A group of volunteers is working to protect the piping plover, a vulnerable native bird living along the New York coastline.

The New York City Native Species Planting Guide is updated every five years to reflect new information on species’ use as well as nomenclature.

New York will launch its 12th annual Invasive Species Awareness Week (ISAW) on Monday, June 9, with a full slate of public ...

The annual Thunderbird American Indian powwow at the Queens Farm museum is one of many Native events that happen in New York city all year round (Credit: Getty Images) Four hundred years after ...

Black-spotted like a leopard, the green-hued frog is one of three animals native to the New York City area that the New York Department of Environmental Conservation is proposing to add to its ...

The New York ... a species that's native to Europe. That effort involved consulting with a European ant expert who could hardly believe that this ant was living it up in the city that never ...

A few years ago, the Murrysville native moved to New York City, where she quickly began cataloguing five boroughs’ worth of oddities for her newest guidebook, “Secret New York City ...