URBAN WILDLIFE ORDINANCE
SUPERFISKY provided specialized urban ecological expertise to the City of Los Angeles’ Wildlife Pilot Study and proposed Wildlife Ordinance between 2019 and 2025, which was an effort to identify ecologically important areas within the City of LA and propose a set of land use regulations to balance development with wildlife habitat and connectivity.
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[FEBRUARY 2021] Members of the Department of City Planning conduct a Wildlife Pilot Study to gather information about the flora and fauna co-existing with development in Los Angeles.
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[APRIL 2021] Councilmember Koretz and the Department of City Planning take extra steps to ensure that urban development plans for the city grow in concert with the conservation of wildlife.
PANEL ON URBAN WILDLIFE CORRIDORS
In July 2021, the UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge released its Ecosystem Health Report Card for Los Angeles County, which dedicated a chapter to Land Use and Habitat Quality that covered habitat connectivity and fragmentation throughout the region. The report card found that only 57% of critical habitat corridors in the county are protected, and recommended policy to increase that protection to 100% to ensure no more extinction in one of the nation’s only biodiversity hotspots.
In September of 2021, SUPERFISKY participated in a panel hosted by the UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge on Los Angeles wildlife corridors and the pending Wildlife Ordinance, which was developed to balance wildlife habitat and connectivity with private property development in Los Angeles.