South Walton is a precious and imperiled ecosystem. Its beauty and natural environment is being systematically destroyed by development. The single greatest threat to wildlife on the planet today, and certainly in South Walton, is loss of habitat. Not all doomed species disappear immediately. Most first suffer loss of their ranges and gene pool to dangerously low levels, eventually descending to join what biologists call the ``living dead." Learn more about the endangered species of South Walton, and do what you can to help protect the native inhabitants with whom we share this beautiful place.
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Choctawhatchee Beach Mouse Peromyscus polionotus allophrys courtesy US Fish & Wildlife Service Federally Endangered