POACH · Leonida wildlife agency
Wild Leonida,
by the rules.
From the Grassrivers to the woods of Mount Kalaga, POACH sets the hunting and fishing seasons, issues the licenses and sends a trapper when an alligator moves in. Most of the wildlife was here first.
Contact
Get in touch with POACH
Offices open Monday to Friday; the Grassrivers Field Station every day.
Hurricane season
Hurricane season runs through November 30. Know your evacuation zone, keep a seven-day kit ready and sign up for LeoAlert to get official warnings by text.
01Wildlife services
Licenses, gators and the rules.
The most requested POACH services, for hunters, anglers and anyone who just found something with scales in the garage.
- Hunting & fishing licensesAnnual, short-term and lifetime licenses for freshwater, saltwater and every hunting season.Start online
- Nuisance alligatorsAn alligator in your pool, garage or driveway? Keep your distance and call the hotline: a licensed trapper comes to you.Get a trapper
- 24/7Report a wildlife violationPoaching, night hunting with lights, feeding or harassing alligators: tell POACH, day or night, without giving your name.How to report
- Iguanas, pythons and exotic petsWhat you may remove yourself, what to report, and where to surrender an exotic pet you can no longer keep, with no fine.See the rules
- OnlineAlligator harvest lotteryEnter the spring draw of alligator harvest permits in a zone of the Grassrivers. Free, one entry per season.Enter the draw
- OnlineInvasive species removal eventsJoin a python roundup in the Grassrivers, a lionfish derby in the Keys or an iguana removal day, with your team.See the events
- 7,400nuisance alligator calls answered this year
- 380wildlife officers on land and water
- 912,000hunting and fishing licenses a year
02On the map
Where to find us.
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Open the State mapCartography: Yanis & gtadb.org, CC BY 4.0
03News
Latest news
Deer season opens November 14 around Mount Kalaga.
Licenses and deer permits work at once on your phone. Blaze orange for everyone in the woods, hunters or not.
Seasons & bag limitsCold snap ahead: iguanas may drop from trees.
A cold-stunned iguana is not dead and not a pet. Leave it where it fell: it warms up and walks away.
Iguanas, pythons and exotic pets
