This web hub was created to help UCLA and the community easily find resources and organizations to support protecting and enhancing nature in the Los Angeles area. Topics range from parks to school greening, native plant landscaping, nature-based solutions, and biodiversity plans and policies.
Please send any feedback or additional resources for consideration to sustainability@ucla.edu
- Global biodiversity targets: https://www.cbd.int/gbf/targets
- California 30×30 program: https://www.californianature.ca.gov/
- LA County Biodiversity Motion: https://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/supdocs/209826.pdf
- LA County Community Forest Management Plan: https://cfmp.lacounty.gov/
- Our County Sustainability Plan: https://ourcountyla.lacounty.gov/
- Mayor Bass’ Climate Action Plan for Los Angeles: https://plan.mayor.lacity.gov/
Urban Forest and Tree Resources
- LA City Office of Forest Management: https://dpw.lacity.gov/commissioners-boardroom/office-city-forest-management
- Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance resources on protected tree ordinance: https://www.ncsa.la/protected_tree_ordinance
- City Plants: https://www.cityplants.org/
- LASAN Tree Program: https://tinyurl.com/LASANTreePlanting
- LA County Tree Hub: https://trees-lacounty.hub.arcgis.com/
- LA tree map (site will be transitioned to new platform): https://losangelesca.treekeepersoftware.com/
- Other tree giveaway programs: https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2024-09-26/where-to-get-free-trees-in-los-angeles-and-orange-counties
- How to plant a tree in English and Spanish
- Tree People learning resources: https://treepeople.org/learn/
- Audubon Guide to Bird Friendly Tree Trimming: https://www.audubon.org/california/news/guide-bird-friendly-tree-trimming
- Tree Care for Birds (best practices and classes for tree trimmers): https://treecareforbirds.com/
Native Plant and Landscaping Resources
- Theodore Payne Classes: https://theodorepayne.org/learn/classes-workshops/
- NCSA Lawn to Habitat: https://www.ncsa.la/lawn_to_habitat
- Free classes through LADWP and MWD: https://www.ladwp.com/residential-services/programs-and-rebates-residential/california-friendly%C2%AE-landscaping/landscape-training-classes
- LADWP Native Plant list for turf replacement design tool: https://www.ladwp.cafriendlylandscaping.com/listplants.php?index=7
- LADWP Turf Replacement Program: https://www.ladwp.com/who-we-are/water-system/water-conservation/turf-replacement-rebate
- LADWP LEAP (Landscape Efficiency Assistance Program): https://www.ladwp.com/residential-services/programs-and-rebates-residential/landscape-efficiency-assistance-program
- Native Plant Nursery directory (CNPS): https://calscape.org/california-nurseries
- Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance info about native plants: https://www.ncsa.la/resources_native_plants and problems with artificial turf: https://www.ncsa.la/artificial_turf
- LASAN: Low Impact Development
- 99 Neighborhoods Network – https://www.99nn.org/
- Accelerate Resilience L.A. – https://acceleratela.org/
- Altadena Green – https://www.altadenagreen.org/
- Amah Mutsun Land Trust – https://amlt.org/
- Amigos de los Rios – https://amigosdelosrios.org/
- Anawakalmekak – https://www.anawakalmekak.org/
- Aquarium of the Pacific – https://www.aquariumofpacific.org/
- BeeSip – https://beesip.com/
- California Global Biodiversity Alliance – https://calgba.org/
- California Native Plant Society – LA SMM- https://chapters.cnps.org/lasmm/
- Canyonback Alliance – https://canyonback.org/
- City Plants – https://www.cityplants.org/
- Coastal Lands Action Network – https://coastalactionnetwork.org/
- Conservation Lands Foundation – https://www.conservationlands.org/
- Council for Watershed Health – https://www.watershedhealth.org/
- Dominguez Dream Academy – https://www.dominguezdream.org/
- Environmental Justice Coalition for Water – https://ejcw.org/
- Esperanza Community Housing – https://www.esperanzacommunityhousing.org/
- Forward Alliance Los Angeles – https://forwardalliance.org/
- Friends of the LA River- http://folar.org/
- Friends of Griffith Park – https://friendsofgriffithpark.org/
- GROW/WILD by ShareWell – https://www.growwild.org/
- Heal the Bay – https://healthebay.org/
- Hispanic Access Foundation: Por La Creacion – https://www.hispanicaccess.org/what-we-do/initiatives/por-la-creacion-faith-based-alliance
- K-12 Alliance, WestEd – https://www.wested.org/support/k-12-alliance-ngss-science-institutes/
- Koreatown Youth and Community Center – https://www.kyccla.org/
- Kounkuey Design Initiative – https://kounkuey.org/
- LA Audubon – https://www.laaudubon.org/
- LA Compost – https://www.lacompost.org/
- LA Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance – https://www.ncsa.la/
- Los Angeles Center for Urban Natural Resource Sustainability https://laurbanresearchcenter.org/
- Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative – https://www.lani.org/
- Los Angeles Waterkeeper – https://www.lawaterkeeper.org/
- Metabolic Studio – https://metabolicstudio.org
- Native American Land Conservancy – https://www.nativelandconservancy.org/
- Natural History Museum of LA County – https://nhm.org/
- Nature for All – https://lanatureforall.org/
- Nature Nexus Institute – https://www.naturenexusinstitute.org/
- North East Trees – https://www.northeasttrees.org/
- Pacific Crest Trail Association – https://www.pcta.org/
- Pacoima Beautiful – https://www.pacoimabeautiful.org/
- Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy – https://pvplc.org/
- Pukúu Cultural Community Services – https://www.pukuu.org/
- Resilient Palisades – https://www.resilientpalisades.org/
- Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains (RCDSMM) – https://rcdsmm.org/
- Resources Legacy Fund – https://resourceslegacyfund.org/
- Rising Communities – https://risingcommunities.org/
- Safe Clean Water Program – https://safecleanwaterla.org/
- San Fernando Valley Audubon https://sfvaudubon.org/
- San Gabriel Valley Conservation Corps – https://www.sgvcorps.org/
- Santa Monica Great Park Coalition – https://greatparkcoalition.org/
- Santa Monica Mountains Fund – https://samofund.org/
- ShadeLA – https://shade-la.com/
- Sierra Club, Angeles Chapter – https://angeles.sierraclub.org
- Sierra Club, San Fernando Valley – https://www.sierraclub.org/angeles/san-fernando-valley-group
- Sky Valley Volunteers – https://www.skyvalleyvolunteers.org/
- South Central Youth Leadership Coalition – https://scylcfellowship.com/
- Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) – https://maps.scag.ca.gov/GRI/urbangreening/
- Southern California Watershed Alliance – https://www.c-win.org/everts
- The Council of Mexican Federations in North America (COFEM) – https://www.cofem.org/conservation
- The Nature Conservancy – https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/california/stories-in-california/urban-conservation-pioneering-solutions-in-los-angeles/
- The Wilderness Society – https://www.wilderness.org/
- Theodore Payne Foundation – https://theodorepayne.org/
- TreePeople – https://treepeople.org/
- Trout Unlimited South Coast Chapter – https://www.southcoasttu.com/
- Trust for Public Land – https://www.tpl.org/
- Tzicatl CDC – Chief Ya’anna Regenerative Learning Village – https://www.anawakalmekak.org/chief-yaanna-learning-village
- Tzicatl Community Development Corporation – https://tzicatl.org/
- UCANR Environmental Stewards – https://ucanr.edu/program/uc-environmental-stewards
- USGBC California – https://usgbc-ca.org/
- Verdant Venice Group (VVG) – https://verdantvenice.org/
- Western Conservation Foundation – https://www.wcfnd.org/
- Westwood Greenway – https://westwoodgreenway.org/
- West LA College – Case Studies in Environmental Science Data: https://levisimons.github.io/WLAC/
- Cal State LA Urban Ecology Center: https://www.calstatela.edu/nss/urban-ecology-center
- Loyola Marymount Center for Urban Resilience (CURes): https://academics.lmu.edu/cures/
- Loyola Marymount Urban Eco Lab: https://academics.lmu.edu/cures/partners/k12teachers/urbanecolab/
- Occidental College Moore Lab: https://moorelab.oxy.edu/
- Occidental College Urban and Environmental Policy Institute: https://www.oxy.edu/about-oxy/community-engagement/uepi
- UCLA Center for Developing Leadership in Science: https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/cdls/
- UCLA Ecological Medicine Initiative: https://reconnect.ucla.edu/
- UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science: https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/lakretz/
- UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation – Urban Greening: https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/urban-greening/
- UCLA Sage Hill: https://ioes.ucla.edu/sagehill