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This Is It! Your Action NOW Is Urgently Needed

By admin on September 29, 2014 in Campaign Updates, Featured on Homepage, Nature & Wildlife, Oakland Politics

As you know, the zoo’s plan to use the most environmentally sensitive areas of the park that are located on the ridgeline is now running into trouble. Because the destruction of wildlife habitat is so severe and permanent, the wildlife regulators are requiring the zoo to make up for it by setting aside more than 50 additional acres of land. So, the zoo wants to take (for free) even more of our public Knowland Park (land that is already protected as parkland under the Deed of Transfer). This land would have all public access removed from it. This fiasco, as the Sierra Club said, has “gone from bad to worse.” Continue Reading →

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Sierra Club Expresses Serious Concerns about Zoo Expansion Location

By admin on August 1, 2014 in Campaign Updates, Featured on Homepage, Nature & Wildlife, Opinions & Editorials

Oakland Zoo’s proposed expansion into Knowland Park goes from bad to worse

July 28, 2014

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The Sierra Club has grown increasingly concerned about the California Trails exhibit that the Oakland Zoo proposes to build on the ridge line of Knowland Park. The City of Oakland approved the fifty-six-acre project in 2011 on a fifteen-year-old Mitigated Negative Declaration. Since then, however, the permitting agencies have provided significant pushback to the zoo’s claim that the project would have no significant environmental impacts. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) recommended that the project be built within the zoo’s existing footprint to avoid significant impacts to rare plant communities and to the threatened Alameda whipsnake. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), meanwhile, sent the zoo’s application back to the drawing board, noting that the project is at best conceptual. Continue Reading →

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Oakland Magazine covers Knowland Park Fight, and Other Updates

By admin on July 21, 2014 in Campaign Updates, Featured on Homepage, Oakland Politics

Looking west at sunset from the area the zoo wants to fence in

Looking west at sunset over the area the zoo wants to fence in

News Updates:

Oakland Magazine covers Knowland Park Fight Did you see the recent article in Oakland Magazine about Knowland Park and the fight to save it? If you missed it, read it here: http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/Oakland-Magazine/July-2014/Conservationists-and-Zoo-Spar-Over-Knowland-Park/ Continue Reading →

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Snakes, Lies, and Cutting Red Tape: How the Oakland Zoo is Gaming the System

By admin on May 7, 2014 in Campaign Updates, Featured on Homepage, Nature & Wildlife, Oakland Politics, Uncategorized

Earth Day demonstration against the Zoo’s Proposal - Photo by Karen Smith

Earth Day demonstration against the Zoo’s latest proposal - Photo by Karen Smith

It is difficult to imagine the Oakland Zoo proposing anything more outrageous than their plan to build an environmentally destructive “conservation” exhibit on the richest and most sensitive lands in Knowland Park, but in their latest proposal the preposterous trumps the outrageous. The upshot of their bold move toward endgame is that not only would the public lose far more park land than initially approved, but all public access to the very best native plant habitat in the park would be legally barred forever. Continue Reading →

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