The Nature Conservancy's Disney Wilderness Preserve

Just 15 miles away from Mickey's carefully manicured & maintained Magical Kingdoms, sits the Disney Wilderness Preserve. Run by The Nature Conservancy, this 12,000-acre preserve is an innovative model of ecological restoration and one of the largest off-site wetlands mitigation projects ever undertaken in the United States. The Disney Wilderness Preserve protects the headwaters of the Everglades ecosystem and is home to hundreds of wildlife species, many of which are rare, such as bald eagles, Florida scrub-jays, sandhill cranes and gopher tortoises.

A model of ecological restoration its staff is constantly working to restore this particular piece of property (which used to be known as the Walker Ranch) to its original state, which sometimes involve brush clearing & controlled burns in order to stimulate natural plant growth.

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