Restoring New York Harbour – Lessons from the Billion Oyster Project

Restoring New York Harbor: Lessons from the Billion Oyster Project

Monday 12 October | 6pm
Huxley Lecture Theatre, ZSL, London
40-minute talk followed by 20 minutes of Q&A

Pete will share the story of the Billion Oyster Project and its ambitious work to restore oyster reefs to New York Harbor. Drawing on more than a decade of experience, he’ll explore lessons from delivering oyster restoration at scale, bringing together restoration, education and community engagement, and what practitioners elsewhere can learn from the project.

About Pete Malinowski
Pete Malinowski grew up farming oysters with his parents and siblings on the Fishers Island Oyster Farm. His passion for the environment and education led him to the New York Harbor School, where he founded the school’s Aquaculture and Oyster Restoration Programs and spent five years as a teacher. This work at Harbor School led to the development of Billion Oyster Project in 2014. For the last decade Pete has led Billion Oyster Project and efforts to build a clean, accessible and abundant New York Harbor that is well known, well-loved and well cared for by the greatest city in the world. Pete spends as much of his free time as possible on the water or in the woods with his three children Adrian, Maxwell and Daisy.

This is a great opportunity to hear more about the Billion Oyster Project, ask Pete questions, and meet fellow members of the Native Oyster Network.

The event will be held in person at ZSL’s Huxley Lecture Theatre. If you plan to attend in person, please register via our Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-new-york-harbour-lessons-from-the-billion-oyster-project-tickets-2002419834629

You can join the session online via Microsoft Teams using the link below:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YmMxYzczMjYtZTM1Zi00NzUyLWIwMTgtNTk5MGZlNTVhZmRh%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%227d16a112-fecf-4031-b199-3c9c892bcc9c%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22e3f176b2-7545-46f7-9b97-5f2bcc546e60%22%7d