Project Pollinator
The Challenge
Habitat for native wildlife is dwindling at an alarming rate. This affects biodiversity, including migratory birds, pollinators, and bat species. Los Angeles is located within a biodiversity hotspot that is also an ever-growing urban setting, with shrinking natural spaces and less native habitats available for wildlife. The challenge: How can Angelenos help native wildlife in an urban environment? The solution: Create more native habitats where Angelenos live — in an open space on your property, balcony, or windowsill. Everyone can be a part of this solution!
The Solution: Sowing Change
The Los Angeles Zoo’s Project Pollinator creates native habitat and serves as an example of the simple steps Angelenos can take in their homes and communities to support and create native habitats for songbirds, migratory birds, butterflies, bees, bats, and other species. These pollinators are crucial to the day-to-day life of our planet.
As program partners in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Saving Animals From Extinction (SAFE) programs for North American songbirds and North American monarch butterflies, the Los Angeles Zoo is working to achieve the objectives of these programs, including widespread distribution of native and monarch-safe plants, increasing native habitat for pollinator and migratory species, and promoting community science as a monitoring tool. As part of this effort, the Zoo is not only creating new and updated native habitats around the Zoo and Griffith Park, but also empowering Angelenos and other visitors to the Zoo to take actions to support pollinators in their communities.
Learn more about Project Pollinator at the Zoo and how to create a thriving biome for native pollinators.
Gardens
The L.A. Zoo has created several examples of native habitat for pollinators both at the Zoo and around L.A.
Resources
Find out how you can help create and maintain a native habitat for pollinators in Los Angeles.
Partners
Project Pollinator is a collaboration between the L.A. Zoo, other City departments, and non-profit partners to support local biodiversity.