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Student’s Paper Helps Endangered Florida Key Deer
Yanae Barroso, a fourth year evening law student at NSU’s Shepard Broad Law Center, wrote her Animal Law Legislation Seminar paper on the highly endangered Key Deer. Barroso is a Florida Keys native and is passionate about helping these animals. 
When her article was published in the Florida Bar Animal Law Committee’s Newsletter, Congressman Joe Garcia (whose district includes the Keys) read it and contacted her with an offer to assist in publicizing her ideas. He helped her find people who were able to take her design and make her posters a reality. After more than a year of work, her life-saving message was posted last week on several billboards in various locations on U.S. 1, the major highway that runs through the Keys.
In addition to these signs and her piece in the newsletter, Barroso’s research has raised awareness about the problems facing the Key Deer through a story by Timothy O’Hara that appeared in the Citizen (the only daily newspaper in the Keys) as well as a recent press release from the Key Deer Refuge Center.