Save The FAU Preserve

           This preserve not only benefits the animals that call it home, but it also benefits the University and its students in more ways than not. It provides research opportunities for Ecology, Environmental, Biological, Chemistry, Geosience, and many other majors that students are pursuing. The Undergraduate Research Journal also has papers published from work conducted within this very preserve.The abundance of life and qu...

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The reasons why, in addition to the protection of state and federally listed species, further development should not occur on the FAU preserve are:

1.1. The preserve contributes greatly to the effectiveness of FAU as a major research facility. It functions as a research laboratory, an outdoor classroom, and an area for the community to experience wildlife. i.In 2010, over 400 students, faculty, ...

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Animals might lose habitat as FAU's preserve keeps shrinking

By SERGIO N. CANDIDO

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Cramped between Boca Raton airport and a parking lot on the north end of the campus sits a patch of land that seems almost abandoned—Florida Atlantic University's natural preserve and home of the dwindling burrowing owl and inspiration for the school's mascot.