Trump Administration Opens Door To Dropping Florida’s Key Deer From Endangered List

August 28, 2019btollesonRSS Sample

As part of a national plan reassessing the status of animals and plants on the Endangered Species List, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recommended that Key Deer be "delisted due to recovery."

U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials recommended that Key Deer be “delisted due to recovery,” but advocates say the Key Deer population was hard hit by Hurricane Irma and its aftermath.

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