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2024 Volunteer Awards
St. Johns Riverkeeper (SJRK) celebrates its annual Volunteer Award winners each year at our Holiday Mingle event in December. We would like to introduce our honorees and commend their contributions to SJRK and our river! Volunteer of the Year: Pete Miller Pete is what...
Local Placemaking Project Explores Community Connections to the Ribault River
Attend theater productions, free and open to the public, this week on Saturday, November 16 and Monday, November 18 There are two performances this week as part of the University of North Florida’s (UNF) Water Stories: A River Harvest series. Water Stories, a...
Lisa Rinaman Receives Prestigious Terry Backer Award
Above Photo: St. Johns Riverkeeper Lisa Rinaman, Waterkeeper Alliance CEO Marc Yaggi and fellow 2024 Terry Backer Award winner Tofazzal Sohel, Bangladesh’s Khowai River Waterkeeper At the 2024 Waterkeeper Alliance Water and Climate Global Conference, our own...
Flooding Risk to the St. Johns River Watershed: Hurricane Milton
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...
Grass-Roots Effort: Florida Sportsman Feature
St. Johns RIVERKEEPER (SJRK) was featured along with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and our bass angler partners in the July 2024 issue of Florida Sportsman. The article features FWC’s effort to build temporary enclosures in the St....
Bad Bill Alert: SB 1126/HB 1641
St. Johns Riverkeeper is teaming up with Waterkeepers Florida to bring you an action alert for Florida’s waters. Plastic is one of the fastest growing types of pollution in our waterways. Plastic debris can choke and entangle wildlife and leach harmful chemicals into...
Bad Bill: Contact Your Legislators
St. Johns Riverkeeper is teaming up with Waterkeepers Florida to bring you an action alert for Florida’s waters. We need your help to protect access to legal action for Florida’s waterways. The Florida Legislature is trying to strip us – conservation...
2023 State of the River Report: What’s Next?
The 2023 Lower St. Johns River Report (LSJRR) provides a stark reminder of the fragile health of our river and its tributaries, but also documents the powerful combination of responsible regulation, reasonable incentives, education, citizen advocacy and political will...