Ballona Wetlands

The Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve is 600+ acres on the L.A. coast that were placed into public ownership by the State of California in 2003/2004.

02/03/2024

Celebrating World Wetlands Day! Gavin Newsom’s Fish & Wildlife Director claims the state should spend $250 million + to “reconnect Ballona Wetlands to its water source.”

Mother Nature is doing it right ~ with rainwater, which is what most of the plants and animals rely on (not high salinity ocean water).

Celebrate Ballona!

12/22/2023

Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve ~ “reconnected to its water source” ~ which falls from the sky, not from the ocean.

10/22/2023

We are at P-22 Wildlife Festival at Griffith Park. Children and families are writing postcards to California Governor Newsom, Supervisor Janice Hahn and Rep. Ted Lieu. The message is clear: no bulldozing Ballona Wetlands!

10/11/2023

Have you signed this petition yet? PLEASE SIGN TODAY.

Save Bird Island - Stop the Unsafe Bridge Over Centinela Creek

07/02/2023

Want to know the latest about the legal efforts to protect the Ballona Wetlands?

Don't believe the "Alternative Facts." Here are the FACTS!

And bonus reading: Seven questions Marcia Hanscom would ask Governor Gavin Newsom about the project if she had the chance....

One of your neighbors posted in Neighbor News. Click through to read what they have to say. (The views expressed in this post are the author’s own.)

05/30/2023

excerpt:

“We welcome the ruling,” said Marcia Hanscom, a community organizer for Defend Ballona Wetlands. “It gives the mosaic of habitats at the ecological reserve a reprieve from facing utter destruction and upheaval by state officials who — shockingly — favor sending bulldozers and other heavy equipment into these fragile wetlands.”

She fears that dozens of struggling species, and much of their habitat, would be sacrificed by restoration-related excavation, and the addition of 10 miles of bike paths.

A judge ordered the state to suspend any project activity and prepare a 'legally adequate' environmental impact report 'if it chooses to proceed.'

02/07/2022

“We call that the precautionary principle, which is a principle that medical doctors think of all the time and it’s ‘First do no harm,’” Hanscom said.

“And so if this were a parking lot and you wanted to dig it all up and turn it into something else, that’d be one thing, but that’s not what this is and so the endangered spaces issue is crucial and in the center of why a lot of us are working to protect this place as it is. And that doesn’t mean there aren’t some things that could be done. It just means don’t dig up the place and alter the habitat with this big industrial plan.”

https://argonautnews.com/the-ballona-wetlands-are-rich-with-nature-history-educational-value-and-controversy/

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322 Culver Blvd, Ste 317
Playa Del Rey, CA
90293

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https://defendballonawetlands.org/

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What about Ballona? Is it protected?

There is so much wildlife at the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve. The Flora & Fauna ~ as well as the open spaces ~ are what motivated the public to work so hard to protect this land, including about 400 acres of land that, as of the 1995-2002 time period, was scheduled to be bulldozed and become part of the Playa Vista development. The public ultimately persuaded the State of California to acquire about 640 acres of land ~ mostly with bond money used by the Wildlife Conservation Board. Now ~ that land, and these wild animals and plants are threatened with a terribly destructive project that would harm and kill wildlife, mechanically alter the terrain and re-make the wilds of Ballona into something more manicured and out of alignment with the wildlife that requires the current mosaic of habitats to survive. Please help protect the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve ~ and when you hear the word “restoration” - remember, it’s really a bulldozing plan that would upset the current equilibrium and kill thousands of animals.