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 ...

Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is hosting its holiday market on Dec. 7, with the gift shop featuring nature-inspired gifts and ...

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.

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 ...