Great News! You can help the Gopher Tortoise by purchasing a specialty tag for your car that looks like the photo above!
As noted on The Gopher Tortoise Council's website:
Ride in style and support conservation with the new gopher tortoise license plate! We have officially reached 3,000 pre-sale voucher sign ups for the new Protect the Gopher Tortoise license plate!
The gopher tortoise plate, with artwork by Matt Patterson, will soon be available at your local Tax Collector’s Office. If you hold a valid Florida Driver’s License or have a Florida-registered vehicle, you are eligible to purchase plates for your car, truck, trailer and RV!
Now that we have reached this milestone, we have submitted the pre-sale data to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) for production. Please be aware that the manufacturing process may take approximately 6 months before your specialty plates will be available at your local DMV.
Once the license plates are ready, we will post and send out information with instructions on how to exchange your current plate for your newly approved Protect the Gopher Tortoise specialty license plate.
(The annual use fees from the sale of the plate will be distributed to Wildlands Conservation to fund gopher tortoise and commensal species research, education, and conservation, as well as upland habitat protection, restoration, and management in Florida to benefit the gopher tortoise and other upland species. Up to 10 percent of the funds received by Wildlands Conservation may be used for marketing of the plate and costs directly associated with the administration of the gopher tortoise license plate program. Wildlands Conservation will use and distribute the funds to eligible Florida-based scientific, conservation, and educational organizations for gopher tortoise, commensal species, and upland habitat research, conservation, and management through a grants program.) If you are interested in being notified when plates are available for purchase, please click here https://form.123formbuilder.com/.../gt-plate-email... We would like to thank each and every one of you that has waited patiently during this pre-sale period, signed up for a voucher or helped spread the word about this initiative. It would not have been possible without you! Stay tuned for more information.
