Cleaning up litter in Forest Park

Pictured are Sharon Deem and Jamie Palmer with the St. Louis Zoo Institute for Conservation Medicine (ICM) and ICM interns Katie Handler and Emily Lesniak. Photo by Stella Uiterwaal.

We recently spent some time cleaning up litter in the park. We focused on Deer Lake Savanna, where two of our tagged turtles, Tom and Jerry, hang out. We found so much plastic, much of it food packaging! Check out one of our before and after transformations below:

Before

After!