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As we head into Point Blue’s 60th year of work protecting our natural world, we will continue to expand our conservation and climate change solutions through a “Connected Conservation” approach. By leaning into strong relationships with scientists, educators, restorationists, policymakers, supporters, community members, and other partners, we will expand and enhance our solutions and deepen our conservation impact.

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“Connected Conservation” builds upon our strong foundation. Point Blue has made significant progress in climate-smart conservation over the past five years, in collaboration with our supporters and partners:

• Thanks to a $25 million four-year grant from California’s Wildlife Conservation Board, and through our leadership of the Sierra Meadows Partnership, we dramatically scaled up restoration of Sierra Meadows. We are now restoring 7,000 acres at over 60 mountain meadows involving over 50 partners.
• Through a separate $26 million 4-year grant from the California Wildlife Conservation Board, we launched The Roots Program to develop and implement projects and distribute grants that create wildlife habitat while promoting equity and resilience on California’s farms, ranches, and other working landscapes. In our first year, we supported 66 restoration projects with an additional 41 in development.
• Our Students and Teachers Restoring A Watershed program (STRAW) celebrated its 30th anniversary, expanding into the Northern Sierra and the East Bay, managing three native plant nurseries, and stewarding the Novato Baylands, planting nearly 12,000 plants in a year!

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• Our Working Lands program added six new staff covering an additional 12 counties through its Partner Biologist program. The team monitored birds and ecosystem health and developed thousands of conservation plans for private farms, ranches, and forests in 34 California counties. Supported by more than $15 million in funding, these efforts have conserved over 1.2 million acres of privately stewarded agricultural land, enhancing biodiversity and implementing climate-smart practices across California’s working landscapes.
• Our Oceans team contributed and evaluated strategies to decrease whale deaths within national marine sanctuary regions, reducing deadly collisions with cargo ships by up to 57%, and provided recommendations to state and federal bodies to help ensure offshore wind energy areas are developed with minimal impacts to the marine environment.

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  Building on over 13 years of success through our Migratory Shorebird Project, we launched MSP+ Science to Action. This new grantmaking program to support shorebird and wetland conservation in Latin America issued eight grants to partners in seven different countries.

• Across seven US states, our Soils program has trained technical assistance providers and developed and implemented our innovative Agricultural Carbon Monitoring Program to evaluate conservation management practices on farms and ranches. This included close collaboration with our Informatics team to build novel tools to store data, model, and predict conservation impacts into the future.
• We expanded the Point Blue Science Cloud, our best-in-class data management platform, through which we partner with and store ecological data for agencies like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of Defense (training 345 of their staff thus far). This data supports conservation actions to protect species of concern and enhance habitat management efforts, demonstrating the platform’s role in achieving national to international data-driven conservation outcomes.

By deepening partnerships with state agencies to support California’s 30×30 conservation goal and actively participating in global biodiversity and climate conferences like the October 2024 United Nations COP16 in Cali, Colombia, we are enhancing Point Blue’s conservation impact locally and sharing California’s successes globally.

As we amplify our impact through “Connected Conservation”, your support will enable us to forge more of the connections needed to fight climate change and biodiversity loss to secure a healthier future for us all. Thank you for making a year-end gift!

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