It seems Keith Laakkonen was always meant to be the director of a major Southwest Florida preserve. The biologist and former director of the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Laakkonen ...

More than 100 years ago, people came together to save the wading bird rookery in Collier County’s Corkscrew Swamp from slaughter by poachers hellbent on selling the birds’ feathers for personal gain.

NAPLES, Fla. — Southeastern Sunflower fields, a rare ghost orchid and even rarer panther sightings — that’s what’s going on at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Naples. It’s two-and-a-half miles of ...

Wood storks filled the skies and cypress tree canopies of Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary for millennia, breeding and feeding their young in one of the largest bald cypress forests on the planet. "A 1914 ...

Ever wonder what the Naples area looked like 500 years ago? Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary offers that kind of experience, and the Audubon facility is hosting various guided walks between now and the end ...