San Diego Habitat Conservancy

SDHC is working with key stakeholders and expanding our network to include entities not only in San Diego County, but in San Bernardino County and beyond. SDHC is approved by the California Department of Fish & Wildlife to hold and manage mitigation lands in Region 5 (San Diego County). SDHC is applying to receive this approval for Regions 4 and 6 and will ultimately seek approval for all of California. SDHC received accreditation with the Land Trust Accreditation Commission in February 2016. The accreditation process has strengthened SDHC and shows to the nation that SDHC has met the highest standards for managing and protecting land in perpetuity.

One of only a few nonprofit habitat managers in the San Diego region working with developers, municipalities, and agencies to strike a critical balance between development and the protection of our valuable habitat. - Manages approximately 1800 acres of open space habitat helping to provide a contiguous corridor of native habitats, vital to supporting natural resources that are considered important to our local ecosystem and that provide vital habitat for numerous endangered and threatened plants and animals. - Provides outreach to neighboring communities in order to instill a sense of stewardship, educate them about the resources being protected, and the role protecting such resources plays in regional conservation efforts.

SDHC's progress will be measured by the organization's ability to continuing increasing our land management portfolio, and expanding outside of San Diego County into the surrounding region, including San Bernardino County and beyond. SDHC's progress with our education and outreach will be measured by increasing and strengthening our programs and therefore increasing the number of organizations with which we collaborate, increasing grant funding, and increasing the number of students and members of the public that we reach with our message of supporting conservation and increased biodiversity.

SDHC continues to increase our land management portfolio by not only increasing the number of acres we manage, but increasing the types of habitats that we manage, increasing the variety of plant and animal species we manage, expanding our presence to additional cities within San Diego County and to counties other than San Diego County, such as Riverside County. Additionally, in the past year SDHC has hired a full-time Assistant Habitat Manager, added members to our Board of Directors, and started collaborating with a number of local nonprofits for outreach and education events.