Hi John,

Deep within the Florida Everglades, the Trump administration and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are still operating a massive detention center.

This cruel, immoral prison threatens lives and is a disaster for one of the country's most precious ecosystems — and the wildlife who call it home.

We just ramped up our legal fight against it, and we need you with us. Please give today to the Future for the Wild Fund.

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The Center and allies won in court to stop this project in Big Cypress National Preserve, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and state of Florida appealed.

The destructive facility has been allowed to continue operating while the appeal plays out.

Our lawsuit moved forward last week when we responded to the feds' appeal — and pressed the case even further.

We're asking the court to consider newly obtained information showing the federal government partnered with Florida to operate this unjust facility in secret.

This operation must be halted immediately. It threatens delicate wetlands, surrounding waters, and dozens of rare and endangered species, from Florida panthers to Florida bonneted bats and beautiful hawks called Everglade snail kites.

It also jeopardizes decades of critically important, hard work on restoration.

Big Cypress was one of the first national preserves in the national park system, established to prevent developments like this. The administration remains dead set on spoiling this gem forever.

For months the detention center has been oozing pollution into Big Cypress' sensitive wetlands and blasting blinding light into the eyes of nocturnal creatures who depend on this special place for their existence.

The Everglades should be home to wildlife — not prisons.

The Center has been a leader in the fight to stop this monstrosity from the beginning, and we won't stop until it's shut down.

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For the wild,

Kierán Suckling
Executive Director
Center for Biological Diversity

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