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What's Killing the Key Deer?


What's Killing the Key Deer? - National Wildlife Federation

What's Killing the Key Deer? From land use to traffic, the deck is being stacked against this endangered species.

Florida's iconic Key deer face an uncertain future as seas rise - NBC 6

Salt water intrusion also is responsible for killing many of the Florida slash pines that gave Big Pine Key its name. Mangroves are growing in ...

What's Killing the Key Deer? - Sporting Classics Daily

The deadly New World screwworm, actually a fly that lays its larvae in the open wounds of warm-blooded animals, is taking its toll on the Key deer.

Shrinking habitat raises questions about how to save endangered ...

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: In the Keys of southern Florida, the tiny, elusive Key deer were found to be facing extinction from overhunting, land ...

Key Deer | FWC - Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

Key deer feed on over 160 species of plants, including native red, black and white mangroves and thatch palm berries. As human development has increased within ...

Florida's iconic Key deer face an uncertain future as seas rise - PBS

Salt water intrusion also is responsible for killing many of the Florida slash pines that gave Big Pine Key its name. Mangroves are growing in ...

Key deer - Center for Biological Diversity

In 1998, road mortality accounted for 67 percent of all known deaths [1]. Since 1985, more than 90% of all deer road kills occurred on Big Pine Key, mainly on ...

The Fight to Save Florida's Key Deer – B&C Impact Series

What is the Key Deer. Few people have heard of the Key deer. Even fewer have seen one. To be fair, they're easy to miss. As the smallest of the whitetail deer ...

Screwworm infestation kills endangered deer

More than 130 endangered deer have been killed by a decades-absent parasite, now a resurgent organism in the Florida Keys.

Official: Pest that's been killing Key deer will be defeated | AP News

There hadn't been a U.S. infestation in over 30 years, until agriculture officials confirmed in September that screwworm was killing the dog- ...

Key Deer | National Wildlife Federation

Due to encroachment on their habitat and their lack of fear of humans, some of the animals have been known to eat plants in people's gardens. Because Key deer ...

National Key Deer Refuge | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

The endangered Key deer is the smallest subspecies of the North American white-tailed deer. They are the only large herbivore in the Florida ...

How one of Florida's most beloved animals may be close to climate ...

In the Florida Keys, one of the state's most beloved animals also took a beating: the Key deer, a small subspecies of white-tailed deer that ...

Florida's Key Deer at Risk From Rising Sea Levels - Newsweek

What Will Happen to the Deer? ... Just six inches of sea rise, which is expected by 2030, would mean the loss of 16 percent of the freshwater ...

The Fight to Save Florida's Key Deer - B&C Impact Series

There isn't even a hunting season for these tiny deer living in the Florida Keys. That doesn't mean Boone and Crockett Club members turned a ...

What Predator Eats the Key Deer? | Pets on Mom.com

In a truly wild environment, the key deer's natural predators would be Florida panthers. Panthers also are endangered and are not commonly seen in the keys. A ...

Key deer - Wikipedia

The Key deer (Odocoileus virginianus clavium) is an endangered subspecies of the white-tailed deer that lives only in the Florida Keys.

Judge sentences woman to year probation for killing Key deer

A woman who was facing a year in federal prison for what local environmentalists said was the mercy killing of a suffering endangered Key ...

Climate change is threatening Florida's Key deer - The Week

As the United States continues to feel the effects of global warming and rising sea levels, there is renewed concern for the Key deer, ...

A Long-Gone Parasite Returns to Florida, Leaving a Trail of Dead ...

The New World screwworm fly, a pest that officials thought was eradicated decades ago, is killing off Key deer and threatening Florida's ...