Nearest city Christiansted, VI Designated 1980 Phone +1 340-690-9451 | Visitors 0 (in 2006) Area 6 ha Established 1977 | |
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Location Virgin Islands, United States Governing body U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Website Green Cay National Wildlife Refuge Address Christiansted, St Croix 00820, USVI Management United States Fish and Wildlife Service Similar Buck Island Reef National, Buck Island National Wildlife R, Salt River Bay National, Point Udall, Christiansted National Historic S | ||
Green Cay National Wildlife Refuge, just north of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, preserves habitat for the largest remaining population of endangered Saint Croix ground lizard (Ameiva polops). Much smaller populations of ground lizard live on nearby Protestant Cay (17°44′59″N 64°42′10″W) and on Ruth Island. Its extirpation from the mainland of St. Croix is generally attributed to the introduction of the small Indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus). In 2008, the National Park Service reintroduce the lizard to Buck Island, translocating 57 individuals from Green Cay.
The 14-acre (0.06 km²) Green Cay is midway between the town of Christiansted and Buck Island Reef National Monument (which provides law enforcement under an interagency agreement).
Green Cay NWR is administered as part of the Caribbean Islands National Wildlife complex.
There is a smaller "Green Cay" off the coast of St. Thomas (18°18′37″N 64°54′28″W).