The topic for the next League of Women Voters \u201cEducational Events\u201d presentation Saturday,\u00a0April 4, is Overdevelopment in SWFL: \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sacrificing Wildlife and Erasing Agriculture.<\/p>\n
The guest speakers are Amber Crooks, senior environmental policy advisor for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida; Katrina Shadix, executive director of Bear Warriors United, a nonprofit dedicated to defending Florida\u2019s wildlife and ensuring peaceful coexistence between humans and nature; and John Hallman, a longtime cattle rancher whose passion is preserving Florida\u2019s working farms and ranches.<\/p>\n
The topics they will discuss include \u201cHow does fast-tracking overdevelopment of agricultural lands threaten food security and endanger Florida Farms?\u201d and \u201cHow is destruction of habitat and depriving food jeopardizing species?\u201d<\/p>\n
The in-person discussion will run from 9-11 a.m., with registration and networking from 9-9:30 a.m., at The Collaboratory,\u00a02031 Jackson St., Fort Myers. It will also be available via Zoom with the link being emailed to all registrants.<\/p>\n
The meeting is free and the public is invited.<\/p>\n
For additional information or to register for the presentation, visit https:\/\/LWVLeeEnvironmentUpdate.eventbrite.com, email lwvlee@lwvlee.org\u00a0or call (239) 278-1032.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The topic for the next League of Women Voters \u201cEducational Events\u201d presentation Saturday,\u00a0April 4, is Overdevelopment in SWFL:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-193577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}