FEGN2026

The Florida Ecological Greenways Network (FEGN) identifies and prioritizes opportunities to protect large, intact landscapes important for conserving Florida’s biodiversity and ecosystem services, and serves as a backbone for biodiversity and ecosystem protection efforts in Florida. An important goal of the FEGN is to protect a functionally connected network of public and private conservation lands from the tip of south Florida to the tip of the Florida panhandle while also potentially providing functional connectivity to conservation lands in Georgia and Alabama. Inclusion in the FEGN means the area is either part of a large landscape-scale “hub”, or an ecological corridor connecting two or more hubs. Hubs indicate core landscapes that are large enough to maintain populations of wide-ranging or fragmentation-sensitive species including black bear or panther and areas that are more likely to support functional ecosystem services. Highest priorities indicate the most significant hubs and corridors in relation to completing a functionally connected statewide ecological network, but all priority levels have conservation value. FEGN Priorities 1, 2, and 3 are the most important for protecting a ecologically functional connected statewide network of public and private conservation lands, and these three priority levels (P1, P2, and P3) are now called the Florida Wildlife Corridor as per the Florida Wildlife Corridor legislation passed and signed into law by the Florida Legislature and Governor and 2021, which makes protection of these wildlife and ecological hubs and corridors a high priority as part of a strategic plan for Florida’s future. 2026 updates include: removal of 2024 developed lands (from CLC v4); promotion of Santa Fe River/Paynes Prairie to Goethe Corridor complex from Priority 4 to Priority 3; promotion of Nassau/St Marys River basin corridor from Priority 4 to Priority 2. For more information https://conservation.dcp.ufl.edu/fegnproject/佛罗里达生态绿道网络（Florida Ecological Greenways Network, FEGN）可识别并优先保护对维系佛罗里达生物多样性与生态系统服务至关重要的大型完整景观，同时作为佛罗里达州生物多样性与生态保护工作的核心支撑框架。该网络的一项重要目标是构建覆盖从南佛罗里达最南端到佛罗里达狭长地带最顶端的公私保护地功能连通网络，同时可潜在连通佐治亚州与阿拉巴马州的保护地。纳入FEGN的区域，要么属于大型景观尺度的“核心斑块（hub）”，要么是连接两个及以上核心斑块的生态廊道。核心斑块指面积足够庞大，可维持广布物种或对生境破碎化敏感的物种（如美洲黑熊、美洲豹）种群，且更易支撑功能性生态系统服务的核心景观区域。最高优先级区域指对构建功能连通的全州性生态网络而言最为关键的核心斑块与廊道，但所有优先级层级均具备保护价值。此前的优先级1、2、3层级是保护具备生态功能连通性的全州公私保护地网络的重中之重，且根据2021年经佛罗里达州议会与州长签署生效的《佛罗里达野生动物走廊法案》，这三个优先级层级（P1、P2、P3）现已被统称为“佛罗里达野生动物走廊”，将此类野生动物与生态核心斑块、廊道的保护列为佛罗里达未来战略规划中的高优先级事项。2026年的更新内容包括：移除2024年版CLC v4中的已开发土地；将圣菲河/佩恩草原至歌德廊道复合体的优先级从4级提升至3级；将拿骚/圣玛丽斯流域廊道的优先级从4级提升至2级。更多信息请访问：https://conservation.dcp.ufl.edu/fegnproject/