There are 160 acres of mangroves in Dania Beach between the airport and Port Everglades, and a developer wants to put up a warehouse on a roughly five-acre parcel in the middle of the mangroves. Dr. Missy Williams is a biologist who runs the Dania Beach Monkey Sanctuary and Vervet Project.
“Once the mangroves are removed, you can’t replicate this anywhere else. So we are concerned that a developer wants to carve out a five-acre parcel of mangrove just for a warehouse,” she said.
Broward County Commissioners will vote on whether or not to remove that parcel from the Environmentally Sensitive Land Map. In a county filing, the owner said, “The existing wetland has been degraded, and the habitat is rapidly diminishing because of the invasion of exotic vegetation and the deterioration caused by the industrial development in the surrounding area.”…