Tentative Times for Treefrogs
By Melinda Schuman | Biologist Humans have undoubtedly had an impact on the land in Florida. Occasionally the history of an area and how humans have interacted with it gets…
A diet of glass for Kemp’s ridleys
By Dr. Jeff Schmid | Conservancy Environmental Research Manager Some marine turtles have a “diet of glass”, but this is not the eating disorder of hyalophagia or a circus sideshow…
Invasion of the Atomic Sunfish
By Conservancy Research Manager, Dr. Jeff Schmid The atomic sunfish has invaded our coasts! Not in the sense of a nuclear disaster followed by a monstrous creature emerging from the…
Help us battle invasive species in Southwest Florida
Invasive species are a top-tier environmental issue here in Southwest Florida. Burmese pythons are eating their way through the wildlife in the Greater Everglades Ecosystem; cane toads outcompete their native…
Sea turtle numbers from Keewaydin Island
Over the years, sea turtle nesting on Keewaydin Island has started off with a bang or sometimes with a whimper. This year is the 39th year of Conservancy biologists monitoring…
20,000 pounds of Burmese python removed
A team of wildlife biologists at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, in partnership with the United States Geological Survey, have published peer-reviewed research on the longest and largest tracking study…
Adventures of Doodler and a Hobbit
A biologist’s recap on deploying a satellite transmitter on a sea turtle In 1995, the Conservancy’s sea turtle biologists first encountered Doodler, a loggerhead sea turtle. Her carapace (shell) measured…
