Help Conservation Trust for Florida, Inc.

Conservation Trust for Florida, Inc.

Micanopy, Florida

Cause Description:
The Conservation Trust for Florida, Inc. is a 501(c)(3)non-profit land trust that was founded in 1999 by a group of professional conservationists to address the need to protect rural land and natural areas in Florida. David Carr, formerly the Executive Director of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation, was the founding Executive Director and is a member of the Board of Directors. Dr. Gary Meffe, Editor-in-Chief of the international scientific journal Conservation Biology, served as the founding Facilitator and as Executive Director from 2002 until 2003. Busy Shires Byerly, the current Executive Director, has worked on projects with leading conservation organizations such as The Wildlands Project, Defenders of Wildlife, and the National Gap Analysis Program. CTF has two programs to carryout our land conservation and stewardship goals: 1) The Farmlands Project addresses the conversion of working rural lands to urban uses and is primarily an educational project to inform landowners about land conservation options with the goal of protecting land with conservation easements; and 2) The Greenways Program addresses the protection of natural areas that provide landscape connections. CTF has successfully protected approximately 2,700 acres of rural landscapes through publicly funded land conservation programs and conservation easements. CTF has also helped begin the acquisition of a 153,000-acre project, the Camp Blanding to Osceola National Forest Ecological Greenway.

Type: Community Outreach
Listed on iGive since: October 2005
iGive members supporting: 4

Website: www.conserveflorida.org

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