Califauna - Explore.Create.Act: California Wildlife In Danger

About Califauna

The goal of Califauna is to bring art education and ecological awareness to California students, elementary through high school; community groups and senior centers. Califauna will provide vital information about maintaining California’s beaches, deserts, and forests; native animals and the effects of urban sprawl and global warming on our surroundings, through the arts.

Califauna is a nonprofit project and operates under the guidance of the Pasadena Arts Council, a 501(c)(3) Organization. All donations to Califauna are tax deductible. We need your help! Your donations will help us develop
programs and get them into our local schools.

Make checks payable to the Pasadena Arts Council and send to:Califauna
63 E. Sierra Madre Blvd Unit A
Sierra Madre, CA 91024

The Bobcat

With a gray to brown coat, whiskered face, and black-tufted ears, the Bobcat resembles the other species of the mid-sized Lynx genus. It is smaller than the Canadian Lynx, with whom it shares parts of its range, but about twice as large as the domestic cat. It has distinctive black bars on its forelegs and a black-tipped, stubby tail, from which it derives its name.
Though the Bobcat prefers rabbits and hares, it will hunt anything from insects and small rodents to deer. Prey selection depends on location and habitat, season, and abundance. Like most cats, the Bobcat is territorial and largely solitary, although there is some overlap in home ranges. It uses several methods to mark its territorial boundaries, including claw marks and deposits of urine or feces. The Bobcat breeds from winter into the spring and has a gestation period of about two months.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

California Wildlife In Danger

"California is the "wildlife state." It boasts more species than any other, as well as the greatest number of endemics, those species found nowhere else. This extraordinary biodiversity is already stressed by the state's enormous human population and further threatened by continuing rapid population growth and development."

This is the opening line to an article in the Daily News that came out yesterday. It demonstrates why I have started Califauna, to educate our youth on the need to care for our environment, forests, mountains and deserts, for all of our natural areas and all that lives there. Go to the Daily News to read the entire article California's status as 'wildlife state' threatened by growing population by Leon Kolankiewicz. We simply cannot continue to destroy habitat in the name of progress. Something has to be done to stop rampant development in rural areas and instead invest in redeveloping urban areas so that our states rich wildlife can thrive.