Nature & Gardens
New Study Finds U.S. And Canada Have Lost More Than One In Four Birds In The Past 50 Years
Three billion North American birds have vanished since 1970, surveys show
The 9/11 Tribute Lights Are Endangering 160,000 Birds a Year
The New York Times - Every year on Sept. 11, two soaring beams of light turn on over Lower Manhattan in a glowing tribute to those killed 18 years ago. Observers looking closely can spot dots and shapes gathering inside the towers of light, moving, multiplying, wheeling lower and...
Leon Levy Foundation Supports NYC Audubon’s Project Safe Flight – Helping Birds Migrate Safely Through New York City
NYBG Opens its largest ever show: “Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx”
The New York Times - “Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx” has taken over the New York Botanical Garden — and offers an exuberant gust of tropical modernism that will thrill anyone caught in the concrete jungle. Burle Marx, Brazil’s greatest landscape designer, hasn’t lacked for institutional attention...
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Celebrates the Completion of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Water Garden Conservation Project
Cherry Tree Blooms Greet New Water Conservation Project at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden was in prime bloom today to celebrate the completion of a multi-year project to make the garden more sustainable. The ribbon was cut today on an earth friendly water conservation project that collects, filters and recirculates rain and groundwater through the garden. The water project also involved the...
How Dangerous Is It to Be a Bird in Your City? Buildings Kill Hundreds of Millions a Year
The New York Times - Every year, millions of birds migrating at night, often distracted by bright city lights, die by flying into American buildings. Now a study shows where they may be most at risk — and how efforts to save them might be honed.
Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve is now a BGCI Accredited Botanic Garden – and the first in the Bahamas!
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Study Names Top Cities Emitting Light that Endangers Migratory Birds
An estimated 600 million birds die from building collisions every year in the U.S., and research from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology offers one explanation for it.A team led by Kyle Horton, a Rose postdoctoral fellow at the lab, ranked metropolitan areas where, due to a combination of light pollution and geography, birds are...
