Center for Biological Diversity Senior Attorney Elise Bennett: Inside the Legal Showdown Over Alligator Alcatraz

The Everglades is woven into the fabric of Florida as the state's defining ecological treasure. This week on "Between the Lines with Dara Kam" from State Affairs, Elise Bennett, Senior Attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, joins the show to unpack her organization's legal challenge to the Gov. Ron DeSantis-backed detention center dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." Bennett explains why the Center argues that state and federal agencies violated multiple laws, including the National Environmental Policy Act, in approving and constructing the sprawling facility. She walks listeners through how Alligator Alcatraz effectively "evicted" critically endangered Florida panthers from 2,000 acres of habitat and details the ripple effects on countless other species that call the Everglades home. Visit pro.stateaffairs.com/florida for more.