Bring Hope to Your Garden for Butterflies
Everyone knows monarch butterflies look like beautiful stained glass windows in flight. However, almost no one has seen the nearly extinct Palos Verdes blue butterfly in the wild because they are so rare. Yet, in the last 30 years, 90% of the monarch butterflies have disappeared and even less of the population of PV blue […]
Technology and Conservation
Did you know that smartphones are now making data collection smarter and simpler for biologists? Every day, hand-held technologies are being used to help guide conservation efforts and enhance the capabilities of Conservancy staff and community science interns and volunteers. As part of an expanded initiative to remove acacia, the Conservancy launched a pilot program […]
Conservancy Announces $30 Million “Go Wild for the Peninsula” Campaign to Create 96 Acre Coastal Wildlife Corridor and Restore the Natural Lands of the Peninsula
The Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy and the City of Rancho Palos Verdes announced their partnership in the creation of a 96-acre Wildlife Corridor on August 26, 2022. The 96-acre coastal wildlife corridor connects coastal land to the existing 1000-acre contiguous Palos Verdes Nature Preserve above. The announcement was made on the site overlooking Rancho […]