NPCA's Sun Coast team is a leader in advancing the restoration of America's Everglades and Everglades National Park, working to improve natural flow and water quality, remove levees, fill canals, and reduce agricultural and urban runoff. NPCA helps address issues and harms to Florida Bay by engaging both Everglades National Park staff and local stakeholders to identify problems and solutions. We advocate for park funding with members of Congress and other elected officials and engage citizens to experience, enjoy and protect Florida Bay for current and future generations.
NPCA works to protect and restore the Florida's incredible yet severely imperiled coral reefs and marine wildlife. Coral reefs are an invaluable component of the entire marine ecosystem, protect shorelines from erosion, and support many local economies in the Sun Coast Region that are dependent on tourism and fisheries. We help counter growing threats to coral such as climate change, deteriorating water quality, disease, harmful human activities, and pollution from large-scale agricultural runoff.
NPCA works to expand access to and awareness of national parks in gateway communities and among urban and veteran communities, especially in the city of Homestead and metropolis of Miami. We engage and empower diverse communities in Miami-Dade County to inspire effective advocacy for our treasured parks through Civic Voice Lessons. This project introduces young urban citizens, often from historically underrepresented and underserved populations, to our local marine environment as a recreational experience, an economic driver for the region, an important resource for this vast ecosystem and a natural protector from powerful storms. Youth participate in civic dialogue training that focuses on addressing a specific marine or park issue and results in participants holding informed discussions on this issue with fellow citizens, political leaders and scientists.
Since 1919, the nonpartisan National Parks Conservation Association has been the leading voice in safeguarding our national parks. From our national headquarters in Washington, D.C., and 27 locations nationwide, we call on our program and policy experts, committed volunteers, staff lobbyists, community organizers and communications specialists to inform and inspire the public and to influence decision makers to ensure that our national parks are well protected. NPCA is the lead nonprofit park advocacy group working at the local, regional and national level to protect and preserve our greatest natural, cultural and historic treasures for future generations. In Florida, we're fighting to preserve the fish and coral reefs in Biscayne National Park, protecting nesting bird habitat in Dry Tortugas National Park, restoring fresh water flow to Everglades National Park and working to better connect youth and partner organizations to our parks.
Organization name
National Parks Conservation Association
Mission Category
Environment
Program Site Locations
All of Miami-Dade County, Everglades, Homestead, Key Biscayne
Annual Operating Budget
More than $10,000,000
Primary Population Served
General Population, Native American/American Indian/ Alaska Native/Indigenous, Veterans
Address
4429 Hollywood Blvd. # 814990