Marielle Anzelone, founder of NYC Wildflower Week and PopUP Forest, is a botanist who works to save nature in New York City by connecting people to it.
Planet earth’s climate crisis has a twin problem that is no less deadly: an ecological crisis of extinctions and biodiversity loss. Global loss of biological diversity is one of the greatest challenges of our time. In spite of our absolute dependence on the natural world for survival, human activity has destabilized ecosystems, damaged habitats, disrupted ocean life, exploited wild plant and animal species, and polluted air, land and water. Given the dangerous decline of the natural world, New York City has a role to play in urging the Federal government to sign onto the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. Urban ecologist Marielle Anzelone will talk about why preserving biodiversity in New York City matters to the health and future of the planet.