Save Ballona Wetlands

10/19/2024

9th Annual P-22 Day Festival! Griffith Park until 4 pm.

10/19/2024

It’s P-22 Day at Griffith Park! Come to the carousel/picnic area from 11 am to 4 pm today & help us all celebrate the memory of P-22, Hollywood’s Mountain Lion and ALL of the amazing wildlife Los Angeles has to offer!

And write a message to Governor Gavin Newsom ti PROTECT, not Bulldoze, Ballona Wetlands!

08/20/2024

https://apnews.com/press-release/ein-presswire-newsmatics/california-bats-los-angeles-lawsuits-999896b5ee2ec5c62e851f8e0fd3dd49

11/06/2023

This is a VERY important alert. Please sign the letter and also please show up for a scoping hearing on Tuesday, Nov. 7 at 6 pm. Info is in this "take action" alert! ALL VOICES NEEDED for the voiceless at the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve.

*California Residents*
Despite a court victory for 1,700 species of plants and animals at Ballona Wetlands, the government won't give up its attempt to bulldoze this precious habitat and is now requesting nearly $3 million for its 10-year phony “restoration” project. We must implore the Wildlife Conservation Board to defer or deny approving this request!

Take action: https://bit.ly/46XIClQ

Please share this post to maximize your impact, and consider making a donation to support our work on this issue https://bit.ly/3MpedEz
Thank you.

10/27/2023

Do you know what it took to place the Ballona Wetlands and surrounding habitats into public ownership? It was 20 years ago this acquisition took place, and 5 years later the first Celebrate Ballona gala honored elected officials and journalists who helped. Watch this short video.

07/07/2021

Meandering waterway at the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve. Created by Nature; not bulldozers.

08/15/2019

Butterflies and Caterpillars ~ all over at the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve at this time of year!

Thanks to Jonathan Coffin for his artistic and watchful eye.

07/30/2018

These wetlands ~ the Villa Marina Tule Wetlands ~ are at risk. If the auto dealer who wants to put these wetlands in a pipe is successful at getting final permits, the water that flows through this land will no longer go into the sloughs of the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve. You can help stop this. Here's how you can help:

1) Please write an email message registering your SUPPORT for the appeal of Ballona Institute and Villa Napoli HOA - to save the Villa Marina Tule Wetlands and the 118 mature trees - from becoming a paved, lighted auto storage site.

DEADLINE: ***Monday July 30, no later than 4:00 pm***

Write to: Planning APCWestLA

And copy: [email protected], Henry Chu , Oliver Netburn , [email protected]

SUBJECT LINE: SUPPORT APPEAL: Case -2016-248-CU-CDP-ZAA-1A and Case -2016-249-MND-REC1, 13200 West Mindanao Way

2) Attend our appeals hearing at the West LA Planning Commission THIS COMING WEDNESDAY - August 1 4:30 pm, Henry Medina West LA Parking Enforcement Facility, 2nd Floor, Roll Call Room, 11214 West Exposition Boulevard (at Sepulveda), Los Angeles, 90064.

If you can't arrive at 4:30, please still come as there will be some business ahead of our hearing.

Parking is available in the Metro parking lot at 11295 Exposition for $3 (carpool, please!), just south of the Henry Medina Facility. There is also likely some space at the Post Office next to the Metro parking lot. Enter Exposition easily from Sawtelle. And let us know, please, if you will attend.

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The appeals are supported by Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin, Sierra Club, Del Rey Neighborhood Council, Del Rey Residents Assn., Los Angeles Audubon Society, Playa del Rey Guardians Society, Ballona Creek Renaissance and many, many individuals?!

THANK YOU!

03/16/2018

More rain tomorrow and next week. Good! Now that illegally-installed drains, like this one, have been capped by order of the Coastal Commission, the rains can soak into the soils and replenish the wetlands.