Egmont Key Alliance

05/03/2026

Thank you FOX 13 News - Tampa Bay for covering our State of the Island initiative!

Visit www.egmontkey.org to learn more and sign up to stay in the loop for future opportunities to get involved to help support Egmont Key.

Environmental advocates and leaders in the Bay Area are pushing to restore and preserve Egmont Key, one of the region's precious landmarks. 🔗⬇️

03/17/2026

According to the Florida State Parks Foundation, our beloved Egmont Key has lost hundreds of thousands of visitors, millions of dollars of economic impact, and hundreds of local jobs year over year from 2024 to 2025. It's obvious this is in large part due to the devastation from the 2024 hurricane season.

Read the full 2025 report here:https://floridastateparksfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Egmont-Key-State-Park.pdf
(where Egmont Key Alliance gets a shoutout too!)

Big thank you to the Florida State Parks Foundation for putting together this impactful data for our State Parks.

These losses are a HUGE deal, and the island needs our support more than ever.

Get involved, and join the State of the Island forum coming up on May 1st to help convene stakeholders for a brighter future for the island. This is an Advocacy in Action event, supported by the St. Pete Chamber Sustainability & Resilience Committee. Event details will launch soon!

10/07/2025

09/29/2025

Suncoast Aquaventures, Egmont Key Alliance and Tampa Bay Estuary Program hosted the Great Egmont Key Cleanup on Saturday.

08/31/2025

We 💙 Egmont Key! Thank you Visit St. Pete-Clearwater for helping promote the beauty and importance of this island!!

08/27/2025

It's HAPPENING!!! Help us clean up Egmont Key!
Saturday, September 27, 2025.

This is going to be a big one!
All of our cleanups are important and worthy, but this one especially deserves as many volunteers as possible…
Local boaters know the beauty and uniqueness of Egmont key and since the storms trash remains all over the Island
Come help clean it up Sept 27th

08/21/2025

Nearly a year later, and Egmont Key is still littered with trash and debris.

Progress has been made, but it's not nearly enough! The island remained closed for over 6 months after Hurricane Helene and Milton in Sept. and Oct. 2024. The Park reopened in April.

The Florida State Parks were able to receive FEMA funding to clean up the park ranger / lighthouse area where many of the old sheds and utility areas were completely destroyed - this cleanup happened in May 2025.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service were recently able to get allocated funding from Congress for a larger island cleanup, but are still unsure of timing for completion.

The Egmont Key Alliance is working with the USFWS and some key community partners to make a large island cleanup happen sooner! Save the date - September 27, 2025 - we will be heading out to the island with volunteers, boats, dumpster barges and more to CLEAN UP EGMONT KEY!!!!!!!!! Registration and info coming soon.

08/18/2025

08/18/2025

We are so proud about this partnership with Eckerd College and Goessling Lab to support interns studying the gopher tortoise population at Egmont Key!

And there is great news, the tortoise population is surprisingly strong after the storm surge and hurricane devastation from the 2024 season.

Read more about their research work here:

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