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Meet the man cleaning up Florida's mangrove forests

WBUR | By Catherine Welch
Published April 16, 2026 at 8:03 AM AKDT
In this Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, photo, the Marsh Trail bisects a section of the Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge in the western Everglades near Naples, Fla. Clusters of mangroves form islands in a shallow estuary. A healthy mangrove forest is important for protecting coasts during storms. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP)
Robert F. Bukaty/AP
In this Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, photo, the Marsh Trail bisects a section of the Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge in the western Everglades near Naples, Fla. Clusters of mangroves form islands in a shallow estuary. A healthy mangrove forest is important for protecting coasts during storms. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP)

Picking up trash in mangrove forests has become a calling for one Florida man.

Here & Now‘s Catherine Welch reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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Catherine Welch