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5 Legislators Can Help Us Stop Native Plant Extinction – Is Yours One of Them?Budget deliberations are underway this week at the state Capitol, and biodiversity is on the table. Asm. Ash Kalra of San Jose has requested $2M to help California Plant Rescue (CaPR) reach its goal of seed-banking 75 percent of California’s rare plants by 2020. CaPR is already more than 50 percent towards its goal, an important target set by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. You can help! If you are represented by one of these members, please contact them before Friday! Sample script and contact info here.
Also, if you live in Asm. Ash Kalra's district, please be sure to thank him for supporting California's native plant biodiversity! |
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Finding Hope in the Face of Extinction: A California PerspectiveThe recent United Nations report on extinction is dire but not cause for paralysis. We actually know how to halt native plant extinction in California. From seed-banking and rare plant treasure hunts to conservation, many of you are an active part of proven approaches that work. What's needed now is convincing the public that extinction doesn't have to be our destiny. Please read this recent op-ed by former Gov. Jerry Brown and CNPS Executive Director Dan Gluesenkamp and be sure share to share it with your friends! |
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Holding LA County Supervisors AccounableCNPS and the Center for Biological Diversity are suing the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for approving the controversial Centennial development. The project will convert some of California’s most important remaining grasslands and spectacular wildflower fields into a sprawling city of 57,000 people north of Los Angeles. It also places future residents in a high wildfire hazard severity zone. The supervisors’ approval violates the California Environmental Quality Act, which prohibits them from approving projects with significant environmental effects unless the benefits of the project outweigh its environmental and public health costs. “The county’s decision to support this high-end sprawl development belies common sense and shows a tone-deaf disregard for the real people who would be living in harm’s way,” CNPS Executive Director Dan Gluesenkamp said. “At a time when California leads the world in forward thinking solutions, Centennial is a shocking reversion to the biggest mistakes of our past, and out of step with where we need to be. The combination of wildfire risk, environmental degradation and disastrous commuter options makes it clear they can’t go forward as planned.” Read the news release. |
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Living with Fire Part 3: Legislative Solutions on the HorizonA suite of proposed legislation focuses on the much-needed areas of defensible space, hardening of homes, and the prevention of new developments in high fire areas. Here's what you should know. |
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