December 6, 2024 OCHOPEE, Fla.—Today two four-year-old female Bengal tigers moved into an upgraded Animal Sanctuary at Wooten’s Everglades Airboat Tours. Ceyla (above) is orange, and Sashana (below) is white, a color rarely seen in the wild. The tigers, cared for by another sanctuary in the USA since birth, were moved to Wooten’s to avoid overpopulation at their former home. …
We’re excited to announce Wooten’s Animal Sanctuary is undergoing its biggest remodeling to date! We’ll be spending more than a quarter of a million dollars over the next few months to improve the public areas and all animal habitats throughout the Sanctuary. The project will be managed by Juan Lara, a designer with 38 years of experience building chickee huts …
Recently at Wooten’s we were proud to host students studying biology at Ave Maria University in Florida.
Wooten’s Everglades Airboat Tours has donated a Grasslands Airboat Tour for 4 guests to the Breaking Par for Junior Achievement Auction Gala and Charity Golf Tournament. The two-day event includes a gala dinner and live silent auction on Saturday, April 25.
EVERGLADES CITY, Fla. – Wooten’s Airboat Tours, an airboat tour company near Everglades City, was recently purchased by the Patel family of Fort Myers. The previous owner, Gene Wooten, inherited the company from his father, Raymond Wooten, in the early 90s. When Raymond started the company in 1953, it was the first Everglades airboat company in Southwest Florida. George Patel …