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Endangered Species Day: Protect the Endangered Species Act

May 16, 2025 | Action Alert, Habitat Loss and Degradation, River Voices, Wetland Impacts

Right now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service are attempting to pass legislation that would effectively gut the Endangered Species Act’s ability to protect habitats of endangered species by changing the definition of the word...

Our Conservation Lands Are Not For Sale

May 16, 2025 | Action Alert, Habitat Loss and Degradation

Update 5/19/25 – We Did it! Floridians came together once again to save our conservation lands! The applicant has rescinded their proposal for the Guana River Wildlife Management Area. The developers only have to win once – we have to win every time! Thank...

Take Action: Bad Boating Bill; Save Our Wetlands

Apr 8, 2025 | Action Alert, Our River, Wetland Impacts

St. Johns Riverkeeper works to keep you informed about issues that affect OUR river. Here are two “bad bills” that we encourage you to take action on now, and, a follow up from the “Protect Our Parks” issue that we shared previously. Our voices...

Sewage Sludge in the St. Johns

Mar 18, 2025 | Action Alert, Bacteria, Nutrients, Our River, Pollutants, Upper Basin/Headwaters

Sewage sludge, the waste by-product from treating our wastewater, continues to undermine the health of the St. Johns River at its very source. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) permits the cheap disposal of sewage sludge (aka biosolids) on...

Bad Bill Alert: Prevent Plastic Pollution

Mar 13, 2025 | Action Alert, Pollutants

Updated Call to Action Link 4/14/25 Plastic debris can choke and entangle wildlife as well as leach harmful chemicals into our water. Despite the overwhelming volume of plastic pollution in natural areas, the state of Florida has taken power away from local...

Call to Action: Protect Our State Parks

Feb 25, 2025 | Action Alert, Community, Habitat Loss and Degradation

Join Waterkeepers Florida’s Call to Protect Florida State Parks Last summer, thousands of Floridians rallied together to oppose a ridiculous proposal to build hotels, golf courses, and pickleball courts in State Parks across Florida. In response to that outcry,...

Dead Fish in the St. Johns? What You Should Know

Feb 11, 2025 | Action Alert, Habitat Loss and Degradation, Our River

St. Johns RIVERKEEPER (SJRK) is monitoring the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC)’s investigation of several fish kills in the St. Johns River. FWC states that the fish kills of predominantly tilapia (an invasive species) are most likely...

Unpermitted, High-Density Chicken Facility Threatens Our Headwaters

Nov 15, 2024 | Action Alert, Bacteria, Community, Nutrients, Our River, Pollutants

Clean Water Advocates Unite in Indian River County to Protect the Upper Basin of the St. Johns River Clean water advocates united on Thursday over growing concerns regarding an unpermitted high-density chicken facility under construction in the headwaters of the St....

Flooding Risk to the St. Johns River Watershed: Hurricane Milton

Oct 8, 2024 | Action Alert, Community, Middle Basin, Our River, Resilience, River Voices

We asked Dr. Jason Evans, Professor of Environmental Science and Studies at Stetson University, to share his expertise about compound flooding risks from Hurricane Milton along the Florida east coast and into the St. Johns River. Here is his input: As the hurricane...

St. Johns River Flooding Alerts – Take Action

Oct 7, 2024 | Action Alert, Our River, Resilience

There are currently flood advisories for the St. Johns River watershed warning of potentially significant inland flooding due to impending Hurricane Milton. Nearly every county in the St. Johns River watershed is at risk of potential moderate to severe rainfall. Check...

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