Joan Berish Quotes

We certainly aren't going to stop all habitat loss, that's a given. Habitat loss will continue as a result of urbanization in Florida. That is something my agency does not control. - Joan Berish

Twenty tortoises is a small population. These [20] tortoises would not protect the survival of gopher tortoises in Florida, but protecting them would preserve the species in Hillsborough County. - Joan Berish

Seventy percent habitat loss is staggering for a slow-growing, long-lived, slow-reproducing species. It is not an animal that bounces back easily. - Joan Berish

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