The Los Angeles City Planning Commission recently approved a new Wildlife Ordinance. The City Council will make the final decision about the ordinance’s approval.
Guest editorial: For sake of wildlife, exit lockdown with care
Tiffany Yap
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The odds are stacked against mountain lions in California. In a state with a landscape fractured by roads and riddled with rat poison, it’s hard out there for a puma.
Approximately 100 California mountain lions die every year from collisions with cars. Some are killed upon impact and others die later from their injuries or their inability to find food after being struck.
When the pandemic hit, The Ventura County Star reported that such collisions plunged. Traffic fell significantly following initial stay-at-home orders, leading to a 58% drop in mountain lion deaths, according to the UC Davis Road Ecology Center.
Media Advisory, April 28, 2021
Contact:
Paul Edelman, Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, (310) 589-3200, ext. 128, edelman@smmc.ca.gov
Tony Tucci, Citizens for Los Angeles Wildlife (CLAW), (310) 968-6314, tony@clawonline.org
Los Angeles Leaders Urged to Prioritize Wildlife Corridor Funding
LOS ANGELES Local conservation advocates will urge city leaders to make wildlife corridors a budget priority during a Thursday discussion with the Los Angeles planning and building and safety departments.
The development of the city’s first wildlife corridor program and associated ordinance is a 2021 milestone in Los Angeles’ 2019 Green New Deal. Yet the 2021-22 budget proposal unveiled by Mayor Eric Garcetti defunded all associated staff positions in the Planning Department’s Wildlife Pilot Study Program. Failure to adequately fund these positions will effectively kill the wildlife corridor ordinance before it is even implemented.