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November 17, 2022

Saving America’s Micro Deer

The Key deer (Odocoileus virginianus clavium) is the smallest whitetail subspecies topping out at 60 pounds and living exclusively in their namesake islands on the Florida coast. Seeing a herd of Key deer on my honeymoon in […]
September 20, 2019

Is This The Tiniest Whitetail Ever?

My late uncle Jackie Moore was a man of few words but when he told a story it always seemed to have an interesting twist-especially when it came to whitetail deer. “It crossed the road in […]
November 15, 2017

Poachers try to smuggled endangered key deer-in their trunk!

Two South Florida residents, who captured and restrained three Florida Key deer on Big Pine Key, were sentenced Oct. 31, 2017, in federal court in Key West for violations of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Erik […]
September 17, 2017

Key Deer survive Hurricane Irma (video)

We have been promising to keep you updated as to the status of the federally endangered key deer in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. The following is a video captured by veteran television journalist David Sutta […]