Although it took Mother Nature centuries to create the beauty of what is Sanibel Island, it has been the effort of a group of people to help preserve her work over the course of the last 40 years.
The Committee of the Islands has been a driving force in preserving nature and conservation of Sanibel Island, but it has not been smooth road in doing so, as the group will celebrate its 40 year anniversary this coming January.
With the island being marked as a financially prosperous target by developers back in the 1970s, the residents of Sanibel Island were not ready to give into the big profits of industrializing their little slice of heaven by paving over the trees, wildlife and other natural habitat which was growing here.
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