Overview
- Florida’s wildlife commission issued a temporary executive order allowing residents and professionals to remove immobilized green iguanas without permits and deliver them to designated drop‑off sites.
- Officials detailed transport rules that require ventilated cloth bags placed in labeled containers, with reception points operating in Marathon, Sunrise, Tequesta, Fort Myers and Lakeland during set hours.
- The National Weather Service maintained freeze alerts after an Arctic air mass and a bomb cyclone drove temperatures near or below freezing across parts of the state.
- Authorities urged the public not to take stunned iguanas into homes or vehicles to warm them and advised gloves and protective clothing because animals can revive suddenly and injure handlers.
- FWC reported that most collected iguanas are being humanely euthanized, with a smaller share transferred to permitted buyers for legal commercial use outside Florida, as residents and contractors report mass collections.