The Nature Conservancy in Florida

Support Florida's Caribbean conservation work today! Florida’s natural systems share much in common with our Caribbean neighbors.

Make a Difference

With your help, we can protect the Caribbean. All gifts to the Caribbean Quest campaign will be leveraged by a generous Florida donor. Join us by giving to the Caribbean Quest today!

The Caribbean Challenge

The Conservancy has joined an initiative created by leading Caribbean nations to build support for conservation. These nations pledge to protect 20 percent of their marine resources by 2020. Learn more about the Caribbean Challenge.

Dig Deeper

Marine Conservation
Building Resilience into Protected Areas

Coral Reefs of the Tropics
The Nature Conservancy's Rescue the Reef program

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View a slideshow of the staghorn coral restoration work in Florida.

If the Caribbean is a state of mind, most Floridians can arrive there quickly by closing our eyes. We escape to pale turquoise waters, soft breezes and soothing sounds of nature.

But recently, the world’s leading marine scientists found that human impact to the Caribbean is among the highest anywhere on Earth. This threatens Florida’s backyard and it got our attention!

Your Help Can Make a Difference

Thanks to a generous gift from a Florida donor, who provided $100,000 as incentive to encourage contributions from others, the Conservancy launched a fundraising effort to support the Caribbean nations’ exciting and important work. Your gift will help provide park rangers, patrol boats, on-the-ground scientists, education programs and more. Funding for the Caribbean Quest will help protect one of nature’s most spectacular displays of beauty, now and into the future.

Florida's Backyard

Florida’s natural systems have much in common with our Caribbean neighbors, and the Conservancy has shared resources and expertise with them for decades.

Please support the Caribbean Quest now, and help strengthen protection of this vulnerable island paradise.

Learn how the Conservancy is facilitating new fishing practices and conservation measures for fishermen in Jamaica and Belize due to declining fish stocks.

Florida Reef Resilience Program

Did you know that the Caribbean begins in the Florida Keys? Learn more about important conservation efforts in the Keys.

Protecting the Caribbean

The Caribbean harbors nearly 8,000 square miles of coral reefs. Discover how the Conservancy is working to protect them.

Download a report on Caribbean conservation results accomplished by The Nature Conservancy.

Contact Us

Contact caribbeanquest@tnc.org for more information.

Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photo © Jonathan Kerr/TNC (Exuma Cays land and sea park, Bahamas); Photo © Halbrindley.com (starfish).