Ballona Wetlands

The fireworks threat is growing in California, endangering people, companion animals, and wildlife while safe alternatives like drone shows wait to replace them. Participants in UnchainedTV's Emergency Town Hall to End Fireworks Los [...]

Fireworks must end now. The carnage of July 4th, 2025, has laid bare a truth we can no longer ignore: fireworks—all fireworks, not merely illegal ones—are destructive relics whose time has passed. Los Angeles, July [...]

BIPOC leaders organize news conference against bulldozing Ballona Wetlands. Activists in Black, Indigenous and Latinx communities are condemning the State of California's plan to spend half a million dollars on a public relations [...]

Gentle Restoration Proposed for Ballona Wetlands on LA's Coast! Op-Ed by Marcia Hanscom of Defend Ballona Wetlands and The Ballona Institute Community leaders and environmentalists have risen up in opposition to a massive bulldozing project [...]

POLICE CALLED ON CLIMATE ACTIVIST On Monday, October 5th, LA City Council candidate and climate activist Molly Basler was threatened with possible arrest as she stood on public property and aimed her cellphone camera at [...]

Tule Elk are dying of thirst at Point Reyes National  Tule Elk are dying of thirst at a national park maintained with our tax dollars. Critics say the National Park Service is well aware, refuses [...]

OUTRAGE GROWING OVER PLAN TO BULLDOZE BALLONA WETLANDS ECOLOGICAL RESERVE Outrage is growing over a controversial plan to bulldoze LA's last coastal wetlands, 640 acres that is home to almost 2,000 species of wild animals [...]

A tidal wave of opposition is rising up against a reckless plan to destroy LA's last coastal wetlands, 640 acres known as the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve in the Playa del Rey neighborhood! Watch this [...]

A growing number of animal welfare, environmental and conservation organizations are denouncing a controversial plan to spend 200 million dollars and 9 years bulldozing LA's Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve, located in the neighborhood of Playa [...]

#JaneUnChained #LIVE with a report on the uproar over a plan to bulldoze Ballona Wetlands and call it “restoration.” This is the last real sliver of  wetlands left in Los Angeles county! JOIN OPPOSITION AT THIS [...]