Florida along with 16 other states ill share in 53 million dollars in federal grants to buy land to help protect endangered species.
The money is coming from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to allow the states to work with private landowners, conservation groups, and other agencies to buy and protect land to support the conservation of threatened and endangered species.
The state will get nearly 3 million dollars to purchase 20 acres of gulf front property in Perdido Key that is habitat of the Perdido Key beach mouse.
An additional 200 thousand dollars will help buy eight acres along the Atlantic Ocean in St. Johns County to protect Anastasia Island beach mouse habitat as well as beaches used by nesting loggerhead, Kemp’s ridley, leatherback, green, and hawksbill sea turtles.
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