Save the Florida Panther Day, is a day — recognized by Florida law — to show some love for our state's iconic big cat. Because Florida isn’t just our home — it’s theirs, too!
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We are thrilled to cordially invite you to the Sunshine State Soirée, promising an unforgettable journey from the bustling streets of metropolitan Orlando to the untamed beauty of wild Florida. Leave the city behind without actually leaving it.
Join us on Friday, April 5th, and trade the concrete jungle for sprawling swamps and buzzing wildlife. It’s an evening to celebrate what we all love — the real Florida.
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With the new year often comes new goals & new resolutions (whether they’re self-motivated or culturally conditioned, we don’t judge). For many, that involves new hobbies — maybe even some extra exercise here and there.
Check out Erin’s take on it all! You might just find yourself running on the path to protecting wild Florida.
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We are honored to be featured in the December 2023 - January 2024 edition of Heartland Living, the only regional lifestyle community magazine in the Florida Heartland.
Take a deep dive into “Protect Our Paradise,” a six-episode docuseries that explores the wild beauty of Florida and the efforts being taken to protect it. Stream it now on the Discover Florida app.
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Conservation Florida is officially a 2023 Walt Disney World Grant Recipient!
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Conservation Florida, the boots-on-the-ground land conservation trust of Florida, is delighted to announce that it has successfully been reaccredited by the prestigious Land Trust Alliance.
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Whether you walked, ran, or danced across that finish line, one thing’s for certain: YOU helped save our wild Florida.
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As part of a community of land protection professionals, Conservation Florida cooperates to achieve statewide land conservation goals. Acting together, we can save land on a scale that is big enough to protect Florida's natural and working lands — lands on which we all depend.
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Justin Bright is raising money and awareness for Conservation Florida by traveling across the state on a skateboard. His journey provides a glimpse of the obstacles and dangers faced by Florida’s wildlife as they search for wild lands that are connected and protected.
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I want to contribute to the diversification of people working in the environmental sector by fostering an intimate connection between young minorities and the environment. I hope to impact this field by contributing to the education of underserved children in urban areas who have limited access to wild places and show them the benefits of nature and the importance of their responsibility to protect it for the next generation.
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“Ranches in Florida provide some of the last, vast green space in our state. They’re providing critical habitat to our native species, and from the swamps to the sandhills, ranches in Florida are key to supporting our unique biodiversity and an array of habitats on a landscape-scale,” writes our Executive Director & CEO Traci Deen.
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Conservation isn’t a magic box. It doesn’t simply happen … It takes teamwork, an effort that’s larger than one stakeholder group … It’s ranchers, it’s sportsmen, it’s the environmentally conscious … It requires that we all play the role of the steward, and that we push for the right things for these places we love.
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Conservation is not a very popular topic among my peers. As a teenager, and as a rancher, I think it should be. … My livestock judging team has qualified for state this year! I have raised and shown my family’s own calves since I was eight years old. My younger brother, Gabe, also likes to raise and show steers at the annual county fair.
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The late spring and warm summer months provide towering clouds and thunderstorms making for dramatic skies above the grassy dry prairie dotted with hammocks.
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As we quickly gained altitude, the trees below multiplied into forests, houses sprouted into neighborhoods, and the roads became snaking masses cutting through the land.
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As our nation’s population continues to grow, more forests and marshlands are destroyed, and more species have become endangered. A refuge is a protected place where wild creatures can live undisturbed by humans.
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To my surprise, the tortoises were face-to-face, ramming their shells into each other. The sky was turning a dark gray, and I heard thunder in the distance as these two tortoises battled it out…
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About halfway up the hill, I stopped, because I saw something large and black on the trail. The animal had its head deep in the palmetto, and all I could see was a black shape…
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Salamanders & Wakulla Springs: frosted flatwoods salamanders have become a poster child for proper forestry management and a healthy longleaf ecosystem. Could they be the canary in the coal mine?
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Highly social yet quarrelsome, they’re like the stars of an avian soap opera. And they’re as brash and curious as precocious kids.
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