Pending non-profit 501c3
Preserving the Florida Keys
Protecting Our Ecosystem
For nearly four decades, the Florida Keys Conservancy has followed its own directives, helping to preserve the geographical area of Monroe County and it’s unique and special outlying keys.
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Our Mission
A Conservancy, by definition, is an organization that works to protect natural resources, such as plants, animals and their surrounding land and water environments. For nearly four decades, the Florida Keys Conservancy has followed its own directives, helping to preserve the geographical area of Monroe County and it’s unique and special outlying keys.
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Joining as strategic partners with other nonprofits with similar objectives, our organization has provided grants, financial support, volunteered labor, royalties from book publications, and often served jointly on other 501c3 director and advisory boards at critical times. When help was needed, we were there.
Youth education and preservation of history and art in the Florida Keys has also been our decree since inception. Some of our valued strategic partners are new relationships, while others have been with us since our 1987 commencement. Inherent to us, the mission statement, from the beginning, has been simple and straightforward: “Save Our Keys”.
Our Strategic Alliances
Through the years as a nonprofit organization, we have formed many friendships and lasting relations with other charitable groups operating in Monroe County and the Florida Keys. All have had the same basic goals and passions as we do.
Our common goals: preserving and protecting what is still disappearing today due to development, population pressures, pollution and other negative influences that continue to diminish our natural habitats, our fauna and flora, and the key’s history and culture.
Florida Keys Conservancy (FKC) has established “Memorandums of Understandings” (M.O.U.s) with many of the following well-known and successful charities throughout the years helping to preserve the paradise we work and live in.
Bonefish and Tarpon Trust
Boy Scouts of America, South Florida Council
BSA National Fishing Task Force
Dolphin Life
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Foundation
Florida Keys Wild Bird Center
Florida Keys Wildlife Society
Friends of the Everglades
Friends of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park
Girl Scouts of Tropical Florida (GSTF)
Community Fund: Hemingway Look-Alike
Society Scholarship Fund
The International Game Fish Association
Key West Art & Historical Society
MANG Foundation
MarineLab Undersea Park
NSU’s Guy Harvey Research Institute
Oceanographic Center
Parrot Heads in Paradise
REEF (Reef Environmental Education)
Reef Relief
Save Our Key Deer
Save the Manatee Club
Singing for Change (SFC)
Tropical Audubon Florida
The Turtle Hospital in Marathon
Our Story
In the mid and late 1980s, there was a newfound effort in the Florida Keys and Monroe County to protect and preserve the local fragile ecosystem. Legendary environmentalists like Jimmy Buffett, Governor Bob Graham, Ian Koblick, Sandy Sprunt, Sam Wampler, Johnny Morris and Guy Harvey were notable examples and inspirations for other conservationists.
In 1987, two of those influenced conservationists were Edward M.Trinder and J.P.”Gator” Wilson. They were not only business partners, but friends, fellow fisherman, divers, avid naturalists, and had a specific desire to help preserve the Florida Keys.
