Building Bridges for Our Shared Future
#SaveLACougars and the #P22Legacy
Now through the end of the year!
double your impact: up to $500K matched
FROM NICOLE PIUZE WILSON, M PIUZE FOUNDATION PRESIDENT: The M Piuze Foundation has dedicated itself to protecting wildlife for the past two decades. Having raised a family in the Santa Monica Mountains, my late father, Mike Piuze, partnered with Beth Pratt and the NWF team since the beginning of this Wildlife Crossing project. My family and I are continuing in this support, not only because this crossing is in our backyard but because it embodies the values that are important to us and addresses one of the biggest challenges facing wildlife today. Around the world, connectivity issues for wildlife urgently require corridors and crossings like this. We are offering to match all donations up to $500,000 through the end of the year made to the #SaveLACougars campaign.
donations of $500 or More
Now in the legacy phase of this monumental effort, the #SaveLACougars campaign seeks to raise $15 million that will:
Ensure the holistic completion of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing as a fully integrated and thriving habitat that reconnects an entire ecosystem in the Santa Monica Mountains, including completing design and construction (slated for end of 2025), habitat stewardship, native plant nursery operations, education and outreach, and supporting National Park Service research efforts.
Advance future wildlife crossings and connectivity projects in Southern California that will continue to reconnect critical wildlife corridors and restore the ecological vibrancy of the country’s most densely populated urban area – a conservation legacy of the century.
There’s a reason I wanted to support this crossing and issue this challenge: We need to move beyond mere conservation, toward a kind of environmental rejuvenation. Wildlife crossings are powerfully effective at doing just that — restoring ecosystems that have been fractured and disrupted. It’s a way of saying, there are solutions to our deepest ecological challenges, and this is the kind of fresh new thinking that will get us there.
– Wallis Annenberg, Chairman, President, and CEO of the Annenberg Foundation
Prefer to donate by Check?
Make your check out to National Wildlife Federation with #SaveLACougars in the memo line. Mail your check to National Wildlife Federation, Will Casey, 11100 Wildlife Center Drive, Reston, VA 20190.
National Wildlife Federation EIN: 53-0204616
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All proceeds support #SaveLACougars and the #P22Legacy. Strut around town in your “homeboy” t-shirt or stay hydrated with a stainless steel water bottle. We have something for all the mountain lion fans in your life! These gifts showcase cougar pride and prove to be great conversation starters!
JOIN US IN MAKING HISTORY
Donations of $100,000 and above will receive recognition on our donor wall.
Additional naming and recognition opportunities are available for leadership level donations. Please contact Beth Pratt at prattb@nwf.org or (209) 620-6271.
The National Wildlife Federation’s #SaveLACougars campaign has inspired a global conversation toward a new way of doing business – revolutionizing the possibilities for wildlife conservation around the world for decades to come. Together, we raised over $100 million to ensure the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing became a reality. Help us honor P-22’s Legacy and secure an additional $15 million toward a new connected Southern California.
We invite you to join us in a conservation legacy of the century.
