Breaking down the Florida Wildlife Corridor

This week marks a year since the Florida Wildlife Corridor Act was signed into law.

• The law incentivized the preservation of a wild, green, vascular web stretching from the Everglades to the Okefenokee Swamp, securing access to habitats for wide-ranging and roaming wildlife, including the endangered Florida panther.

A year later: Here's a look at the corridor, by the numbers:

• 18 million acres identified in the corridor
• 9.6 million acres of protected land pre-Wildlife Corridor Act
• 8.1 million acres unprotected
• 36,445 acres protected since the act became law
• 14 land parcels conserved
• 1,300 rivers and streams in and around the corridor
• 75 state parks in the corridor
• 32 state forests in the corridor
• 567 imperiled plants in and around the corridor
• 131 imperiled animals in and around the corridor, including the gopher tortoise, manatee, burrowing owl and swallow-tailed kite