ナショナルジオグラフィックさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ナショナルジオグラフィックInstagram)「Photo by Carlton Ward, Jr. @CarltonWard | I’m pretty well connected to wild Florida. But when I transitioned home from working in Africa in 2005, I had no idea that Florida had populations of black bears living almost entirely on private cattle ranches and on orange groves in the center of the state. Nor that bears throughout Florida were becoming isolated to smaller and smaller tracts of land, with fewer connections to neighboring bear populations. The beautiful female in this photo was thriving in the pine forests on a cattle ranch in Highlands County. I was introduced to these bears by @ArchboldStation and research by Joseph Guthrie and colleagues at the University of Kentucky. They were using GPS collars to discover how the bears utilized the land; in many cases, they were traveling long distances throughout a network of public and private lands. These movements, combined with the science of Florida Ecological Greenways Network by Tom Hoctor, inspired me to propose the Florida Wildlife Corridor (@FL_WildCorridor) campaign in 2009. Bears and other wide-ranging species in Florida need our help. Most of the lands where they live are threatened by development that in the next 50 years will consume five million acres of wild Florida and most of the missing links in the Florida Wildlife Corridor—if we don't start making serious investments in land conservation. And now new toll roads proposed for this region threaten to intensify the losses (link to map in my bio). The only way wild Florida can withstand the pressures will be to protect enough of the Florida Wildlife Corridor to keep the state's existing green infrastructure intact. Please raise your voice to make sure we invest in green infrastructure and not just pavement. Connect with @carltonward as I photograph the #PathofthePanther for @NatGeo. @InsideNatGeo #Florida #bear #FloridaWild #FloridaWildlifeCorridor #KeepFLWild」6月1日 4時20分