Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

Five acres is a decent amount of land for a home if you want to keep the neighbors at a decent distance. It turns out that five acres is a rather healthy amount of land to conserve, too, especially when connected to the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary.

County Commissioners voted Tuesday, to authorizing staff to pursue the purchase of a roughly 100-acre former orange grove adjacent to the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary through the county's Conservation 20/20 program.

The 'Super' ghost orchid at Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary was discovered in July 2007, and has been in the spotlight each summer since as it continues to produce many flowers year-after-year.

The South Florida Water Management District plans to conduct a prescribed burn of up to 150 acres in the Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed (CREW) Management Area in Collier County this weekend, Saturday, June 29, and Sunday, June 30.

When Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Florida Wildlife Corridor Act into law in the summer of 2021, the occasion was met with a flurry of glowing headlines and general celebration by conservationists across the state. But the effort to protect the integrity of Florida’s landscape is a race against time. It remains entirely legal to develop land within much of the corridor’s boundaries, even if such development would destroy the landscape-scale connectivity the law is meant to preserve. The corridor, in other words, remains under siege by development. And the state and federal governments have not been too eager to stop it.

Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is slowly drying up due to development and flood control projects that have been redirecting the water flow that is the lifeblood of Audubon Florida's popular environmental attraction in the Western Everglades east of Naples.

Wood Storks are one of Florida’s most iconic wading birds. After downgrading the birds’ protection status from “endangered” to “threatened” in 2014, now federal officials are considering de-listing the species altogether.We hear from Shawn Clem, Ph.D., Conservation Director at the National Audubon Society’s Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, which is home to the historically most significant rookery of wood storks in North America.

Audubon Florida’s Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is an attraction in western Everglades by Naples. upcoming months feature some of the best bird-watching and wildlife experiences

The world-famous ghost orchid is blooming at Audubon Florida’s Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. Endangered Species Act protections for the family of flowers delayed

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, a landmark piece of legislation that formalized the United States’ commitment to the conservation of fish, plants, and wildlife and the places they call home.