A Unique Idea:
Bringing Biodiversity Back to Cities and Towns
Our cities and towns across Massachusetts are prime areas for biodiversity restoration. That is the core of our mission: creating and enlivening biodiversity in and around urban centers with small, low-cost projects in partnership with residents.
Take a look at what we are working on.
Building Back Biodiversity Together
Education and partnership are essential aspects of our work at MUC.
At every opportunity, we partner with local schools, science teachers and, most importantly, students. Our projects offer living laboratories where students can plant, cultivate and grow trees and other vegetation, and experience nature in live settings over time.
Similarly, working with urban residents, property owners and municipal officials, we seek to build urban biodiversity teams comprised of players with a stake in the health of their community.
Tell us your idea for an educational unit.
Our Future Depends on Restoring Biodiversity
Every single one of us has a stake in regaining and maintaining the healthy biodiversity of our planet. For our food, medicine, raw materials for clothing and shelter, breathable air, potable water, livable climate, mental health and other elements necessary to sustain life.
At our current rate of biodiversity loss, every species on earth faces increasing devastation and extinction.
The World Economic Forum estimates that in the past 50 years, from 1970 to 2018, wildlife populations around the world declined by 69%. In 20 years, by 2045, our loss of biodiversity could result in a collapse of ecosystems worldwide. That would be a threat to all life on earth.
The good news is, this trend is reversable. By working together, we can turn Massachusetts cities and towns into biodiversity contributors.
Check out more biodiversity statistics.
Join Us in the Muck
Without you, none of what we do can happen.
Help MUC bring back the muck to our cities; for the species diversity, vegetation variety and ecosystem richness that muck and soil, plants and trees, pollinators and birds all add to our lives, health and sustainability.
Are you a homeowner in a Massachusetts city? Are you a student? A tree expert? Maybe you own an idle, overgrown, quarter-acre lot. Whoever you are and whatever you do, we want to talk to you about ways you can help us build back biodiversity.
Look at these opportunities for you to be involved with MUC.
Our cities need biodiversity. Our cities need MUC. We need you. Join us.
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The Massachusetts Urban Conservancy is a 501(c)3 nonprofit in the process of incorporating. Our mission is to prevent, forestall and mitigate the impacts of climate change by supporting urban areas to become denser and wild areas to become more wild. To sustain support for this work, we prevent invasive species taking root in urban land, plant native plants and trees using scientifically validated approaches, and give school districts in environmental justice communities access to nature to learn about biology, ecology and science.
This is our first proposed teaching site.
