Florida Proposes New Sloth Protections After Orlando Deaths — SkimNews
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- Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission proposed new rules to strengthen protections for sloths imported into the state, acting roughly four months after investigative reporting exposed deaths at a tourism site.
- The push follows an Inside Climate News investigation that revealed dozens of wild sloths imported from South America died at a planned Orlando tourism attraction.
Why it matters: The rulemaking directly responds to documented deaths of dozens of imported wild sloths at a tourism site, signaling that the state is moving to close a regulatory gap around exotic wildlife imports used for entertainment.
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