bonneted bats

Commissioners approved the Miami Wilds park plan and an option for a larger hotel after vowing to protect bats and remove pineland from the deal.

A parks committee has recommended Miami-Dade County approve a 40-year lease on land near Zoo Miami for a hotel, shops and a water park.

A Miami-Dade parks committee will review a proposal to lease land near Zoo Miami to developers hoping to build a hotel, shopping and water park. The land also provides habitat for the nation's rarest bat.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to designate an area three times the size of Lake Okeechobee as critical habitat for Florida’s rare bonneted…