March 2024
How (and Why) to do a Biodiversity Audit in Your Backyard
Read more: How (and Why) to do a Biodiversity Audit in Your BackyardIt’s no secret that biodiversity is in decline: North America has lost close to 3 billion birds since the 1970s, and insects are disappearing just as quickly. More than a third of plants are also at risk of extinction. A gloomy picture, to say the least, but unlike much of the bad news about the…
Bringing Biodiversity Back
Read more: Bringing Biodiversity Back“We have declared 2024 the year of milkweed,” says Andi Pettis, director of horticulture at Governors Island. For the past couple of years, Pettis and her team have been busy incorporating milkweed into the island’s plantings.