Greenland Woods encompasses several pockets of former scrub and grassy sites in Fairmount Park ranging in size from 0.5 to 1.5 acres. The site is within a mile or so of the Zoo, and near the Zoo’s Migrant Stopover Ecology Study bird banding project.
Planting trees in these areas will fill gaps that are currently fragmenting the habitat and will create significant plots of unbroken forest that will benefit local species such as migratory and resident birds and indigenous mammals such as raccoon, opossum, red fox, rabbit, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates such as butterflies. Current plans for Greenland Woods reforestation call for 875 trees to be planted to reforest an area of 3.5 acres.