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Endangered Frogs Delay Rebuilding After Paradise Wildfire
After losing their homes last fall during the devastating Camp Fire that destroyed most of the town of Paradise, Calif., many residents are anxious to rebuild.
Finding the middle ground for aviation safety and waterfowl
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recognized “the loss, degradation and fragmentation of migratory bird habitat” as potentially the largest single threat to migratory birds. Human activity contributes to the loss, compounded by climate change.
Mustard flowers may be beautiful, but could fuel fires
The mustard flower, although beautiful, is not what park rangers like Hector Inzunza want to see blooming. They spell trouble for native plants and animals and for the coming fire season.
Retired Oil Rigs off the California Coast Could Find New Lives as Artificial Reefs
Offshore oil and gas drilling has been a contentious issue in California for 50 years, ever since a rig ruptured and spilled 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil off Santa Barbara in 1969. Today it’s spurring a new debate: whether to completely dismantle 27 oil and gas platforms scattered along the southern California coast as they end their working lives, or convert the underwater sections into permanent artificial reefs for marine life.
Support the Bill to Regulate Pesticides Killing Wildlife!
A specific kind of pesticide, rat poison, is killing wildlife in California from eagles, great-horned owls, coyotes, bobcats, and mountain lions to San Joaquin kit fox.
300 goats are chewing their way through Rancho Palos Verdes, and that’s a good thing
The goats are expected to remain throughout June.
Are tourists ruining California? This account is trying to stop risky and illegal behavior
In response, someone created an Instagram account, initially called @bigsurhatesyou to shame visitors’ inconsiderate behavior in the Big Sur area.
Rare sight of black swans, native to Australia, spotted in Rainbow Harbor
They are typically owned by collectors, fanciers, breeders, aviaries, estates that keep them as ornamental birds. They are a restricted species in California that need a permit to possess.
Sustainable Guitars – Giving Back To The Trees And Communities That Helped Create Music
The Ebony Project, a marriage between business, local communities and researchers, has now produced nearly 4,000 new ebony saplings (Diospyros crassiflora Hiern) in the Cameroon region of the basin – approaching an initial goal to plant 15,000 trees.
As UN warns of widespread extinction, California is already losing species
A new United Nations report warning of a global extinction crisis identifies three parts of the world in particular danger: South America, Africa and parts of Asia.