Rebecca Renner

Jan 7, 2024 | marconews.com | Rebecca Renner

"Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades" By Rebecca Renner c. 2023, Flatiron Books $29.99, 288 pages Nobody will miss it. That thing you want, but shouldn't have? Nobody will even know it's gone, so what if you just took it? There's lots of them and nobody's going to notice that you grabbed just one. There's no harm, right? Unless, as in the new book "Gator Country" by Rebecca Renner, its absence could mean ecological disaster.

Dec 24, 2023 | sierraclub.org | Tiya Miles |Stephen MIller |Stephen Robert Miller |Rebecca Renner |Jason Mark

There is no better way to start a new year than with books that get you thinking about and relating to the world around you in a deeper way. How did the outdoors shape some of America's most accomplished female leaders? As the climate changes, can we plan for a more resilient future while avoiding the mistakes of the past? What can the Everglades teach us about the importance of cultivating balance and equilibrium with the natural world? These three books of nonfiction offer up the possible answers.

Dec 21, 2023 | audiofilemagazine.com | Rebecca Renner

With this audiobook, listeners are immersed in the exotic environment of the Florida Everglades and the bizarre underworld of alligator poaching. John Pirhalla offers a first-rate narration. His facility with accents gives atmosphere to this true-crime work. He varies his tone, pitch, and cadence to good effect, and effectively handles both its hard-boiled police procedural aspects and the author's loving passages about the ecosystem at the center of the story.

Dec 5, 2023 | nationalgeographic.com | Rebecca Renner

On a canal bank lined with palm trees off the Banana River in Satellite Beach, Florida, in October,a 10-foot-long American crocodile basked in the midday sun, its toothy jaws opening as neighbors looked on from their docks. The reptile had become the subject of gossip and local news, because until this year, most residents in the coastal communities east of Orlando had never seen one, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Some were frightened. More were curious.

Nov 29, 2023 | kansascity.com | Rebecca Renner

By most measures, alligators are a conservation success story. Plummeting toward extinction in the 1960s, they now number in the millions throughout Florida. If you live in the Sunshine State and pay any attention to your surroundings, you know that any body of water bigger than a bathtub is home to gators. Although they are not the most cuddly of charismatic megafauna, they are the animal most identified with the state - the Florida Man of Florida critters.