Signs of a Healthy Beach

Conservancy scientists agree: A healthy beach is one that has room to wander and hasn’t been overdeveloped.
Check out the Conservancy’s other signs that a beach is healthy, then see if your favorite New York beach fits the criteria when you get away this summer.
What Should a Healthy Beach Look Like?
Help the Gulf
The Gulf: Ways You Can Help
You can help restoration efforts in the Gulf in three ways.
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Must-See Migrations

It isn’t just New Yorkers that come back to life, and out of their apartments, with the changing of the seasons.
Spring also means that hawks, salmon and a variety of brightly colored songbirds are setting out on their own version of vacation in the Hamptons. Learn more about our state’s seasonable, non-human migrations.
Read About New York's Top Five Migrations
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Leaders in Environmental Action for the Future

The Nature Conservancy’s Leaders in Environmental Action for the Future (LEAF) Program works to make a difference for our most precious resources—children and nature-by combining classroom lessons with real-world conservation work experience for urban youth. Learn more>>

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Features

Into Africa
Take a virtual tour through Kenya
Then follow Connie Roosevelt jet-setting into Africa where her support is essential in protecting the Black Rhino as this gentle desert-dweller close to extinction.
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Champlain Basin Climate Change Report
Check out one of the first efforts in North America to assess climate change on a watershed scale and offer adaptation strategies.
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