Conservation

Long Island is at the forefront of electric vehicle usage in New York, but environmental advocates say the region has room for improvement in sustainability efforts.

Chile is set to gain its 47th national park early this year — largely due to the efforts of U.S. conservationist Kristine Tompkins and her organization.

This year marks 100 years since the creation of the New York state park system. Historians and environmentalists agree that President Theodore Roosevelt and urban planner Robert Moses laid the groundwork for the beautiful scenery and vast exploration sites New York is known for today.

The Shinnecock Kelp Farmers received $75,000 from The Nature Conservancy to help expand their Indigenous-run kelp farm and hatchery in Shinnecock Bay on eastern Long Island.

A 41-mile stretch of the Housatonic River in Connecticut has been designated ‘Wild and Scenic’ by the federal government. It’s the result of a decades-long effort by conservationists — and it comes with perks.

Deer Lake in Killingworth, a 300-acre forest owned by the Connecticut Yankee Council, part of Boy Scouts of America, is being sold to the nonprofit conservationist group Pathfinder for $4.75 million.

Connecticut and Long Island beaches will be examined as part of a National Audubon Society study of beach nesting birds along the East Coast.

In Killingworth, environmentalists and public officials are trying to stop the Boy Scouts of America from selling its wooded 252-acre Deer Lake Scout Reservation to a developer.

President Biden said last May that he wanted the U.S. to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030. A year later, a vast majority of the Mid-Atlantic Ocean remains at-risk, but new maps could help ocean conservation efforts.

President Biden announced that he will restore protections to the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, a nearly 5,000-square-mile…