MAPS

Corridor Geography

Watercolor Map

The vision of the Corridor is depicted beautifully in this watercolor map; original painting by Mike Reagan, designed by Carlton Ward Jr, Tom Hoctor, Richard Hilsenbeck, Mallory Lykes Dimmitt and Joe Guthrie. Explore the maps that follow to gain further insight on the rich natural heritage of our State, especially within these important lands.

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A watercolor map of the state of Florida that shows the outline of the Florida Wildife Corridor in green. The compass rose is a panther head and there is a swallowtail kite and a manatee decorating the image.

The Full Corridor

The Florida Wildlife Corridor covers nearly 17.7 million acres of Florida. 9.6 million acres of the Corridor are existing conserved lands, or 54% of the Corridor. 8.1 million acres of the Corridor are considered as opportunity areas for future conservation, or 46% of the Corridor.

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A map of the Florida Wildlife Corridor that shows the outline of the Corridor in dark green.

Corridor Opportunity Areas

The Corridor is composed of hundreds of parcels of protected land, from Flagler County’s 30 acre Bull Creek Campground, to the 1.5 million acre Everglades National Park. The roughly 10 million acres of Existing Conservation Area illustrated in dark green in the map above includes working lands protected with conservation easements. The light green extent highlights the approximate 8 million acres of unprotected lands that remain. These Corridor Opportunity Areas are high priority lands that connect and support the wild legacy of our parks, preserves, refuges.

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A map of the Florida Wildlife Corridor that shows the 10 million acres of protected land within the corridor and the remaining 8 million acres of land that has the opportunity to be conserved.

State Protection Priorities

There are state and federal programs that identify high priority projects in the state of Florida – Florida Forever and Rural and Family Lands Protection Program. 1.8 million acres of proposed Florida Forever projects are in the Corridor, which accounts for 22% of Corridor opportunity areas. 163,000 acres of proposed Tier 1 Rural and Family Lands Protection Program (RFLPP) projects are in the Corridor. 86% of these 163,000 acres lie within the Corridor.

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A map of the Florida Wildlife Corridor that shows conserved verses opportunity areas in the corridor as well as land that has opportunity to be protected by the Rural and Family Lands and the Florida Forever programs.

Critical Connections

This map depicts the narrow, irreplaceable connections in the Florida Wildlife Corridor with the highest ecological significance and the greatest urgency.

A map of the Florida Wildlife Corridor that shows bottleneck areas. Bottlenecks are areas with the highest ecological significance and the greatest threat of development before 2030.

Mapping Resources

The Florida Ecological Greenways Network provides the scientific foundation for the geographic Florida Wildlife Corridor. This statewide database identifies and prioritizes a functionally connected statewide ecological network of public and private conservation lands. It is the primary data layer used to inform the Florida Forever, Rural and Family Lands Protection Program and other state, federal, and regional land acquisition programs regarding the most important ecological corridors and intact landscapes across the state for protection of Florida’s native wildlife, ecosystem services, and ecological resiliency.

About the Florida Ecological Greenways Network
Florida Conservation Lands Map Viewer
FDOT Wildlife Bridge Crossings
Basemap of Florida
Florida Panther Mortality Data
Florida Natural Resources Inventory Geospatial Open Data
Florida DEP Geospatial Open Data
Florida Ecological Greenways Network 2021: Polygons
Florida Forever Conservation Data Map
Black Bear Mortality Data