The University of Miami sold 88 acres of pine rocklands to developer Ram, which intends to create apartments, a Walmart the size of 3 football fields, and a Chick-fil-A. The pine rocklands are only found in Southern Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas.
As Americans, stop putting dollars bills over everything else in our lives and our country.
Only 2% of Florida's savanna has survived until now, there's no reason that number should shrink.
“You wonder how things end up being endangered? This is how,” Dennis Olle, a lawyer and a board member of Tropical Audubon and the North American Butterfly Association, told The Miami Herald. “This is bad policy and bad enforcement. And shame on UM.”
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