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Alligator Bayou, a primitive wilderness of swamps, bayous and lakes, teems with alligators, birds, cultural history and the
Cajun joie de vivre for which Louisiana is famous.
There's lots to do at Alligator Bayou, located just 15 minutes southeast of Baton Rouge. Get up-close to gators in our 15-acre ecohabitat, and watch our daring, death-defying gator show. Meet the giant alligator snapping turtles in our 2,800-gallon sculptured freshwater aquarium. Visit the bobcat exhibit to see our magnificent native wildcat.
And while you're here, walk through our Cajun Heritage Museum, a furnished 19th century cypress home with a colorful garden of native plants.
Book a meeting, wedding, or party on our bayou-side pavilion, and laissez les bon temps roulet with music, dancing and delicious catered cuisine.
Enjoy the beauty of primitive Louisiana 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 what will always be 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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HELP SAVE ALLIGATOR BAYOU! |
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You Can Help! Download these flyers and give them to your friends and neighbors - then join us at the festival. You can be part of the solution!
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HELP US SAVE THE SWAMP: As of May 17, 2009, boat tours were 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 to the legal defense fund would be greatly appreciated. Click the Donate Now button below to be redirected to our PayPal account.
We hope you will also consider purchasing our two fundraising items and tell people about them. Everyone will love the jazzy, colorful alligator pins made by Oscar's Originals, and Clay Coleman's beautiful art poster. These make wonderful holiday gifts! Please also consider hosting an event on our pavilion, and bringing your family and friends to see our alligator, snapping turtle and bobcat exhibits.
You can get updated information, contact information for politicians and newspapers to write, and news of upcoming events on 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 30 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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