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Join ReWild at City Hall This Wednesday the 11th

It’s been a few months since we checked in with you about the ReWild Mission Bay campaign. It’s been longer since we asked something of you, our ReWild supporters. We could use the ReWild Coalition‘s support this Wednesday, March 11, at 8 a.m. outside City Hall in Civic Center Plaza at 202 West C St. […]

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San Diego Audubon Welcomes New Executive Director Travis Kemnitz

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Feb. 11, 2020 San Diego, Calif. – The San Diego Audubon Society is pleased to announce Travis Kemnitz has been hired as the organization’s new executive director, successfully concluding a lengthy, comprehensive recruitment process. Kemnitz takes over from long-time San Diego Audubon executive director Chris Redfern, who recently relocated with his family to […]

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Another Memorable Love Your Wetlands Day

Thanks to everyone who stopped by Kendall-Frost Marsh Reserve last Saturday, Feb. 1st, for the 15th annual Love Your Wetlands Day, presented by San Diego Audubon and the UC Natural Reserve System. Over 450 of our San Diego neighbors joined us at three locations around the marsh for a day of exploration, education, and conservation, including walks […]

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Love Your Wetlands Day Is This Saturday

We’re just a few hours away from the 2020 Love Your Wetlands Day, our annual celebration of Kendall-Frost Marsh Reserve along Mission Bay, happening Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you haven’t already registered to attend, make plans now to join San Diego Audubon and the UC Natural Reserve System for our 15th […]

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A Busy, Consequential Year for ReWild Mission Bay

In no small measure, 2019 was a big year for the ReWild Mission Bay campaign. Over the last 12 months we’ve built some political acumen in spite of setbacks at City Hall, and we continue to add partners to one of the most impressive conservation coalitions in San Diego. In fact, during in the last six […]

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San Diego Labor, Faith, and Public Health Watchdog Organizations Join ReWild Coalition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dec. 10, 2019 San Diego, Calif. – The San Diego Audubon Society, with significant input from the ReWild Mission Bay Coalition, is pleased to announce five new community organizations have either joined our coalition, or submitted letters of support in our effort to restore native wetlands in northeast Mission Bay over the past month, […]

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Restoring Wetland Habitat May Help Reverse “Staggering” Extinction Rate for Birds

With the state’s recent bout of wildfires in October, you may have missed a pair of landmark studies released to the public around that same time, detailing a calamitous decline in bird populations and the increased threat of extinction to hundreds of birds due to our warming climate. One of the reports is from the Cornell Lab […]

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San Diego Audubon Secures Key Concessions on De Anza Leases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Oct. 9, 2019 San Diego, Calif. – The San Diego Audubon Society with significant input from the ReWild Mission Bay Coalition are pleased to announce an agreement with Campland and the City of San Diego that guarantees a pair of key components as part of Campland’s expanded leases in northeast Mission Bay: The new […]

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Global Climate Walkout at Kendall-Frost Marsh

We’ve never seen anything like it at the marsh. First a few bicyclists arrived, then the echoes of chants and drums, and then a mammoth line of students, teachers, parents, neighbors, future voters and climate activists lining up block after block across Pacific Beach to arrive at Kendall-Frost Marsh Reserve. We were expecting a few dozen […]

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Clairemont Town Council Endorses “Wildest” Option

Great news as the Clairemont Town Council has endorsed ReWild Mission Bay’s “Wildest” option for wetland restoration in the northeast corner of Mission Bay. Citing a loss of native wetland habitat and the expected sea level rise by 2100, the Clairemont Town Council noted in their Sept. 17 letter to San Diego City Council that […]