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 ENDANGERED SPECIES OF SOUTH WALTON

   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

Florida Panther
Felis concolor coryi
© Joe Kenner, US Fish & Wildlife Service
Federally Endangered

Eastern Indigo Snake
Drymarshon corais couperi
courtesy US Fish & Wildlife Service
Federally Endangered

Florida Black Bear
Ursus americanus floridus
Federally Endangered

Green Sea Turtle
Chelonia mydas
© 2000 Doug Perrine, Innerspace Visions
perrine@kona.net
Federally Endangered

Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Picoides borealis
courtesy US Fish & Wildlife Service
Federally Endangered

Flatwoods Salmander
Ambystoma cingulatum
© 2000 John Jenson
Federally Endangered

West Indian Manatee
Trichechus manatus latirostris
© Mike Brim, US Fish & Wildlife Service
Federally Endangered

Loggerhead Sea Turtle
Caretta caretta
© 2000 Doug Perrine, Innerspace Visions
perrine@kona.net
Federally Threatened

Gopher Tortoise
Gopherus polyphemus
courtesy Eglin Air Force Base
Species of Critical Concern

Gulf Sturgeon
Acipenser oxyrhynchus desotoi
courtesy US Fish & Wildlife Service
Federally Endangered

Bald Eagle
Haliaeetus leucocephalus
© Mike Lockhart, US Fish & Wildlife Service
Federally Endangered