• Roosevelt Community Garden Safely Reopens

    The Roosevelt Community Garden was able to safely reopen despite the COVID 19 Pandemic. Garden members ended the season with a Fall Harvest and Garlic Planting.

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  • North Shore Land Alliance Humes Preserve Meadow

    Stepping Up to the Plate: Bostwick Dollar-For-Dollar Matching Gift Challenge

    Tommy Bostwick of Bostwick Capital adopted a conservation ethic early on. He fondly remembers time spent outside helping his Dad care for the nearby Jane B. Francke Sanctuary in Old Brookville. When he saw the stewardship responsibility the Land Alliance was taking on at Humes, he stepped up to help. His firm launched a dollar-for-dollar […]

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  • O'Neil Stewards Program

    O’Neil Conservation Stewards Program Extended

    We are grateful to the William C. and Joyce C. O’Neil Charitable Trust for extending the grant for our O’Neil Conservation Steward Program.

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  • The unique sawgrass, mangrove and “tree island” character of the Everglades. Photo credit: Friends of the Everglades

    Water Issues Are Not Unique to Long Island

    The Florida Everglades is one of the most unique ecosystems in the world. Home to the American alligator, the Florida panther and countless other endemic species, the Everglades also provides important ecosystem services to South Florida such as replenishing our freshwater aquifers and buffering us from storms and flooding. The Everglades also face some huge challenges to its conservation.

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  • Loss of Plant Species

    Biodiversity is being lost – locally, regionally and globally. It is now estimated that approximately one third of global plant species are at risk of extinction.

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