Wildfire Strategy Protects your Home and Creates Native Landscape
What should you do to prevent wildfires from spreading through your community? What can you do to protect yourself and your home? Start with the house, working outward to create a ‘defensible space’ between the structure and landscaping and always follow evacuation orders. Creating vegetation-free space around your home can be an opportunity to remove […]
Safeguarding Our Natural Heritage: Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy & Local Land Movement
The Palos Verdes Peninsula’s beautiful landscapes are not only a source of community pride, offering a variety of incredible scenic views and hiking trails, but also a critical habitat for diverse wildlife. Yet, recent land movement along the Peninsula, especially in Rancho Palos Verdes and along the Portuguese Bend, has raised concerns, underscoring the need […]
New Grants Give Conservancy Resources to Rewild Historic Territories for Threatened Species
The Land Conservancy was recently awarded three large grants that will greatly impact the restoration work on the nature preserves. Two grants, awarded by the California Coastal Conservancy, are aimed at removing invasive plant species like Cyclops Acacia and Black Mustard (both of these are also of concern for fire risk) and then restoring endangered […]
Cactus Wren Survey Results Show Species Continues to Struggle
A Community Science Cactus Wren Program was established in 2014 by the Conservancy to train volunteers to serve as Cactus Wren Monitors. Trained volunteers make observations on the nesting, breeding location and other characteristics of this threatened species of Special Concern. Volunteers record their field observations on the mobile app Survey123. With the help of […]
Three Peninsula Residents “Go Wild” with gifts of $1 Million
Two new reserves will be named for generous gifts from two Peninsula families who joined the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy’s Go Wild for the Peninsula. The campaign is raising $30 million to preserve and restore the last large remaining parcels of coastal open space by creating a Wildlife Corridor as well as supporting the […]
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 […]
Classrooms are Welcomed Back Outdoors
The school bus doors swing open and eager 3rd graders flood out, forming a line that snakes up the entrance trail and into the White Point Nature Preserve. The air buzzes with excited conversation, “Look at the flowers, was that a butterfly?” “Yikes, watch the cactus, that wasn’t a snake was it?” “Shhhh, it’s a […]
Conservancy Joins Partnership to Conduct Environmental DNA Analysis
California is one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots, a region with a large number of plant and animal species whose existence is threatened by human activity. California’s wildlife is particularly at risk because many of its species are endemic (only found here) and over 70% of the state’s natural habitat has been lost due to […]
New Activities Make George F Canyon the Family Place
Summer has come to an end, but autumn family fun is just getting started. George F Canyon Nature Center and Preserve is the place to be for parents or grandparents of preschoolers and elementary school children, with new programs for kids and their families to enjoy. The first Saturday of each month offers a guided […]