Friends Group
Florida National Parks Association
A nonprofit partner of Biscayne National Park.
Stand · Find your defenders
Who’s defending Biscayne?
2 groups have it in their care
National park in Florida, 172,971 acres, managed by the National Park Service, designated in 1980.
The defenders
The groups doing the most work here
2 groups are on the record for Biscayne, each tied to it by a source our editors read, in the order they carry the weight. Give directly; nothing routes through us.
On the ground
Advocacy · Washington, DC
National Parks Conservation Association
Sued Interior in 2020 and won the March 2024 ruling ordering the Park Service to propose the regulation for Biscayne’s long-promised marine reserve zone
217 staff + 900 volunteers78¢ to the workFounded 1919
5 more work nearby but are not tied to Biscayne on the record
On the ground in Florida
The situation
What’s happening to Biscayne
A nuclear power plant is leaking radioactive water into a national park, and the federal government just extended its license to 80 years. Turkey Point’s aging cooling canals have been contaminating Biscayne Bay with tritium and driving a hypersaline plume toward the drinking water supply of three million people. Under the most optimistic sea-level projections, the plant will be underwater by 2040, twelve years before its license expires.
- 1980Established as national park
Nuclear plant contaminating Biscayne Bay
Source: WLRN · March 19, 2025
No public comment window is open on Biscayne right now. A call script is ready on the Public Lands Action Network, and the groups above are how the fight gets funded and argued in the meantime.
Your move
How to stand for Biscayne
GiveGive to Florida National Parks Association
Their own site; they take gifts directly. Your dollar never passes through us.
Their site ↗SpeakCall your representativesA ready call script on Biscayne, plus any comment window as it opens.
Public Lands Action NetworkFollowWatch the mapEvery threatened place in the country, tracked, with who stands for each.
Threatened Lands MapBuild my lineup around Biscayne: the leading group here opens it, and the other seats fill from this record.
Biscayne has defenders. It needs more.
The work is theirs. The backing is yours.