Discovering Urban Biodiversity is a multi-year research partnership between the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies y Scenic Hudson. The goal is to engage residents in three Mid-Hudson river cities — Kingston, Newburgh, and Poughkeepsie — to document and discover the amazing diversity of animal and plant life all around them.
Biodiversity, the variety of life on earth, is not always documented or appreciated in cities as much as it is in more rural landscapes. Yet, our urban areas are actually teeming with life! Raccoons, opossums, foxes, skunks, and deer are just some of the animals we’ve recently observed.
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