In 2018, the southern fox squirrel (then known as the Sherman's fox squirrel) was removed from Florida's Endangered and Threatened Species List as a Species of ...

Because of this, the squirrels are protected throughout Florida with law prohibiting the hunting and capturing of these creatures.

They are also protected by 68A-29.002, F.A.C. which states that no person shall take, buy, sell, transport or possess fox squirrels, their nests, or young. Take ...

26 мар. 2014 г. · Throughout Florida, the conservation and management of fox squirrels is constrained by a lack of reliable information on the factors ...

9 нояб. 2015 г. · The species is protected from hunting and two of the four subspecies, Sherman's Fox Squirrel and the Big Cyprus Fox Squirrel, are listed as threatened.

Another species, the Big Cypress Fox Squirrel, makes its home in and around the Everglades. It is an endangered species and protected by the State of Florida ...

Legal Aspects: -. Fox squirrels are protected in Florida and may not be trapped or killed unless permitted by the commission or during legal hunting seasons.

While some subspecies of fox squirrel are considered protected species, in the western part of the Florida panhandle a subspecies called Sherman's fox squirrel ...

Sherman's fox squirrels are already highly threatened by habitat loss with only an estimated 15% of their historic habitat remaining intact. The arid land they ...