It is bewildering that a county led by a self-proclaimed environmental champion, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, is overseeing a pressure campaign to marginalize and, apparently, ultimately replace the nonprofit that environmental legend Marjory Stoneman Douglas created in Crandon Park.
For forty years, I have watched Miami-Dade’s children fall in love with the natural world there. Every day, students wade through the seagrass beds, cradle sea urchins, marvel at the flick of a seahorse’s tail and discover what Marjory called “the miracle of the world around us.”
The Marjory Stoneman Douglas Biscayne Nature Center is not a park amenity. It is the living embodiment of Marjory’s final public project — founded to ensure Miami-Dade’s children would grow up knowing, loving and defending Biscayne Bay and our natural resources…