Defenders in Florida
Florida Manatee, © Brian Skerry / National Geographic Stock
Florida Panther, © Superstock

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Policy
Eighty percent of threatened and endangered species rely on privately owned land for their habitat needs and in the U.S. most of our private land is managed by farmers, ranchers and forest landowners.
Florida Manatee, Photo: Jim Reid / USFWS
Species at Risk
Habitat loss and collisions with watercraft threaten these giant and gentle marine mammals.
Florida Panther, Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Species at Risk
Though they’re the state animal, only 100 to 160 of these big cats remain in a single population in south Florida.