Eco-tour the Keys

03/18/2024

Every ripple counts!

This Global Recycling Day, let's join hands and make waves of change together. From plastic bottles to ocean cleanups, every small action adds up to a cleaner, healthier planet.

Together, we can turn the tide on plastic pollution 🌏♻️🌊💙

03/07/2023

Spot a horseshoe crab?

Calling all Citizen Scientists! It’s almost spring - that means it’s peak horseshoe crab mating season – and our researchers need your help! If you spot a horseshoe crab, report your sighting: http://bit.ly/3mqD0yh

Horseshoe crabs’ mate year-round, but it is most common to see mating groups along the shore of sandy, lower wave action beaches in March and April (as well as September and October). Beachgoers will have the best luck spotting horseshoe crabs around high tide, within a few days of a new or full moon.

Reporting horseshoe crab sightings provides valuable information about habitat use, population distribution, and environmental conditions for nesting to the FWC. Although horseshoe crabs have existed for more than 450 million years, scientists are still learning about Florida populations. Learn more about horseshoe crabs and the Florida Horseshoe Crab Watch Program: https://myfwc.com/research/saltwater/crustaceans/horseshoe-crabs/

Report horseshoe crabs sightings to FWC for Science: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/FLFFWCC/bulletins/34ce895

MyFWC Florida Fish and Wildlife

03/05/2023

02/28/2023

Kiley

02/21/2023

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=517797170471039&id=100067222819871&mibextid=qC1gEa

JOHN CHRISTOPHER FINE is a marine biologist and carries out coral-reef research from his home in the city of Boynton Beach, a popular Florida diving location. What he saw on a recent dive there didn’t exactly surprise him, but it did prompt him to write this piece…

05/13/2021

06/24/2020

Where the fish mom?

06/24/2020

Someone is a little chilly this morning

05/31/2020

12/04/2019

Employees with Key West’s Fury Water Adventures rescued a juvenile dolphin on Nov. 30. The dolphin had become entangled in lobster trap line and was struggling to breathe.

11/27/2019

What is she thinking about??

09/16/2019