St. Croix's northwest coast © Jonathan Kerr and heliconia and humming bird © Gina GreenThe Nature Cons

This half-moon shaped string of islands, known as the Lesser Antilles, stretches 600 miles (966 kilometers) from the U.S. and British Virgin Islands in the north and to Trinidad in the south. More than 18 distinct political units exist on this Caribbean chain of 60-plus islands and hundreds of cayes.
 

Places We Protect

East End Marine Park, the first territorial park in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Buck Island National Monument, East End Marine Park, St. Croix, USVI © Jonathan Kerr

Grenada and the Grenadines

The Conservancy has been working with Grenada and the Grenadines to help these islands expand and strengthen their protected area systems. 

 
 

Spotlight

The Caribbean Challenge was announced at the COP-9 conference in Bonn on May 27, 2008.


 

Images (top to bottom, left to right): St. Croix © Jonahan Kerr, White Ibis © Jonathan Kerr, Buck Island National Monument, East End Marine Park, St. Croix, USVI © Jonathan Kerr.