NORTH PORT – The Environmental Conservancy of North Port and Surrounding Areas is driving to raise nearly $4,300 to meet a May 31 deadline to buy a lot that would double the size of the existing ...

ENGLEWOOD – The Environmental Conservancy of North Port and Surrounding Areas is working to raise $15,000 by Sept. 5 to buy a quarter-acre in a known Florida Scrub-Jay habitat area on Clearwater ...

Florida lawmakers will get a chance in 2026 to ditch the common mockingbird in favor of the America flamingo as the state ...

Two Republican House members have filed a bill to replace the Northern Mockingbird as Florida's state bird. Proponents suggest the native scrub jay or the flamingo as replacements that are more unique ...

Storyteller Gary Bremen, a retired National Park Ranger, and singer/songwriter Grant Livingston performed at Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park in 2019. Glenn Allman The threatened Florida ...

ENGLEWOOD – The Environmental Conservancy of North Port and Surrounding Areas closed Sept. 5 on the purchase of a quarter-acre lot in prime Florida Scrub-Jay habitat on Clearwater Street, after ...

The Environmental Conservancy of North Port needs to raise $4,300 by May 31 to purchase land that would double the size of the Kathleen Belleville Nature Preserve. The quarter-acre lot is located off ...

The Environmental Conservancy of North Port needs $15,000 by September 5th to purchase a quarter-acre lot in Englewood, Florida, to protect Florida Scrub-Jay habitat. This would be the conservancy's ...