Everglades Foundation

The Everglades Foundation
Founded1993
Type501(c)(3) not-for-profit
FocusEnvironmentalism
Location
Area served
Florida Everglades
MethodScience-based research, programs, education, advocacy, communications
Key people
Chairman, Carlos de la Cruz Jr.
CEO, Eric Eikenberg
Websitewww.evergladesfoundation.org
Satellite image from NASA showing the Everglades ecoregion as delineated by the World Wide Fund for Nature. The region south of the yellow line includes Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades, the Big Cypress Swamp, the Atlantic Coastal Ridge, the estuarine mangroves of the Ten Thousand Islands, and Florida Bay.

The Everglades Foundation was formed by a group of outdoor enthusiasts, environmentalists and residents of Florida who were concerned over the decline of the Everglades and the resulting damage in the nearby natural and protected areas such as Florida Bay. The original founding members, the late George Barley, a wealthy Orlando developer, and billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II, spearheaded the organization's growth, and shared the same concern over the steady decline of the environmental balance in this unique and delicate ecosystem due to poor water management and pollution.[1]

The Foundation was created and founded in 1993, and is currently operated as a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization. This organization is supported by noteworthy performers, professional athletes, and business persons, including Jimmy Buffett and golfer Jack Nicklaus.[2]

  1. ^ http://www.newsweek.com/id/154161/page/1 [dead link]
  2. ^ "Everglades Foundation". nndb.com. Retrieved 5 April 2017.