Climate Change
A Lifeline for New York’s Threatened Wetlands
The city’s only wetlands “mitigation bank” on Staten Island sells credits to waterfront developers so they can comply with a federal “no net loss” policy for these coastal ecosystems.
Once a regular victim of illegal midnight dumping, Saw Mill Creek Marsh now provides habitat for three dozen species of birds, including the saltmarsh sparrow, whose population numbers are declining due to sea level rise encroaching on their breeding grounds.