The golf courses at Shadow Wood Country Club and Shadow Wood Preserve have retained their designations as "Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuaries" through the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf Courses, an Audubon International program.
The Antica's tee-to-fairway view of the 17th hole on Mediterra's North Course may just encourage visitors to plan their golf strategy while wandering throughout the single-family model home's 4,965 square feet of living space. Located in Mediterra's Verona neighborhood, the four-bedroom, four-and-one-half-bath custom home built by Harwick Homes offers layered lake, golf and nature preserves – displayed from a 1,245-square-foot covered lanai and picture windows and sliding glass doors.
The National Association of Home Builders has cited Bonita Bay Group as an example of a developer using nature to enhance the lifestyles of its communities in two of its national publications.
A bald eagle whose broken wing was successfully treated at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida’s Wildlife Rehabilitation Center was released into the wild Thursday at Mediterra, the Bonita Bay Group development in which the injured bird was found.
When the ladybugs landed and checked out their new home earlier this month, students at Big Cypress Elementary School in Naples held a welcome-to-the-neighborhood party for the new residents of Paw’s Garden. During May, third graders released the little spotted bugs dressed in bright red wings to join a myriad of native species that are gathering in the new habitat. Recently, approximately 65 students gathered with guests to celebrate the official opening of nature’s newest classroom.
Resource Conservation Systems has partnered with the US Environmental Protection Agency's WaterSense program to help consumers save water and reduce costs on their irrigation utility bill.
Mother Nature is enrolling some of her children at Spring Creek Elementary in Bonita Springs and attendance is climbing, thanks to approximately 200 students who dug in to make a home for several of Southwest Florida’s littlest inhabitants. Last week, 100 students held a housewarming of sorts to mark the official opening of the mini-oasis they researched, designed and built. The Florida panther is the school mascot, making Panther Pond Habitat the perfect name for a celebration of nature.
Resource Conservation Systems has partnered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's WaterSense program to help consumers save water and reduce costs on their irrigation utility bill.
Observers along the banks of Verandah’s waterways saw a familiar sight on April 22, as Verandah residents and employees scoured the banks of the Orange River and the community’s numerous lakes, cleaning up debris in honor of Earth Day. The annual cleanup, now in its fifth year, brought volunteers on Verandah’s kayaks to the shores of the Fort Myers community’s 1.75-mile frontage along the Orange River; other volunteers gathered debris along the banks of the lakes that are woven into the Old Orange and Whispering Oak golf courses.
Veterans Memorial Elementary second and third graders and environmental studies group were joined at the school with employees of Bonita Bay Group’s TwinEagles and Mediterra communities to plant a permanent memory of Earth Day 2008.
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