Shade from the canopy of mangroves at the Roger Downing Mangrove Boardwalk gave volunteers some reprieve from the hot sun on Sunday morning as they worked to improve the path. …
October 10, 2025
April 19, 2024
Sargassum is wreaking havoc on Caribbean ecosystems
For more than 20 years, Mexican biologist Dr. María del Carmen García Rivas has led a crusade to protect the coral lining the Yucatan Peninsula in the Caribbean Sea. As …
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February 9, 2022
EDITORIAL: The Virgin Islands must save the mangroves
The importance of mangroves and other wetlands has been well known for more than half a century. The delicate ecosystems offer habitat for birds and marine life; they naturally prevent …
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November 3, 2021
Mangrove efforts expand to Prickly Pear
Along the coastline of Prickly Pear Island is a stretch of mangroves that died after retaining too much salt following the hurricanes of 2017. But the area has a chance …
May 18, 2021
Mangrove replanting passes 1,000 goal
Jost Van Dykes Preservation Society Director Susan Zaluski said in February 2020 that the group and its partners hoped to plant 1,000 mangrove seedlings. Now, government is reporting that the …
March 10, 2020
EDITORIAL: Mangrove planting is great, but new laws needed too
Government and non-profit organisations deserve kudos for working together recently to launch a major mangrove restoration programme, but we fear their work will be for naught if comprehensive changes aren’t …
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February 27, 2020
Mangroves on the move: Habitat restoration efforts underway
On the eastern end of Jost Van Dyke, where sunshine beats down on expansive white beaches, is a quiet little inlet. The pool is sheltered from crashing waves by a …
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January 2, 2019
As eco-law delayed, mangroves and wetlands left exposed
Government officials recently threatened to fine a South African businessman who removed a large swath of mangroves and other vegetation from the Paraquita Bay lagoon as part of efforts to …
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April 30, 2018
Study finds that mangroves will grow back
Clive Petrovic was disappointed by what he saw on a recent drive out to West End: the wholesale removal of a large stand of mangroves near Sopers Hole. “My guess …
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April 11, 2018
