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The gift shop at the new Busch Wildlife Sanctuary in Jupiter, Florida on December 19, 2023. Maya Washburn covers northern Palm Beach County for The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA TODAY Florida ...
Florida Keys Eco-Discovery Center: Key West: Monroe: South: Native plants and animals of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, both on land and underwater Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center: Tavernier: Monroe: South: website, wild bird rehabilitation center, boardwalk trail past aviaries of rescued but unreleasable birds
Flamingo Gardens is a 60-acre (24 ha) botanical garden and wildlife sanctuary, located just west of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and north of Miami at 3750 South Flamingo Road, Davie, Florida, United States. It is open to the public for a fee.
The Key West National Wildlife Refuge is a 189,497 acre (766.867 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located in Monroe County, Florida, between Key West, Florida and the Dry Tortugas. Only 2,019 acres (8.171 km 2 ) of land are above sea level, on several keys within the refuge.
Flamingo at the Key West Butterfly and Nature Conservatory. The Key West Butterfly and Nature Conservatory located at 1316 Duval Street, Key West, Florida, United States is a butterfly park that houses from 50 to 60 different species of live butterflies from around the world in a climate-controlled, glass-enclosed habitat.
Wildlife includes the American oystercatcher, bald eagle and piping plover. The park is unique in that a lighthouse, built in 1887, is on the southern end of the key in Pinellas County, Florida. Three Rooker Island, south of Anclote and part of the preserve, remains an important Gulf Coast beach-nesting bird sanctuary.
Sand Key is a coral reef located within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. It lies to the southwest of Key West within the Key West National Wildlife Refuge and Hawk Channel. This reef is within a Sanctuary Preservation Area (SPA). The Sand Key Light was built on the key. The reef lies to the south of the light.
The northernmost key is the largest and has a strip of sandy beach free of mangrove. In the past it was known as "Entrance Key". It surrounds the lagoon in the north and east. Adjoining in the south are smaller keys such as Gull Keys, Mooney Harbor Key, and finally about four unnamed keys in the southwest corner of the group.