St. Croix Great Mangrove Cleanup Returns

February 21, 2025

UVI and DPNR will be hosting another annual Great Mangrove Cleanup event on St. Croix Saturday, Feb. 22 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Altona Lagoon.

Since 2018, these events have removed more than 16 tons of marine debris from mangrove forests across the territory. Last year, 29 volunteers helped to remove 1,154 lbs of garbage from this site. But there is still more work to do! If you are free, please consider joining this cleanup to help preserve our mangrove forests. This is also a wonderful opportunity to earn community service hours for your participation in this effort, if you or someone you know is looking for hours! Please register using this link.

There will be two additional mangrove cleanups coming up in March and April for St. John and St. Thomas, respectively. Please check out the attached flyer for more information!

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