ACTION ALERT: Mountain View's Biodiversity and Urban Forest Plan:
Respond to a survey: (Just 7 short minutes of your time to support biodiversity.)
Your input can help shape the City of Mountain View's Biodiversity and Urban Forest Plan. Please take this online survey in English 参与调查 Spanish or Russian. Mountain View is the first city in our region to embark on a plan for biodiversity, and we hope others will follow. Let us help Mountain View in this important process.
When you fill the survey, please think like a bird, or a butterfly, or a bat that needs food and shelter to thrive in the city! For example, consider the use of locally native plants and trees, reducing light pollution, allowing “wildness” in landscaping and maintenance, reducing the use of pesticides and overall, investing in our vulnerable wildlife (bumble bees, Burrowing Owls), migratory species, local trees and canopy.
You may also participate in a two-hour Stakeholder Workshop on November 7th to support the development of a Biodiversity and Urban Forest Plan for the City of Mountain View 6-8 pm at the Rengstorff Community Center, Redwood Hall. Please sign up HERE.
For more information, see https://collaborate.mountainview.gov/biodiversity
Send a quick email: Biodiversity (5 Minutes)
The Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16) is taking place in Columbia this week. It seems that the future of biodiversity on our planet is not very bright, and we should do all we can to protect species and their habitats in the Bay Area and beyond.
Please send a message to COP 16 Delegates to express our hope for a sustainable world where birds and nature can thrive: https://act.audubon.org/a/messages-of-hope
Watch our Environmental Advocacy Assistant Julianne Wang’s presentation on migratory birds, presented to the Palo Alto Parks and Recreation Commission on October 23, 2024. Watch the recording here.
With over 23,000 images entered into the competition, ‘When Worlds Collide’ by Patricia Homonylo was declared Overall Winner and Bird Photographer of the Year 2024. This photo of 4000 birds killed by colliding with buildings in Chicago highlights the importance of designing a Bird-friendly urban/suburban landscape in our communities.
Help requested: Palo Alto Bird Safe Design and Dark Sky ordinances will come back to discussion by the Planning Commission on Wednesday, October 30th. If you are available that evening, and willing to speak or to cede your time to our advocates, please email Shani (Advocate@scvas.org). The City Council will be making a final decision in November (we hope).