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As of May 17, 2009, full tours have been suspended due to the draining of Alligator Bayou. Exhibit tours are still being offered by reservation, at a charge of $15 per person, and lasting about an hour.
This is a catastrophic event for both Alligator Bayou Tours as a business, as well as the ecosystem and the wildlife it sustains. Alligator Bayou Tours is fighting this move, and needs your support.
Donations for the legal defense fund would be greatly appreciated, as would your reservation for our exhibit tours. Click the Donate Now button below to be redirected to our PayPal account.
You can get updated information, addresses to contact, and other pertinent data at the Save Alligator Bayou site on Facebook. Please click the Facebook icon below. Thank you for your support. We need it now more than ever! |
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Update on the Spanish Lake Basin:
Alligators Searching for Water Being Killed
06.11.09 - Frank Bonifay and Jim Ragland, owners of Alligator Bayou Tours and founders of Bluff Swamp Wildlife Refuge, today announced that property owners in the area have called out nuisance hunters to remove alligators migrating out of the drained Spanish Lake Basin. The nuisance hunters have already been forced to kill two displaced alligators.
Bonifay and Ragland have repeatedly warned in media interviews that emptying Alligator Bayou, ordered by Iberville Parish President Mitch Ourso in late March, would inevitably kill fish and spur a large-scale wildlife migration as the devastated ecosystem went into shock. (read full story)
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The Vanishing of a Dream
True conservationists seek help
as their beloved alligators are killed
Wetland areas – and the wildlife that live in them – should have been on the endangered list for the past few centuries. Sadly, conservations have watched helplessly as timber cutters, land developers, and now, ruthless corporations posing as federal mitigation banks wiped out our most ancient and holy heritage: the land and wildlife that awaken us to joy and our roles as stewards of the earth.
A full-throttle environmental battle is now underway in what's left of an ancient cypress-tupelo swamp just southeast of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Politicians and corporate mitigation bank owners banded together in Iberville Parish, west of Baton Rouge, and succeeded in emptying the 13,000-acre Spanish Lake Basin as if it were nothing more than a toilet. (read full story)
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KIDS CAN HELP TOO! |
| Hey kids, you can help! You've got your own petition to sign as well as a great website that talks about Alligator Bayou. |
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| Visit The Website Here! |
| Sign The Petition Here! |
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Cruise with us into the wild beauty of the 17,000-acre Spanish Lake Basin, a primitive wilderness of swamps, bayous and lakes teeming with alligators, birds, cultural history and the Cajun joie de vivre for which Louisiana is famous. Experience the riches of the Cajun culture and others that settled this wetlands paradise 300 years ago.
Located just 15 minutes from Baton Rouge, Alligator Bayou invites you to laugh, learn and let the good times roll during our fun, entertaining eco-swamp tour or your corporate, private or school event on our bayou-side pavilion.
Get up-close to gators in the swamp and in our 15-acre ecohabitat. Thrill to our daring, death-defying gator show and meet the giant alligator snapping turtles in our sculptured freshwater pond. See Louisiana's bobcat and walk into an old-growth forest of giant cypress trees.
During your visit, enjoy the beauty and serenity of nature by spending the night or week in our luxurious, one-of-a-kind Cajun cottages. We have everything you need - and more! Let us help you pass a good time, cher, in one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
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RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Click Here to request a tour.
For information on planning an event, click here.
OR Call 1-888-3SWAMPS (379-2677)
or (225) 677-8297.
Download Our Trifold Brochure
Click Here
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