What is a
PopUP Forest
PopUP Forests are temporary & immersive natural area experiences in un-natural places
Marielle Anzelone riding the PopUP Forest over the Brooklyn Bridge.
New Yorker taking selfie with PopUP Forest in Manhattan
PopUP Forest in Times Square
Marielle Anzelone riding the PopUP Forest over the Brooklyn Bridge.
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What We Do
PopUP Forest creates immersive, nature-based experiences that amplify grassroots efforts for biodiversity conservation.
We're growing a global movement of nature stakeholders to build a greener, more resilient urban future.
Biodiversity conservation receives limited policy engagement and little media coverage
The
Challenge
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Mobilize civic support for urban wild places to drive momentum towards the 2020 U.N. accord.
The
response
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Our Legacy
We're creating opportunities for equitable access to nature for all city dwellers...
through community engagement and programming
through outdoor classroom education
through systems-level intervention and legislation
"Every hour, three species disappear."
Ahmed Djoghlaf
Former Executive Secretary of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity
Why We Care
Most people think nature is only in far away places, filled with rivers, mountains, and polar bears. But nature is also all around us, where we live - in cities. Loss of biodiversity is happening everywhere. Globally: Insects are lost. Wildflowers are disappearing. Species are going extinct.