The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) announces that it had a successful enrollment phase for a program that will pay landowners who Florida panther supporting habitats.

The initiative is known as the Florida Panther Payment for Ecosystem Services Pilot Program. It rewards private landowners with a payment per acre of land that supports panther conservation in Florida,, according to FWC .

Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are payments to farmers or landowners who have agreed to take certain actions to manage their land or watersheds to provide an ecological service,, according to the International Institute for Environment and Development.

The first year of the panther program will pay out a total of $519,012 to enrolled landowners.

There were 69 applicatio

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