Community Profile

Program Year

2026

Status

Active | In Progress

Last Certification Date

10/29/2025

Certified Since

4/4/2019

Habitat Locations

By City - Orlando

Registered On

4/19/2018

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City of Orlando

Orlando, FL

City or Town

Population: 277000

Summary

Orlando is one of the most visited destinations in the world. With over 68,000,000 visitors a year, we have a unique opportunity to engage our community about wildlife and urban habitat. Mayor Buddy Dyer's Sustainability Initiative, Green Works, is helping Orlando become one of the most environmentally-friendly, economically and socially vibrant communities in the nation. One of the seven focus areas in Green Works is livability, which involves improving the quality of life for our community and creating more vibrant, natural spaces for our residents. The promotion of wildlife and urban wildlife habitats helps create these spaces that everyone can enjoy. Our commitment to becoming a certified NWF Community Wildlife Habitat combined with our pledge to help monarch butterfly populations with the Mayor's Monarch pledge, will once again reaffirm our commitment to becoming one of the most environmentally-friendly communities in the nation.

My Certified Wildlife Habitats

17 Habitats

My Annual Activity Points

0

Total Re-Certification Points

21 / 30

Community Spotlight

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UF/IFAS Extension Orange County Demonstration Gar

The extension office is home to 4 acres of demonstration gardens that showcase Florida Friendly Landscaping techniques and how to attract native plants and animals. They are free to visit and maintained by dedicated Master Gardener volunteers.

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UF/IFAS Extension Orange County Demonstration Gar

A team of Master Gardeners from the UF/IFAS Extension Orange County office maintain a beautiful set of demonstration plots in the Lake Druid Community Garden. These plots feature pollinator plants and Florida Friendly vegetable gardening techniques.

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Water Reclamation Outdoor Education Gardens

The City's Water Reclamation facility created a 600 sq ft Outdoor Education Garden to demonstrate the benefit of reclaimed water from treatment plants. Visitors can tour the garden to learn the benefits of pollinators, wildlife and water conservation

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Millennia Gardens Elementary

Millennia Gardens has two wonderful pollinator gardens on site. The first is a memorial garden for victims of the Pulse massacre, and the second is a quarter-acre wildlife sanctuary with a variety of native plants, a frog pond and osprey nesting.

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Keep Orlando Beautiful

Keep Orlando Beautiful is a non-profit and official affiliate of Keep America Beautiful. This organization works on education programming, recycling bin implementation, as well as numerous clean-up and beautification events around Orlando.

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GreenUp Orlando

GreenUp Orlando is a environmentally focused volunteer program. It encourages citizens and groups to plant trees and shrubs, beautify their neighborhoods, and promote the benefits of volunteer efforts in partnership with the City.

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Monarch Migrating Mural Downtown

Finished in April 2018, the Monarch Migrating Mural showcases monarch butterflies among their host plant, milkweed. Along with another mural at Full Sail University, this was used to announce The Nature Conservancy's "The Monarch Initiative".

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