Environmental

Emergency Endangered Species Protection Sought to Save Florida’s Miami Tiger Beetle From Shopping Mall, Theme Park

Development Would Destroy Beetle’s Only Known Habitat

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—(ENEWSPF)–December 11, 2014.  The Center for Biological Diversity today filed emergency petitions to protect an extremely rare, beautiful beetle, found only in the pine rocklands of South Florida, as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act and as a protected species under Florida law.  

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Miami tiger beetle
Miami tiger beetle photo © Chris Wirth.

“This amazing, gem-like creature, once thought to be extinct, was only recently rediscovered,” said…

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