Community Profile

Borough of Englewood Cliffs

Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Mark Park

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey is a scenic and forward-looking community of approximately 5,800 residents, ideally situated along the Hudson River and atop the iconic Palisades cliffs, just minutes from New York City. With its unique natural landscape and close proximity to a major metropolitan area, the Borough is committed to balancing environmental stewardship with thoughtful, sustainable growth. Englewood Cliffs is actively advancing efforts to support monarch butterfly and pollinator conservation through a combination of policy, public engagement, and targeted habitat initiatives. Planned actions include increasing the use of native plants and pollinator-friendly species such as milkweed in public spaces, coordinating with volunteers and the Palisades Interstate Parkway to expand habitat in appropriate open areas, and integrating these efforts into ongoing Shade Tree Commission and beautification initiatives. The Borough will also issue a formal proclamation recognizing the importance of monarch conservation, launch a public education campaign with dedicated online resources to encourage residents to create pollinator-friendly gardens, and incorporate awareness activities into community events such as Englewood Cliffs Day. Through these efforts, Englewood Cliffs aims to take a practical, community-driven approach to expanding pollinator habitat while fostering greater environmental awareness.

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2026

Communications and Convening ▸

Issue a proclamation to raise awareness about the decline of the monarch butterfly and the species’ need for habitat. This proclamation must incorporate a focus on monarch conservation.
Launch or maintain a public communication effort to encourage residents to plant monarch gardens at their homes or in their neighborhoods. (If you have community members who speak a language other than English, we encourage you to also communicate in that language; Champion Pledges must communicate in that language.)
Engage with city parks and recreation, public works, sustainability, and other relevant staff to identify opportunities to revise and maintain mowing programs and milkweed / native nectar plant planting programs.
Engage with Homeowners Associations (HOAs), Community Associations or neighborhood organizations to identify opportunities to plant monarch gardens and revise maintenance and mowing programs.
Create a community-driven educational conservation strategy, initiative, or practice that focuses on and benefits local, underserved residents.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Facilitate or support a milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.
Plant milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants along roadsides, medians, or public rights-of-way.
Launch or maintain an outdoor education program(s) (e.g., at schools, after-school programs, community centers and groups) that builds awareness and creates habitat by engaging students, educators, and the community in planting native milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants (i.e., National Wildlife Federation’s Schoolyard Habitats program and Monarch Mission curriculum).
Earn or maintain recognition for being a wildlife-friendly city by participating in other wildlife and habitat conservation efforts (i.e., National Wildlife Federation’s Community Wildlife Habitat program).
Host or support a monarch neighborhood challenge to engage neighborhoods and homeowners' associations within the community to increase awareness, support community unity around a common mission, and/or create habitat for the monarch butterfly.

Systems Change ▸

Increase the percentage of native plants, shrubs and trees that must be used in city landscaping ordinances and encourage use of milkweed, where appropriate.
Launch, expand, or continue an effort to change municipal planting ordinances and practices to include more native milkweed and native nectar producing plants at city properties.
Integrate monarch butterfly conservation into the city’s Park Master Plan, Sustainability Plan, Climate Resiliency Plan or other city plans.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Mayor Mark Park	2026	4/29/2026		View Pledge
Mayor Mark Park	2025	3/14/2025		View Pledge

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