Audubon Chapters in Southwest Florida

Offer field trips and services for the community.  They  protect  plants, animals and their habitats and help manage sanctuary properties.

Corkscrew  Swamp  is  managed by the  National Audubon Society to  maintain  native  plants   and animals  found  there.  Audubon’s Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is voted Florida Best Nature Center.

The sanctuary allows the public to see incredibly magnificent natural habitat, with  cathedral  like  old growth cypress  forest and abundant wildlife.  A 2.25  mile raised boardwalk  and  numerous  trails take  visitors  through  one of the worlds  most  beautiful  11,000 acre parks.

They carry out political campaigns to improve things for wildlife.They urged the  Governor  to  veto  the 'Urban Sprawl' bill. He vetoed SB 1712,  a  huge  political victory for them, improving Florida's  growth management laws and preventing attempts  to  hand  over  Florida's remaining  rural  lands  to  speculators and urban sprawl.

In Southwest Florida they work on

  =Big Cypress Regional Eco- 

    systems provide habitat for 

    keynote species such as the

    Florida Panther and the Wood 

    Stork

  =Everglades Lake Okeechobee

    provide habitat to more plant 

    and animal wildlife species than

    any other place in Florida.

  =Gulf Coast Ecosystems
    provide habitat to wading bird  

    and shorebird colonies, with

    vital nesting and foraging

    areas.

            Cork Screw Swamp home to   

        important Bird populations

   Audubohn  Protects Panthers