What effect does the power plant have on the American crocodile that lives in the canals?
Cooling canals have provided a safe haven for the American crocodile, which recently was down-listed from endangered to threatened. In a biological opinion issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on May 5, 2006, the increase in the American crocodile population in South Florida over the last 25 years has been attributed to FPL’s management activities in the cooling canals.
