Save Our Shores! Florida

01/05/2023

The Everglades is both a national treasure and a vital ecosystem for wildlife. Check out these five fascinating facts about one of the most amazing places on Earth.

10/09/2021

A longtime marine conservation advocate knows full well that beneath the surface there are ever-growing problems. Case in point, a record die-off of manatees this year.

01/11/2021

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/11/manatee-trump-etched-into-back-florida

US Fish and Wildlife Service appeals for public’s help after mutilated aquatic mammal spotted at spring in Florida

04/20/2020

Today is the 10 year anniversary of the BP oil spill, and the oil drillers are setting us up for an even worse disaster as the government deregulates.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters,...

07/20/2019

Just sayin’ 🙃

08/17/2018

It is critical that you sign this.

Rick Scott: Florida's Gulf Coast is Dying! Millions of Dead Fish, Sea Turtles, Manatees and Dolphins!

10/21/2017

Well, well. LLOG just doubled the estimate of their deepwater oil spill in the Gulf; now it's at 672,000 gallons. The Coast Guard considers any spill over 100,000 gallons to be a "major" oil spill, their highest category. We are still looking for satellite imagery of the area; we've seen nothing useful since the Sentinel-1 radar image we published that was taken on October 12 and showed a relatively small slick in the general area. Since this was a release on the seafloor more than 4,000 feet down, it may take days for the oil to surface.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/energy-environment/more-oil-than-initially-believed-spilled-off-louisiana-coast/2017/10/19/fd3551c0-b526-11e7-9b93-b97043e57a22_story.html?utm_term=.ef49ecfcc897

10/17/2017

An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last week may be the largest in the U.S. since the 2010 blowout at BP Plc’s Macondo well that sank the Deepwater Horizon rig.

07/24/2017

We'll miss you, Snooty 😢

UPDATE: South Florida Museum officials said Snooty was found in an underwater area only used to access plumbing for the exhibit life support system. Early indications are that an access

04/21/2017

The scientists developed a survey to put a dollar value on the natural resources damaged by the spill by determining household willingness to pay for measures that would prevent similar damages should a spill of the same magnitude happen in the future.