice’s whales, accounting for about half the estimated total alive today. They found the species has existed as a small, isolated population in the Gulf for tens of thousands of yea

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