Environment

A second egg has hatched successfully at the eagle nest along Bayshore Road in North Fort Myers.Designed as eaglet E25, the newborn chick joined its sibling E24 shortly before 6 a.m. Tuesday.The eaglets are the second chicks to hatch from mated pair F23 (short for Female 2023) and M15 (short for Male 2015).

Red tide samples are coming up positive throughout Southwest Florida, but it's offshore where it's making an impact when anglers arrive to find out the organism got into the live wells and killed their bait.

An eaglet hatched at the active bald eagle nest along Bayshore Drive in North Fort Myers on Saturday afternoon with a second egg being watched.The official hatch time for the eaglet named E24 was 4:01 p.m.The new eaglet is the offspring of mated pair F23 (short for Female 2023) and M15 (short for Male 2015).A pip, or initial crack, was confirmed Sunday in the nest's second egg.

As 2024 comes to an end, some journalists are having difficulty keeping the official panther death count from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission accurate. Why is unclear.

The Peace River Wildlife Center in Punta Gorda is moving forward and officials are hopeful that the facility's education center will soon be back open. They have removed buildings at the education center and will use temporary structures so they can bring the wildlife residents home and reopen. PRWC has resumed medical care at their hospital facility.

A special Sanibel Island-wide cleanup will be held Dec. 14 celebrating Sanibel City’s 50th Anniversary.

Damage from Hurricane Milton is driving down citrus production from what was already expected to be a historic low in the current growing season, according to a federal report released Tuesday.

A conservation-oriented project funded via a U.S. Forest Service grant will decrease erosion and improve water quality at Lee County's popular Lakes Park.

Little Blue Herons are medium in size among herons – bigger than a Green Heron, but much smaller than a Great Blue Heron. The “blue color” of adults often tends towards gray and it helps them blend in with their aquatic environment. This heron is unusual in that its juvenile plumage is all white – a characteristic that allows it to blend in with other white birds – which it readily does, thus gaining “group” protection from potential predators and access to food resources found by the other species. Adults are much more solitary.

The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation is offering prizes and specials for new volunteers as the group continues to grow.