The Conservation Trust works with private landowners on a voluntary basis to help them meet their long term land management and conservation goals. CTF protects natural areas and working lands with permanent conservation easements and through direct acquisition. CTF provides valuable information about land conservation options to landowners and family farmers and ranchers. Many landowners feel pressured to sell their land due to encroaching urban sprawl, rising land prices, and taxes. CTF works with private landowners to help them address their concerns and provide viable land conservation options which allow families to maintain their farm or ranch business and protect the rural and natural character of the land, as well.

Since 1999, CTF has successfully protected approximately 9,100 of rural landscapes through publicly funded land conservation programs and privately donated conservation easements. In cooperation with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection / Office of Greenways and Trails CTF initiated the Camp Blanding to Osceola National Forest Ecological Greenway. This greenway is part of a documented Florida black bear wildlife corridor that connects the Ocala National Forest to the Osceola National Forest Greenway (O2O).

The Conservation Trust for Florida, Inc. (CTF) is a non-profit 501(c) (3) land trust.