Pratt heads the nonprofit National Wildlife Federation’s #SaveLACougars campaign, which seeks to raise funds to build an $87-million bridge that will allow isolated clans of cougars to cross a 10-lane stretch of the 101 Freeway at Liberty Canyon Road in Agoura Hills.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2021-12-11/beth-pratt-raised-millions-for-a-cougar-overpass?_amp=true

Historically, the Pacific Rim supported between 150,000 and 300,000 sea otters, but the population is now estimated at about 106,000.

https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2021-09-20/endangered-species-and-wildlife/groups-push-for-progress-during-sea-otter-awareness-week/a75789-1

Wildlife advocates and the National Park Service are at odds over a spike in elk mortality.

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2021-4-fall/feature/curious-case-dead-elk-point-reyes-national-seashore?amp

Teachers and student leaders are invited to attend an optional informational webinar on 9/2/2021 at 3:45 pm.

https://calgeography.sdsu.edu/celebrate-california-biodiversity-day/

This year is the third celebration of California Biodiversity Day, which takes place every Sept 7th. Check out one of the iNaturalist projects planned for Sept 4-12th to learn more about California's unique biodiversity!

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/california-biodiversity-day-events-2021

June 11 - 30

https://www.calacademy.org/calcoast?amp

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/snapshot-cal-coast-2021

Conservation groups and whale lovers will gather on Tuesday, June 8, which is World Oceans Day, at Crissy Field East Beach in San Francisco to honor the 12 dead whales that have washed up in the Bay Area so far this year and call for greater protections.

https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/a-wake-for-the-whales-to-mark-bay-area-deaths-call-for-new-protections-2021-06-04/

The second workshop offered by the California Fish and Game Commission and California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is scheduled for May 28, 2021.

https://cdfgnews.wordpress.com/2021/05/24/state-wildlife-agencies-to-hold-second-workshop-on-coyotes-in-urban-areas/amp/

A wild place—and an American ideal—are heading for destruction. We can stop it now.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2423817/yvon-chouinard-wants-protect-point-reyes

Invented by citizen science staff at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (Lila Higgins) and California Academy of Sciences (Alison Young). The City Nature Challenge is an international effort for people to find and document plants and wildlife in cities across the globe. It’s a bioblitz-style competition where cities are in a contest against each other to see who can make the most observations of nature, who can find the most species, and who can engage the most people.

More Info:
https://citynaturechallenge.org/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yO45mO9BUJM&t=31s