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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 ...
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Bronx Park, Bronx - 718 acres (2.91 km 2) [2] Alley Pond Park, Queens - 655 acres (2.65 km 2) [2] Forest Park, Queens - 544 acres (2.20 km 2) [2] While Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is larger than any of the parks listed, at 9,155 acres (37.05 km 2), [3] it is not ranked since it is a wildlife refuge and not an active-use park.
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 ...
The 1,700 acres of land for the park were part of the town's 3,000-acre (1,200 ha) area at that time, but could not be taxed, nearly halving the town's tax revenues from land area. One Pelham resident's letter to New York City Mayor Abram Hewitt , asking for financial assistance to supplement the town's growing tax rate, was published in The ...
The Bronx (/ b r ɒ ŋ k s / BRONKS) is the northernmost borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York.It shares a land border with Westchester County to its north; to its south and west, the New York City borough of Manhattan is across the Harlem River; and to its south and east is the borough of Queens, across the East River.
The winners of the 2024 European Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards have been announced. Launched in 2001, this competition is one of the most prestigious in modern nature photography. This ...
The Lenape peoples who inhabited the greater NYC area directly prior to European colonization relied on trees for food, shelter, tool materials, fuel, and medicine. [6] The typical Lenape house, called a longhouse, relied on the bending of the trunks taken from small trees to create a series of arches to serve as the frame. [6]