Florida Wildlife Corridor Benefit Wine Tasting
July 13, 6 p.m. Winesmith, 1620 Central Ave, St. Petersburg. $20-$25. 727-826-0791. Event on Facebook.
If someone said you could drink wine and help save the Florida panther and black bear, you’d do it, right? I mean, hell, I’ve seen you people at our events: You were going to drink wine anyway, right? I can see your next question: How does drinking wine save animals, unless the plan is to make the developers too drunk to successfully bribe politicians to change laws that allow destruction of habitat? Good guess (really, really good guess, actually), but no, your measly $25 ticket ($20 if you buy in advance) for tasting 15 wines goes directly to the Florida Wildlife Corridor. What the hell is that? Well, see, when we built I-4 and strip malls and cookie-cutter subdivisions in this grand ol’ state of ours, we fucked up the mating and hunting patterns for a lot of our coincidentally-now-threatened-or-endangered species. The Corridor wants to build wildlife underpasses and do lots of other commonsense things to keep black bear off I-4. And even if you don’t care about the bear, I think we can all agree that I-4’s already far too crowded, so drink up!
This article appears in Jul 7-14, 2016.