{"id":270259,"date":"2026-05-14T01:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/270259\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T01:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:33:11","slug":"florida-suspends-sloth-imports-after-orlando-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/270259\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida suspends sloth imports after Orlando debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dozens<\/p>\n

Dozens of sloths died after having been acquired for a scrapped Orlando attraction.<\/p>\n

YURI CORTEZ<\/p>\n

YURI CORTEZ\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission on Wednesday suspended most sloth imports to the state for 60 days, a victory for lawmakers and conservationists seeking to secure a permanent ban following the deaths of dozens of the animals acquired for a scrapped Orlando attraction.<\/p>\n

\u201cFlorida making this decision will send a ripple effect across the country,\u201d said state Rep. Anna Eskamani, D-Orlando, who had met with FWC officials to voice her concerns along with sloth experts based in Costa Rica.<\/p>\n

The executive order, published hours after it was announced in a public meeting in Fort Myers, still allowed the entry of sloths scheduled to arrive in Florida before Wednesday with proper documentation, including a captive wildlife importation permit issued by FWC.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear how the order will be enforced, and an FWC spokesperson did not respond to a message seeking comment.<\/p>\n

Read more at the South Florida Sun Sentinel here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of sloths died after having been acquired for a scrapped Orlando attraction. YURI CORTEZ YURI CORTEZ\/AFP via…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-270259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270259","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=270259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}