As rare sawfish mysteriously die in the Florida Keys, an unprecedented rescue begins

Over the past three years, Florida officials have been forced to make extraordinary decisions to save imperiled wildlife. In 2021, wildlife experts approved a first-ever feeding trial for starving manatees. Biologists fed sea cows lettuce because their main food source, seagrass, was in short supply from human-caused pollution. Last year, facing perhaps the most widespread coral bleaching crisis in Florida history, state and federal scientists raced to rescue corals from scorching offshore ocean temperatures. The mass evacuation of coral was the first of its kind. The latest decision — to...