Key deer

The Sierra Club sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service after it quietly began re-evaluating the status of the endangered deer and refused to make reports public.

The endangered Key deer are one of the iconic animals of South Florida. The small deer are popular with tourists for photos. But, it can be dangerous for…

U.S. Fish & Wildlife officials Thursday evening faced a crowd of Keys residents strongly opposed to removing the Key deer from the Endangered Species…

The federal government is considering removing the iconic Key deer from the Endangered Species List.Key deer, a small subspecies of the North American…

A brushfire has burned about 100 acres and destroyed one home on Big Pine Key — an island that saw some of the worst devastation from Hurricane Irma.The…

The last couple of years have not been kind to the endangered Key deer.A grisly, flesh-eating screwworm infected the planet’s only herd in the Lower Keys…

One of two men caught illegally poaching three endangered Key deer was sentenced Tuesday to 12 months in federal custody. The other received supervised…

The endangered Key deer herd was already coming out of a tough year — the herd lost more than 100 animals to New World screwworm.So when the eye of…

Federal wildlife managers in the Florida Keys have a message for residents: Please stop feeding the endangered deer.Since Irma washed over Cudjoe Key…

Update July 6: The captured buck was euthanized Thursday morning, after an evaluation by a veterinarian, according to Keys refuge manager Dan Clark. The…

It appears the endangered Key deer are winning the battle against the deadly screwworm fly.But U.S. Fish & Wildlife officials are taking no chances as the…

A Key deer was euthanized this week after it was found to be infested with screwworm. That's the bad news.The good news is that it had been almost a month…