Track Sea Turtles!
On June 26, 2025, the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation rolled out a public website that shows live tracks of satellite-tagged loggerheads, boosting research and public engagement.
Click here: ​sccf.hammerhead360.com/

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National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Announces $4 Million in Grants to Support Sustainable Fisheries
Grants will support efficient fisheries data collection and expand innovations to new fisheries
On March 28, 2024, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and NOAA Fisheries announced $4 million
in grants to support data modernization and electronic data collection in U.S. fisheries. The grants will generate
$7.5 million in matching contributions for a total conservation impact of $11.5 million.

The 17 projects will expand proven electronic technologies to new fisheries, deploy artificial intelligence onboard
vessels to make electronic data collection more efficient, and enhance data collection in some of the nation’s largest
fisheries. Projects will support sustainable management efforts in federal and state fisheries in Alaska, California,
Florida, Hawai‘i, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington State, along with the
territory of Puerto Rico.  Read more in the EPA newsletter here
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Watch Podcast here
The story of the Florida Scrub-Jay is one that encompasses many modern conservation angles and concerns. Local government, bedrock federal legislation, development, climate change, eBird, and at the center of it, a remarkable and friendly endemic bird species. Recent challenges to conservation efforts in Florida have prompted the public interest group Earthjustice to intervene to help defend protections for the Florida Scrub Jay and lead attorney Aaron Bloom joins us to to lay out the threats to the jays and to all endangered species, and how birders have helped to make his case.
ECOSWF supports Florida Forever purchase by fee simple of 550 acres identified as Myakka Corridor.
See supporting letter

Legislature approves bill to prevent development at Florida state parks
​Story here
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Powerful Florida developer hears a rare response from Manatee County: No! Billionaire builder Pat Neal wanted to put houses in a flood-prone area despite neighbors’ objections, but commissioners rejected his request.

January 17, 2025
Court strikes down federal rule that would have allowed U.S. “bomb trains”
Major rail car explosion risk now averted throughout American communities
Read more here: https://earthjustice.org/press/2025/court-strikes-down-proposed-rule-that-would-have-allowed-u-s-bomb-trains