Overview

The mission of the Florida Master Naturalist Program (FMNP) is to promote awareness, understanding, and respect of Florida's natural world among Florida's citizens and visitors.

This mission is accomplished in part by FMNP instructors, who teach students in the program about Florida's environment using science-based information and interpretive techniques that prepare students to share their knowledge with others.

This mission is also accomplished by FMNP graduates, who share their knowledge with others and foster principles of sustainability, connectivity, and biodiversity to assist others to understand and respect Florida's natural world as a community to which we all belong.

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"For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught." -Baba Dioum

"Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher". William Wordsworth

Martin B. Main, PhD
Program Leader, Florida Master Naturalist Program Associate Professor and Wildlife Ecologist
University of Florida, IFAS
SW Florida Research and Education Center
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

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