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A controversial vote is coming up next Tuesday before the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners on whether to approve a new lease to build a water theme park right next to Zoo Miami, abutting land conservationists say is a critically important biodiversity hotspot.

A message scribbled on a sandwich board more than 50 years ago, during a march to commemorate the first-ever Earth Day, spearheaded Karn Stiegelmeier’s activism career. “There’s something in the air that shouldn’t be there,”...