The Great South Bay Oyster Project made it’s mark with an initial planting of over 5,000 oysters in Save The Great South Bay’s recently established oyster sanctuary, helping rebuild marine habitat and providing essential environmental functions such as water...
Want to help us collect data on debris? There’s an app for that. The Clean Swell app. At Save The Great South Bay, we are firm believers in the age old adage of you can’t manage what you can’t measure. Starting in 2021 and in collaboration with the...
Jet skis (personal water craft) are a lot of fun, and we love having fun on the Great South Bay, but full throttle jet ski riding in the marshlands can do some real harm to nature. Marsh sidewalls are sensitive and the propulsion from jet ski’s can cause them to...
An intense and damaging brown tide has erupted across Great South Bay on the south shore of Long Island. Monitoring by The Gobler Laboratory at Stony Brook University has revealed that a brown tide has rapidly intensified to more than 300,000 cells per milliliter in...
To all our boater friends – help protect marine life of our Bay. Raw sewage in our waterways causes pollution, algal blooms, possible diseases for shellfish areas, and can close areas for swimming. – pump out, don’t dump out. Our Creek Defenders...
This Spring the Office of Parks and Recreation replaced 5,000 cubic yards of sand at Gilgo State Park from its hard to obtain emergency reserve. The beach nourishment enabled the Park to safely open this Spring to the more than 22,000 Recreational Vehicle Access...
As reported by Danielle Campbell, News 12 Long Island on 05/26/21. Parts of Long Island are seeing Mahogany Tide, an algal bloom, very early on in the season this year — a big problem for fish and shellfish. Word of a mahogany tide showing up on Long Island...
In honor of Endangered Species Day, we welcome world expert John T. Tanacredi as a guest blogger on the perilous future of horseshoe crabs, as seen in the May 20, 2021 edition of the Babylon Beacon. Horseshoe crabs need special protections as they face extinction For...
The typical suburban yard lacks the basic necessities of wildlife habitat, devoid of birds, butterflies and other delightful creatures. These creatures are not only an essential part of local ecosystems but also provide an amazing nature show! What does a butterfly...
Despite a cloudy start to the day, it was a “shore” thing as Patchogue Creek Defender James Acierno partnered with local nautical brand Old Soldier and the team at Blue Point Brewing Company and our steady dates for this Creek Defender season, Starbucks,...
Written by Tom Schlichter and as seen in Newsday, 04/29/21 Long Island outdoors lovers are often looking for environmental organizations to volunteer with come spring. Especially attractive are grassroots societies that endeavor to promote, protect and improve our...
Harmful algal blooms may be lurking in waters near you. From our colleagues at the NYS Department of Environmental Control. Because it is hard to tell a HAB from non-harmful algal blooms, it is best to avoid swimming, boating, otherwise recreating in, or drinking...
