Organizations to Connect With
Brooker Creek Preserve
Brooker Creek is a beautiful preserve that people can visit to experience Florida nature and wildlife at their fullest. It is the largest natural area in Pinellas County. There are beautiful nature hikes and tours, activities and an incredible information center. We are very grateful to Brooker Creek Preserve Education and Outreach Specialist, Victoria Escandell, for her support and guidance as we researched the endangered native Florida wildlife on this site.
To learn more about the preserve, visit the Brooker Creek Preserve website.
To donate or volunteer, connect with Friends of Brooker Creek Preserve.
City of Clearwater
The adopt a park, street or trail program is a beautiful program that the city organizes where you can clean an area at least twice a year. This helps protect the natural and native life. Organizations, families, groups and individuals can do it. Our troop and our sister troop and other volunteers have really enjoyed adopting Bayview Park in Clearwater.
To learn more and get involved visit: City of Clearwater – Adopt a Park, Street or Trail
Keep Pinellas Beautiful
This is a great organization that really makes it easier for the average person to make a big difference for the environment. They organize cleanings, special community projects and education. They helped our troop plant mangroves in our adopted park and provided education about how mangroves help the environment and native wildlife.
To learn more and get involved visit: Keep Pinellas Beautiful
Grow Permaculture
Permaculture is a way of growing food and living life in a sustainable way. The goal is to sustain and actually improve the environment by working with nature. At Grow Permaculture, you can take classes in growing your own food, living with the environment in harmony, and improving your quality of life while helping the planet.
To learn more and get involved visit: Grow Permaculture
Silvi Earth
Silvi is a movement dedicated to reforestation around the world. Our troop was very lucky to collaborate with the founder, Djimo Serodio, on replanting 274 endangered longleaf pines at the beginning of the Silvi movement. The organization has expanded greatly and just last year, helped plant 70,000 trees across Kenya.
Silvi partners with people and organizations to reforest and register and track the growth of newly planted trees on its Silvi App.
To learn more and get involved visit: Silvi Earth
UF|IFAS University of Florida
Through a grant provided to the University of Florida, you can learn about and get involved in reducing microplastics in our environment.
The Florida Microplastic Awareness Project provides educational resources and outreach materials. As a volunteer, you can help collect coastal water samples, filtering them and looking for microplastics. The information collected is put into a Google Maps database.
To learn more about microplastics, volunteer, and take the pledge visit: Florida Sea Grant Extension & Education Program.
