Mission Blue Butterfly’s PBC Earth Honoree 2022 With most of its grassland habitat lost to development, the mission blue (Icaricia icarioides missionensis) became one of the first insects was added to the Federal Endangered Species List in 1976, and is protected under the Endangered Species Act. How to Recognize a Mission Blue On the upperside of the wings, the adult female […]
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Our Site Captains Frank, Myla, Gail and Jr Site Captain Aisling reported a beautiful day on December 18th. We had 13 volunteers, including some students volunteers from Oceana High School come out and help us clean Esplanade Beach! Our PBC volunteers picked up a total of 24 pounds of trash, 6 pounds of recycling, and 492 cigarette butts ready to […]
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On this very warm and sunny day at Esplanade Beach we are grateful for our volunteers. We had 27 volunteers show up for the ocean and picked up a total of 72 pounds of trash, 20 pounds of recycling, 1 pound of compost along with a whopping 1,389 cigarette butts ! We also had some really interesting finds, one group […]
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It was a beautiful fall morning with a warm southern breeze to partner with Corona beer company (21yo+) and Oceanic Global to cleanup Sharp Park Beach. Today with the help of 39 volunteers we collected 68 lbs of trash, 8 lbs of recycling and 1,838 cigarette butts ! A great contribution to our October Butt Blitz – let’s beat the […]
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We are so grateful to host such a huge group of volunteers from Ideaya Biosciences who joined our naturalist Danila on October 6 for a clean up at Linda Mar Beach . What amazing teamwork was displayed on this day! With laser focus, the team collected a whopping 56 pounds of trash, 8 pounds of recyclables and 1252 cigarette filters!! Remember […]
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Meet our newest members, from co-executive directors to marketing specialists and naturalists.
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Big kudos to the 20 volunteers, who collected 70 lbs trash, 1500 cigarette butts, and 1 lb recyclables!
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It was a beautiful clear sunny morning today for a beach cleanup at Linda Mar! 30 volunteers to help us pick 40 lbs of trash and 13 lbs of recycling.
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34 volunteers came to our first monthly beach cleanup after COVID-19 shelter-in-place.
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1 year later: 5,189 volunteers, 25,000 lbs of trash and nearly 1,000 hours of community service hours approved!
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