Florida's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy updates and integrates 30-years of existing conservation plans into a single state wildlife action plan. This kind of comprehensive effort has never been done before in Florida. The Strategy, developed by many partners represented Florida's universities, businesses, agriculture, forestry and farming industries, private landowners and the public. The Strategy provides a platform for taking actions to proactively conserve all of Florida’s wildlife and the places they live. The Strategy addresses conservation issues, management needs and priorities, and is a stimulus to engage conservation partners to think about their individual and coordinated roles. Florida's State Wildlife Grants Program supports the Strategy’s implementation by providing funds. ***Strategy documents are in PDF format, and you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader 6 to see them. You can get Adobe Acrobat FREE by following this link. Viewers can convert the pdf document to html through Adobe.***
Download the Entire Strategy
Download the complete 540-page strategy (pdf 6.5 mb)
Download Individual Chapters
Cover Page (pdf 206kb)
Title Page (pdf 20kb)
Recommended Citation (pdf 7kb)
Table of Contents (pdf 13kb)
Foreword (pdf 12kb)
Executive Summary (pdf 53kb)
Introduction (pdf 49kb)
Florida’s Approach to Meeting the Eight Required Elements (pdf 109kb)
State of the State (pdf 236kb)
Florida’s Strategic Vision (pdf 157kb) – The state’s highest priorities
Species of Greatest Conservation Need (pdf 285kb)
Habitat Introduction (pdf 671kb) - How to use the habitat subchapters
Habitat subchapters:
· Agriculture (pdf 114kb)
· Annelid Reef (pdf 118kb)
· Aquatic Cave (pdf 114kb)
· Artificial Structure (pdf 159kb)
· Bay Swamp (pdf 170kb)
· Beach/Surf Zone (pdf 169kb)
· Bivalve Reef (pdf 121kb)
· Bottomland Hardwood Forest (pdf 167kb)
· Calcareous Stream (pdf 186kb)
· Canal/Ditch (pdf 144kb)
· Coastal Strand (pdf 141kb)
· Coastal Tidal River or Stream (pdf 148kb)
· Coral Reef (pdf 162kb)
· Cypress Swamp (pdf 152kb)
· Disturbed/Transitional (pdf 160kb)
· Dry Prairie (pdf 118kb)
· Freshwater Marsh and Wet Prairie (pdf 136kb)
· Grassland/Improved Pasture (pdf 123kb)
· Hard Bottom (pdf 175kb )
· Hardwood Hammock Forest (pdf 114kb)
· Hardwood Swamp/Mixed Wetland Forest (pdf 158kb)
· Hydric Hammock (pdf 103kb)
· Industrial/Commercial Pineland (pdf 144kb)
· Inlet (pdf 105kb)
· Large Alluvial Stream (pdf 131kb)
· Mangrove Swamp (pdf 166kb)
· Mixed Hardwood-Pine Forest (pdf 147kb)
· Natural Lake (pdf 178kb)
· Natural Pineland (pdf 169kb)
· Pelagic (pdf 97kb)
· Pine Rockland (pdf 178kb)
· Reservoir/Managed Lake (pdf 128kb)
· Salt Marsh (pdf 113kb)
· Sandhill (pdf 149kb)
· Scrub (pdf 129kb)
· Seepage/Steephead Stream (pdf 199kb)
· Shrub Swamp (pdf 153kb)
· Softwater Stream (pdf 204kb)
· Spring and Spring Run (pdf 202kb)
· Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (pdf 150kb)
· Subtidal Unconsolidated Marine/Estuary Sediments (pdf 93kb)
· Terrestrial Cave (pdf 112kb)
· Tidal Flat (pdf 118kb)
· Tropical Hardwood Hammock (pdf 188kb)
· Urban/Developed (pdf 148kb)
Multiple Habitat Threats and Conservation Actions (pdf 669kb)
Acknowledgments (pdf 31kb)
References/Literature Cited (pdf 60kb)
Glossary of Acronyms (pdf 10kb)
Glossary of Terms (pdf 82kb)
Appendices (pdf 153kb)
· A. Identified Conservation Partners
· B. Conservation Education Objectives in Florida
· C. Stress and Sources of Stress Categories
· D. GIS Data Tables
If you are unable to download these files or would like an electronic copy of the Strategy on CD, please contact the Strategy Coordinator.
Christine Small
Strategy Coordinator
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
620 South Meridian St
Tallahassee, FL32399-1600
Christine.Small@MyFWC.com
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