BMA x Wild Tomorrow: Forest Restoration – from local to global
Take a break from the panels and presentations to get outside and get your hands dirty, helping to restore a green corridor right here in New York City.
Join Wild Tomorrow and the Broadway Mall Association (BMA) for a hands-on Climate Week experience that takes you off the sidelines and into the green spaces of New York City.
Wild Tomorrow is a New York City-based wildlife conservation organization working to protect, restore, and rewild wildlife and wild spaces in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Through our nature reserve, we are helping create a critical wildlife corridor connecting a private game reserve to a UNESCO biodiversity hotspot. Our work is grounded in three core pillars: protecting wildlife, empowering local communities, and restoring and protecting critical habitat, to create a healthier, more connected landscape for wildlife and people.
The Broadway Mall Association engages and connects the diverse communities along the five-mile stretch of landscaped malls from Washington Heights to Manhattan’s Upper West Side to create visually beautiful and culturally vibrant public spaces open and accessible for all to enjoy.
But first, join Wild Tomorrow’s co-founders and BMA leadership for a conversation about their work creating and restoring wildlife corridors—from the wild spaces of South Africa to the heart of NYC.
Channel your inner Green Mamba—Wild Tomorrow’s all-women land management team in South Africa—and help restore degraded green spaces along Broadway. You’ll get your hands dirty removing invasive species, planting native plants, and learning about the wildlife that calls New York City home.
We’ll meet at the BMA headquarters at 2095 Broadway before heading out for hands-on restoration work.
Habitat loss is one of the greatest threats facing wildlife, which is why habitat restoration is one of the pillars of Wild Tomorrow’s work in South Africa. At our Greater Ukuwela Nature Reserve, we restore degraded landscapes to their natural state, creating the foundation for future rewilding and helping wildlife return to healthy, functioning ecosystems. Restoring Ukuwela’s diverse tapestry of habitats requires hands-on land management, including ecological burns, the removal of invasive plants, and forest restoration. Our Green Mambas are the muscle behind this ecosystem restoration, working year-round to bring degraded habitat back to life.
The Broadway Mall Association is engaged in the ecological restoration of the nearly 6 mile linear park known as the Broadway Malls, introducing thousands of native plants in an effort to create wildlife habitat within the busy urban corridor. By building these habitats in a space of high public visibility, we are generating interest and direct involvement with the value of ecological restoration.
The Broadway green spaces may be small, but they play an important role in making our city greener and providing pockets of habitat for urban wildlife. For many New Yorkers, these spaces are the only nature they encounter during their day.
This Climate Week, don’t just talk about the environment—get outside and help restore it!
What to bring:
A water bottle
Clothes you don’t mind getting dirty
*Vests and gardening gloves are provided
If you are unable to donate, but still interested in participating, please contact us: kholowachuk@broadwaymall.org