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A reference guide to organizations and conservation programs working to protect, rescue, rehabilitate, research, and preserve Florida's native wildlife and wild places, with an emphasis on Florida.
Florida's wildlife depends on people and organizations working every day in the field, in wildlife hospitals, along nesting beaches, and across protected habitat. The resources below are provided so visitors can learn more about their work directly from the organizations themselves.
A volunteer-based organization dedicated to helping sea turtles survive. Its work includes public education, beach and nesting-season activities, turtle walks, volunteer programs, and assistance involving sea turtles along Florida's important Brevard County nesting beaches.
Visit Official WebsiteThe University of Florida Whitney Laboratory's Sea Turtle Hospital provides rehabilitation, research, and education focused on threatened sea turtles in Northeast Florida. Volunteers assist with animal husbandry, treatment support, and transportation of turtles between rescue locations and the hospital.
Visit Official WebsiteA nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting imperiled manatees and their aquatic habitat. Its work includes conservation, education, advocacy, public awareness, habitat protection, and support for efforts that improve the long-term survival of Florida's manatees.
Visit Official WebsiteA nonprofit Friends organization supporting the mission of the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge Complex. The refuge system protects important habitat used by Florida manatees and other native species in the Crystal River and surrounding Gulf Coast ecosystem.
Visit Official WebsiteAn Audubon conservation and rehabilitation center focused on Florida's raptors. The center helps protect and save birds of prey while providing medical treatment, rehabilitation, conservation work, and public education involving eagles, owls, hawks, ospreys, and other raptors.
Visit Official WebsiteA nonprofit wildlife refuge focused on rescuing, raising, rehabilitating, and releasing injured and orphaned Florida native wildlife. The organization also provides education about preserving local wildlife, natural habitat, and Florida ecosystems.
Visit Official WebsiteA Central Florida 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife. Its work includes veterinary services, feeding, animal care, and rehabilitation intended to give native wild animals the opportunity to recover.
Official website link not listed here until independently confirmed.A nonprofit wildlife hospital dedicated to Florida wildlife in need. The hospital provides care and rehabilitation for sick, injured, and orphaned native animals, operates wildlife rescue programs, and offers education and outreach intended to help keep wildlife wild.
Visit Official WebsiteA nonprofit conservation organization dedicated to saving bats and their habitats through conservation, research, education, and public awareness. Lubee works with conservation partners, researchers, and educators locally and globally while maintaining its conservation center in Gainesville.
Visit Official WebsiteA nonprofit land conservation organization protecting natural lands and wildlife habitat across North Florida. Its work includes the Ocala-to-Osceola Wildlife Corridor, a major landscape connecting the Ocala and Osceola National Forests and forming an important part of the larger Florida Wildlife Corridor.
Visit Official WebsiteThe Florida Panther Fund supports continued conservation of the endangered Florida panther. The Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida works with conservation partners and has funded research and other efforts that assist the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's work to understand threats to and conserve Florida panthers.
Visit Official WebsiteA conservation organization in Northeast Florida caring for and managing rare wildlife populations. White Oak participates in recovery work for the critically endangered Florida grasshopper sparrow, including conservation breeding and the release of captive-bred birds into the wild in partnership with state and federal wildlife agencies.
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