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FLAMINGO GARDENS Help Us Preserve This Beauty Spot FLAMINGO GARDENS Help Us Preserve This Beauty Spot 2020 WELCOME TO FLAMINGO GARDENS More than nine decades ago, after the devastating Hurricane of 1926, Davie pioneers, Floyd L. and Jane Wray, planted summer oranges in the rich muck soil of reclaimed Everglades land. This simple act founded one of the earliest tourist attractions and botanical gardens in Florida. With the help of a U.S. Department of Agriculture program, the gardens received foreign plants and trees from around the world in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, establishing an impressive collection of botanical specimens. 2 HELP US Preserve This Beauty Spot From the beginning the Wrays welcomed visitors Our visitor, staff, and technological needs have to their garden. Daily tours of the citrus groves and outgrown the current facilities and infrastructure. the botanical gardens were given to the public, Our facilities no longer meet the needs of the extolling the virtues of citrus, tropical plants, and the 150,000 guests that visit Flamingo Gardens each Everglades. The beauty of the area and the need to year as attendance has surpassed current parking preserve that beauty was paramount to the Wrays. and restroom capacities. The Meeting Room is inadequate to accommodate the requests Through the years Flamingo Gardens has from the community and the ravages brought forth the vision of Mr. & Mrs. of time, storms, and Hurricane Irma Wray, preserving this beautiful and have rendered the space unfit for historical place, protecting native plants public use. and wildlife, and educating the public about the significance of the Everglades. Though facing daunting challenges, You are welcome to Flamingo [Gardens] and are invited to spend as much time as you desire, my only request being... that you help us preserve this beauty spot for others. FLOYD L. WRAY, 1939 What started as a modest citrus grove in 1927 is Flamingo Gardens has forged boldly ahead. today a respected botanical collection and wildlife Flamingo Gardens Board of Trustees and staff have sanctuary visited by more than 150,000 guests every taken steps to create a ten-year Master Plan Task year. Flamingo Gardens is a designated Cultural Force to secure the future of the gardens. Near Landmark and the Wrays’ weekend residence is a term plans to implement the Master Plan include museum giving a glimpse of South Florida life in the successfully reaching a $4.2 million fundraising goal 30s and 40s. The Gardens boast some of the largest to design and build a new Welcome Center and a trees of their species in the state and the wildlife new Learning Center. Plans for the Welcome Center sanctuary houses the largest collection of Florida include first class visitor facilities, exhibition space, native birds and animals, most of them permanently gift shop, café and dining, with updated technology, injured or non-releasable. The ecological field trips at and expanded parking to see it to its one-hundred- the gardens are attended by approximately 30,000 year anniversary and beyond. Due to the impacts of students each year and have become a tradition for Hurricane Irma, the critical need for a new Learning generations of South Floridians. Center to replace the closed Meeting Room had to be addressed immediately. The new Learning So, all would be well at the Gardens — were it not Center, which will open in December 2021, will for the fact that decades of wear and tear have include 2,200 sq. ft. of adjustable classroom space taken a toll on the buildings. The Visitor Center is with a catering kitchen, office, and ADA compliant in great disrepair and additional damage caused restrooms to accommodate classes, meetings and by Hurricane Irma has exacerbated the situation. other community functions. 3 FLAMINGO GARDENS Our Vision and Mission VISION CORE VALUES To be the premier Everglades garden sanctuary. Advocacy – We encourage environmental responsibility, conservation, and sustainable MISSION practices through education, personal discovery, Flamingo Gardens mission is to depict, preserve, and transformative experiences. and provide education about the natural and cultural heritage of South Florida and the Stewardship – We will maintain, nurture, and Everglades in our botanical gardens and wildlife protect the legacy of Floyd L. & Jane Wray and sanctuary. history of this land for future generations. CORE MISSION OBJECTIVES Compassion - We believe in the inherent worth, diversity, and dignity of all living things. We value Provide a repository for endangered plant and the lives of all people, plants, and animals that enter wildlife species and a living library of specific taxa our care and vow to treat them humanely and with available for research and education. respect. Inspire an appreciation for the beauty and diversity Excellence - We demand greatness, relevance, and of tropical and subtropical plants from around the merit in all we do and hold ourselves and others world that can be grown in our area. accountable to the highest standards of personal and professional standards. Guide the public in environmentally responsible and aesthetic horticultural practices. Teamwork – We will work together to embrace opportunities and challenges, and encourage Encourage environmental awareness and creativity, innovation, and action, while respecting Everglades preservation to visiting tourists, individual points of view. residents, and school children. 4 With support from existing contributors and the investment of new supporters who are inspired by our vision, Flamingo Gardens is poised to rise to a new level of prominence and effectiveness in South Florida. Together we can preserve this “beauty spot” and assure the continuation of Flamingo Gardens historical, ecological, and educational programming for years to come. 5 THIS HISTORICAL SPOT A Unique and Significant Garden Flamingo Gardens is one of the last natural jungle more recently by the Seminoles. The Gardens serve growths in South Florida and one of the oldest as an important habitat and biological corridor for botanical gardens and attractions in the State. The wildlife and is one of the last remaining stands of property is part of Long Key, a native oak hammock upland hardwood forest in Broward County. which was once part of a series of islands surrounded by Everglades marshes as recently as a century ago. Flamingo Gardens predates Fairchild Tropical Long Key encompasses some of the most significant Botanical Garden and McKee Jungle Gardens and archaeological, historical, and ecological resources is one of the few botanical gardens to focus on in the County. Parts of the hammock at Flamingo the ecological significance of the United Nation’s Gardens remain untouched much as it was when designated World Heritage Everglades habitat. the area was inhabited by the ancient Tequesta and Flamingo Gardens is often called “a hidden gem” and a “valuable cultural asset.” This assessment is easily quantified by several factors that make Flamingo Gardens unique: FLAMINGO FLAMINGO FLAMINGO GARDENS GARDENS GARDENS Is one of the only botanical Holds the distinction of Was for ten years the gardens sited within the having the largest collection national repository for the Everglades boundary. It is (16 in total) of Florida International Heliconia one of the few botanical Champion Trees, the largest Society which resulted in gardens dedicated to tree of its species in Florida an astounding array of preserving Florida native as certified by the Florida heliconia and ginger species plants and animals, while Forestry Service. represented throughout educating the public about the gardens. the Everglades’ ecosystems. 6 I’m passionate about volunteering with the Orchidteers, mounting, caring for and sharing my knowledge and love of orchids. Flamingo Gardens’ commitment to saving endangered native orchids and plant species is an inspiration to me. LUCY LODATO FLAMINGO GARDENS ORCHIDTEER VOLUNTEER 7 THIS ECOLOGICAL SPOT A Biologically Rich Sanctuary The Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary at Flamingo flamingos. The sanctuary houses several Federally or Gardens opened in 1990. The Sanctuary was one State-designated Threatened or Endangered of the first of its kind in South Florida to give species such as the American alligator, residence to permanently injured or non- American snapping turtle, Florida releasable Florida native wildlife. Today burrowing owl, Florida sandhill crane, it has the distinction of being the largest wood stork, bald eagle, and Florida collection of Florida native wildlife in the panther. I have been volunteering at Flamingo Gardens Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary for 18 wonderful years. To take in injured wildlife, rehabilitate them and release them back to the wild, is the best experience in the world. I consider myself lucky to volunteer here. MARGARET FISTER-FALLON FLAMINGO GARDENS ANIMAL CARE VOLUNTEER State, providing a home to more than 400 birds and The 25,000 square foot free-flight Aviary houses one animals representing 90 native species including a of the largest collections of wading birds in America black bear, bobcats, falcons, hawks, otters, owls, and with 250 plus birds representing more than 45 native 8 species. The Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary uses the program is one of the most successful in the nation experiences and insights gained through caring for with 42 otter pups born since 1990 in the sanctuary these birds and animals to educate the public about and released to the wild or to other otter breeding the environment, loss of habitat, and other problems programs. affecting
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