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List of protected areas of Florida

The protected areas of Florida include 158 Wildlife Management Areas and Environmental Areas. While many of these are stand-alone properties, they also include National Wildlife Refuges, Florida State Forests, and Aquatic Preserves.

Wildlife management area
There are five regions for the wildlife management areas. Northwest {{div col|colwidth=20em|content= • Apalachee Wildlife Management AreaApalachicola River Wildlife and Environmental Area • Apalachicola Quail Enhancement Area • Apalachicola Bradwell Unit • Apalachicola Bradwell Unit PSGHA • Apalachicola RiverAucilla Wildlife Management Area spans over (30.188° N, -83.9782° W). • Blackwater River State Forest with the Blackwater Wildlife Management Area, Blackwater Carr Unit, and the Blackwater Hutton Unit Wildlife Management Area. • Box R Wildlife Management Area (BRWMA)): in with an additional added in 2020 for a total of in Gulf and Franklin counties, Florida, along the Apalachicola and Jackson rivers. • Box R PSGHA • Choctawhatchee River Wildlife Management Area. • Econfina Creek Wildlife Management Area • Econfina Creek Fitzhugh Carter Area: unit of Econfina Creek Wildlife Management Area of Econfina Creek Wildlife Management Area. • Atlantic Ridge Preserve State Park: in Martin County. Birding wildlife includes Herons, egrets, Florida sandhill cranes, wood storks, Red-shouldered hawk, and Bald eagles. • Big Cypress National Preserve: The first national preserve in the United States, at , the preserve is home to the Florida bonneted bat (Eumops floridanus), the Mangrove or Big cypress fox squirrel (Sciurus niger avicennia), and the Florida Pineland or Everglades crabgrass. The preserve is managed as the Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area. • C 23-24 Reservoir Public Small Game Hunting Area (PSGHA): • Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed (CREW) Wildlife Management Area: More than in Lee and Collier counties. The CREW Wildlife and Environmental Area covers more than of the + of the land acquisition project. • Dinner Island Wildlife Management Area: in Hendry County. Wildlife includes winter sparrows (Spizelloides arborea), Loggerhead Shrikes (Lanius ludovicianus), Short-tailed Hawk (Buteo brachyurus), Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinica), and Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris), Burrowing Owls, Sandhill Cranes, Wild turkeys, Crested Caracara, sometimes Snail Kites. Both the Black-bellied and Fulvous whistling ducks, as well as Wood storks and Roseate spoonbills. • DuPuis Management Area • DuPuis Dove Field PSGHA • J.W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area: in Palm Beach County. Connected to the DuPuis Management Area) • Everglades • Fisheating Creek Wildlife Management Area: of protected area, predominantly along Fisheating Creek (26.9209° N, -81.4073° W) in Glades County. Fort Center is within the WMA. • Holey Land Wildlife Management Area: Is of protected area. The WMA is considered part of the Everglades complex of Wildlife Management Areas within the South Florida Water Management District. Although separate, the WMA is also listed as the Holey Land/Rotenberger Wildlife Management Areas in Palm Beach and Broward counties. The WMA borders the Rotenberger Wildlife Management Area to the west and the Stormwater Treatment Area (STA) 3 and 4 Waterfowl Public Small Game Hunting Area to the east. • Hungryland Wildlife Management Area: Officially the John C. and Mariana Jones/Hungryland Wildlife and Environmental Area. in Palm Beach and Martin counties. The WMA was renamed in honor of Johnny and Marianna Jones, who were instrumental in the creation of this environmental area and over three million acres of public lands. • Okaloacoochee Slough Wildlife Management Area: in Hendry and Collier managed jointly by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Florida Forest Service, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Spirit-of-the-Wild Wildlife Management Area borders the northwest section of the WMA, separated by Keri Road. • Picayune Strand Wildlife Management Area: in Collier County. • Rocky Glades Wildlife Management Area (PSGHA} • Rotenberger Wildlife Management Area • Southern Glades Wildlife Management Area • Spirit-of-the-Wild Wildlife Management Area • STA 1 West Wildlife Management Area (PSGHA) • STA 3-4 PSGHA • STA 5 PSGHA }} Wildlife and Environmental AreaJohn C. and Mariana Jones/Hungryland Wildlife and Environmental Area • Lake Wales Ridge Wildlife and Environmental Area. Includes the Royce Unit, trails, and PSGHA. ==National wildlife refuges==
Aquatic preserves
There are 43 areas of submerged lands, listed as designated preserves, totalling over 2.9 million acres. ==See also==
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