Blog: Protecting California’s aquatic biodiversity in a time of crisis
A major response to the state’s biodiversity challenge has been the California Biodiversity Initiative of 2018, which was supported by Governor Brown and continues to be supported by Governor Newsom. … However, it also has a major flaw: it is so focused on terrestrial ecosystems and native plants that it overlooks the needs of native aquatic (freshwater) species, habitats, and ecosystems. California’s aquatic biodiversity is particularly imperiled, as it is worldwide…