As Florida focuses on protecting 18 million acres of sensitive land in the Florida Wildlife Corridor, a portion of the state approved by the Florida Legislature in July 2021, a new law to allocate $300 million within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for land conservation went into effect this month.
It’s the first allocation of funds for land conservation since the program came to be in the early 2000s, said Dean Saunders, a Florida expert in land conservation and a land broker. As he sees it, in recent years, residential and commercial developments have threatened the ecosystem as available space to build shrinks and the population continues to grow.
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