Our Plastic Pollution Problem
Thanks to volunteers and our incredible Alliance team, we removed over 54,000 pieces of floatable trash from the Bronx River in 2016, and over 40,000
03/01/2017
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Thanks to volunteers and our incredible Alliance team, we removed over 54,000 pieces of floatable trash from the Bronx River in 2016, and over 40,000
For those interested in restoration work, especially in highly urbanized areas like the Bronx and NYC, Marit Larson, Chief of Natural Resources for NYC Parks
On February 17, 2017 in Washington, D.C. the Bronx River Alliance and NYC Parks received the 2017 Audrey Nelson Community Development Achievement Award. The National
SAVE THE PLASTIC BAG BILL Every year 9.37 billion plastic bags make their way into the City’s waste stream and into our local rivers and
Through Project WASTE we tackled one of the river’s major pollutants—floatable garbage—by installing a boom to trap trash. A cadre of citizen scientists helped us
Yesterday the watershed was alive with sounds of collaboration. Thank you to all of the speakers, facilitators, community organizations, agency representatives, and interested individuals who
On Friday, November 11th, the Bronx River Alliance had the honor of receiving a Chinese delegation with ten experts from the Department of Fisheries or
Linda Cox, our executive director since 2002, plans to retire next year from her dual role as Executive Director of the Alliance and Bronx River
The final Oyster Monitoring day of this year was October 15th at Soundview Park with a group of approximately a dozen volunteers lead by NY/NJ
What’s going on? Many people have been reporting seeing a number of dead fish floating in the Bronx River, especially around Starlight and Concrete Plant
The Bronx River Alliance serves as a coordinated voice for the river and works in harmonious partnership to protect, improve and restore the Bronx River corridor so that it can be a healthy ecological, recreational, educational and economic resource for the communities through which the river flows.
The Alliance works in close partnership with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation and with over one hundred other partners to reclaim the Bronx River.