A Winning Partnership

A new approach was created in 1991 with the formation of the California Biodiversity Council The council consists of more than two dozen federal and state natural resources agencies, the University of California, county boards of supervisors, and resource conservation districts. They are signatories to an unprecedented agreement committing themselves to cooperate, communicate, and foster regional efforts to promote biodiversity conservation.

For the first time, these local, state, and federal agencies and the other partners in the council have teamed up to conserve biodiversity across administrative boundaries. Hand-in-hand with conservation is the cultivation of compatible economic development carried out in such a way that it balances the needs of all species.

A number of bioregional grassroot groups have formed to balance biodiversity conservation with community and economic stability. The groups consist of local citizens and public officials acting on a volunteer basis.

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