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Satellite image of the Bronx from May 2022. Landsat near-infrared bands highlight areas of vegetation in false color. The New York City borough of the Bronx is one of the most densely populated places in the United States, but is home to a wide range of wildlife. The borough has a land area of 42 sq mi (110 km 2), [1] of which 24 percent is ...
Tour through Bronx Zoo, 1950. The Wildlife Conservation Society was originally chartered by the government of the State of New York, on April 26, 1895. [6] [7]: 52 Then known as the New York Zoölogical Society, [6] the organization embraced a mandate to advance native wildlife conservation, promote the study of zoology, and create a first-class zoological park that would be free to the public ...
William Temple Hornaday, Sc.D. (December 1, 1854 – March 6, 1937) was an American zoologist, conservationist, taxidermist, and author.He served as the first director of the New York Zoological Park, known today as the Bronx Zoo, and he was a pioneer in the early wildlife conservation movement in the United States.
Urban dwellers in Washington D.C., San Francisco, Toronto, New York City, and Amsterdam might have seen rats scurrying across their cities — and they're not imagining an influx. Rat populations ...
Right before the shutdown last year, Bronx Museum curator Jasmine Wahi reencountered Lizzie Borden’s experimental 1983 film “Born in Flames.” One of Wahi’s friends who works at the ...
Museum extension within Medgar Evers College, CUNY: Valentine-Varian House: Norwood: Bronx: Historic house: Houses the Museum of Bronx History, operated by the Bronx County Historical Society: Van Cortlandt House Museum: Riverdale: Bronx: Historic house: 18th-century period manor house Vander Ende-Onderdonk House: Ridgewood: Queens: Historic house
Bronx: Bronx: New York City: 127-acre park, center open for programs and by appointment Cumming Nature Center: Naples: Ontario: Western New York: 900 acre preserve, operated by the Rochester Museum and Science Center: Dana Discovery Center: Manhattan: Manhattan: New York City: operated by the City in the Harlem region of Central Park
The aquarium is operated by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) as part of its integrated system of four zoos and one aquarium, most notably the Bronx Zoo. It is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). As part of WCS, the aquarium's mission is to save wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action ...