Molly Duerig
Environment ReporterMolly is an award-winning reporter with a background in video production and investigative journalism, focused on covering environmental issues for Central Florida Public Media. Previously, Molly was an investigative reporter for Spectrum News 13, where she spent 3 years reporting in-depth and daily TV news stories, including continuing coverage of an amusement ride tragedy in Orlando that earned a first-place Sunshine State award from the Society of Professional Journalists' Florida chapter. Molly speaks Spanish, loves to travel and is grateful to have had the chance to report stories from places as distinct as Nebraska, Peru and Puerto Rico. She has a master's degree from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
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Bear Warriors United filed a lawsuit Friday against the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission over bear hunt rules commissioners approved earlier this week. -
The expressway authority’s governing board approved a resolution declaring some 44 acres of Orange County land as necessary for a planned toll road, including part of Eagles Roost. -
The five commissioners present at Wednesday’s meeting all voted to approve rules for a regulated bear hunt, starting with a 23-day hunting season this December. -
Engineers hope the new, autonomous lake monitoring technology they’re developing will help keep Central Florida lakes clean — starting with the home of a historic open-water swim. -
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will take up a final vote Wednesday on proposed rules for a regulated bear hunt. -
The now-finished project will benefit the Indian River Lagoon as well as the St. Johns River basin, state leaders said Monday. -
The Central Florida Expressway Authority could give final approval this week to the plans to take over Eagles Roost, an Orange County park and the site of a recently-reopened wildlife refuge. -
Private collectors looking for invasive panther chameleons to sell were more disturbing to Orange County residents than the lizards themselves, according to new University of Florida research. -
Earlier this week, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sent a letter to Demings and the Orange County Commission threatening removal from office by the governor if they didn't sign. -
Studies show the populations of most North American shorebirds are declining. But the American oystercatcher found along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts is a success story.
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"I'm just concerned for our citizens here in Central Florida and really, across the country," said one Orlando resident at Friday’s meeting led by Democratic lawmakers in Orange County. -
So far in 2025, 477 manatees have died in Florida: more than in either 2024 or 2023, according to state data.
