PlayCleanGo Awareness Week
Mark your calendars: June 7-14, 2025
Partnering Together To Protect Our Favorite Places
Join us for PlayCleanGo® Awareness Week, taking place June 7–14, 2025, across North America! The North American Invasive Species Management Association (NAISMA) invites outdoor enthusiasts, land managers, and recreation partners across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to take part in this annual campaign, which empowers everyone who enjoys the outdoors to take simple, effective actions to prevent the spread of invasive species—and protect the places we love.
This year’s theme, “Partnering Together to Protect Our Favorite Places,” underscores the importance of collaboration in safeguarding trails, parks, waterways, and wildlands. Through a unified North American effort—co-hosted with our PlayCleanGo® partners in Canada and Mexico, including Invasives Canada and CONABIO—this campaign highlights how collective action can lead to meaningful change across borders.
Throughout the week, we’ll be sharing inspiring stories, helpful tips, and outreach from individuals and organizations who are taking steps to “PlayCleanGo” in their everyday adventures. Our 2025 taglines—“Together we can prevent the spread of invasive species” and “All of us can protect our favorite places”—remind us that everyone has a role to play.
How to Get Involved:
- Partner with us to reach the outdoor recreation community through local events, videos, social media, and media outreach.
- Add your events to our PlayCleanGo® Awareness Week calendar!
- Explore partnership opportunities to support prevention-focused outreach.
- Use hashtags #PlayCleanGoWeek and #PlayCleanGo in your outreach and posts.
- Tag PlayCleanGo® so we can help amplify your efforts:
- @PlayCleanGo on Facebook and Twitter
- @Play.Clean.Go on Instagram
- Share your story PlayCleanGo® story with us by uploading a photo at:
playcleango.org/take-action/photo-release-form
Dozens of free outreach materials are available on this webpage, including graphics, messaging templates, and multilingual resources. Download the PlayCleanGo® Starter Kit to help you promote this important campaign and encourage your community to Stop Invasive Species In Your Tracks™!
Show outdoor enthusiasts how they can stop invasive species from spreading — while enjoying the great outdoors.
NAISMA will be hosting its annual PlayCleanGo Awareness Week from June 1-8, 2024, across North America. This annual event aims to educate outdoor enthusiasts on the importance of stopping the spread of invasive species while enjoying the great outdoors. This year’s theme is “Real People, Real Stories” and we’ll be highlighting individuals and organizations that have demonstrated how they PlayCleanGo® to protect their favorite places.
- Join us from June 1-8, 2024 to celebrate PlayCleanGo® Awareness Week across North America!
- Partner with us to engage our recreationist community through events, videos, social media channels, and local media outlets.
- Add your PlayCleanGo® Awareness Week events to our calendar!
- Learn more about sponsorship opportunities here.
- In your outreach, use the hashtags #PlayCleanGoWeek and #PlayCleanGo and encourage outdoor enthusiasts to demonstrate how they “PlayCleanGo.”
- Tag PlayCleanGo® in your posts to help us see who’s joining the movement with @PlayCleanGo (Facebook/Twitter) and @Play.Clean.Go (Instagram).
- Share your PlayCleanGo® story with us by visiting our photo upload form here: https://playcleango.org/take-action/photo-release-form/.
Dozens of free materials are available on this webpage to help you spread the word and Stop Invasive Species In Your Tracks™!
Show outdoor enthusiasts how they can stop invasive plants and pests from spreading — while enjoying the great outdoors.