{"id":49453,"date":"2025-11-17T06:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T06:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/49453\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T06:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T06:06:08","slug":"save-the-florida-panther-and-the-florida-wildlife-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/49453\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Florida Panther and the Florida Wildlife Corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On this week\u2019s one hour show, 11-14-25, WMNF\u2019s host of Down \u2018n Dirty, Attorney and Former Tampa City Councilman, John Dingfelder (john.dingfelder@icloud.com), is joined by environmental attorneys Richard Grosso https:\/\/richardgrossopa.com\/<\/a> and Jason Totoiu https:\/\/www.biologicaldiversity.org\/ <\/a>.\u00a0 The host and panel discuss the preservation of the Florida Wildlife Corridor and the endangered Florida Panther.\u00a0 Rich, Jason, John and several callers focus on the importance of local governments\u2019 use of their Comprehensive Plans and Zoning Maps to reduce population density in environmentally sensitive areas and help preserve native habitat.\u00a0 Jason also addresses the current lawsuit against the federal government\u2019s use of Alligator Alcatraz\u00a0https:\/\/www.everglades.org\/alligator-alcatraz-lawsuit\/<\/a> in derogation of numerous environmental laws designed to protect the Everglades and its unique resident, the Florida Panther. To learn more about conservation efforts in the Tampa Bay area, check out https:\/\/www.tampabayconservancy.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this week\u2019s one hour show, 11-14-25, WMNF\u2019s host of Down \u2018n Dirty, Attorney and Former Tampa City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,31592,3293],"class_list":{"0":"post-49453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news","11":"tag-florida-panther","12":"tag-florida-wildlife-corridor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49453","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=49453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}