As the only non-profit organization dedicated to restoration & stewardship of San Francisco’s natural heritage, Nature in the City plays a critical role in securing our city’s wildlands for future generations.

With its diverse neighborhood villages and tremendous

grassroots energy, San Francisco has unparalleled potential

to restore healthy relationships between people and the

nature where they live.

San Francisco's biodiversity and wildlife habitats are fragmented and severely impacted by invasive plants, insensitive uses, agency neglect, and a lack of awareness.

Kids and adults are increasingly disconnected from nature; global species extinction proceeds at an epic pace.

* Become a member!

* Volunteer to do habitat restoration

* Plant a wildlife-friendly backyard

* Advocate that City officials take care of San

Francisco's nature and natural areas.

Native wildflowers in the Coast Guard grassland on Yerba Buena Island

The Ecology of San Francisco

Wild Nature in the City

Imagine the city of San Francisco from above, painted upon the ancient peninsula, transforming and fragmenting the natural landscape into disconnected ecological islands. Despite urban development, the city harbors its own local ecology, including a great biodiversity of birds, reptiles & amphibians, mammals, and butterflies. These wild creatures endure in precious and vulnerable native habitats and natural areas. Our urban nature and rich natural heritage is magnificent, but it is imperiled.

Local Environmental Crisis

Consensus has emerged that Earth is warming rapidly toward a potential global climate catastrophe. San Francisco is located in a global biodiversity hotspot, harboring myriad rare and threatened habitats for endangered plants and animals, and the wild nature of San Francisco is experiencing its own environmental crisis:

·The City's watersheds and biodiversity are fragmented and severely impacted by invasive plants, ecologically insensitive uses, and public and institutional lack of awareness;
· In the modern world, opportunities for people, our children, to connect with nature are elusive; our culture is becoming increasingly disconnected and disassociated from nature. 

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Imagine the future city of San Francisco when our rare critters and their habitats are conserved for generations within an ecologically sustainable network of restored watersheds and wildlife corridors. 

As San Franciscans, we can celebrate our indigenous habitats and natural areas. We must also activate. We can and we must restore ecological integrity to the City's wildlands and biodiversity, and play our role in helping the globe. Many other urban places do not have the fortune of San Francisco - we can connect with nature where we live by stewarding nature in the city.

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Save Our State Parks!!

[For current information and updates, please visit the California State Parks Foundation and the Save Our State Parks websites!]

To catch up, please check our our newsletter archive, where you will find a number of newsletters and action alerts about the state parks crisis.

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