Florida: ESA Section 6 Program

Florida Photo: State Seal

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Tallahassee, FL

Cooperative Agreement signed: July 1, 2003
Amended December 4, 2009

Florida's agreement lists the following species:

Endangered

• Green turtle (Chelonia mydas)*
  *Green turtles are listed as threatened, except for breeding populations of green turtles in Florida and on the Pacific coast of Mexico, where they are listed as endangered.
• Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)
• Kemp's ridley turtle (Lepidochelys kempii)
• Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
• North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis)
• Shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum)
• Smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata)

Threatened

• Elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata)
• Gulf sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi)
• Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta)
• Staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis)

Note: To be eligible for funding through the Species Recovery Grants program, species listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) must be covered by the State's section 6 agreement. Proposed and candidate species that occur in the State do not need to be listed on the agreement to be eligible for funding.