Friends Group · Miami, FL
Friends of the Everglades
Big Cypress is written into their mission
59¢ to the workFounded 1969
Stand · Find your defenders
Who’s defending Big Cypress?
5 groups have it in their care
National park in Florida, 729,000 acres, managed by the National Park Service, designated in 1974.
Likely to care
Groups likely to care about Big Cypress
This group is a guess from each group's stated mission and where it works, not a record of work on this fight. Give directly; nothing routes through us.
4 more work nearby but are not tied to Big Cypress on the record
On the ground in Florida
The situation
What’s happening to Big Cypress
The freshwater lifeline of the Everglades and the last stronghold of the Florida panther. Big Cypress was established as a “preserve,” not a park, a legal distinction that left the door open to oil drilling. Seismic testing has already scarred this swamp, and new permits keep coming.
- 1974Established as national preserve
- 2026Park Service proposes widening where off-road vehicles may run to the full preserve boundary, which grew by about 147,000 acres in 1988
Oil exploration permits advancing
Comment window openNPS expands off-road vehicle access at Big Cypress National PreserveCloses December 1, 2026Source: NPCA
Your move
How to stand for Big Cypress
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Threatened Lands MapBuild my lineup around Big Cypress: the leading group here opens it, and the other seats fill from this record.
Big Cypress has defenders. It needs more.
The work is theirs. The backing is yours.