Construction Begins on the Annenberg Wildlife Crossing
Construction has officially begun on the Annenberg Wildlife Crossing! Annenberg Foundation staff were on hand to kick off the start of construction, as Caltrans crews started grazing a hillside in Agoura Hills to build what will be the world’s largest animal crossing. When completed, the crossing will stretch across ten lanes of the 101 Freeway and […]
California Animal Welfare Funders Collaborative Supports 19 Organizations
The Annenberg Foundation is proud to be a partner in the California Animal Welfare Funders Collaborative (CAWFC), along with Wallis Annenberg PetSpace, Best Friends Animal Society, California Community Foundation, California for All Animals, Maddie’s Fund®, and Michelson Found Animals Foundation. In CAWFC’s latest effort to support animal welfare and improve dog and cat lifesaving initiatives across the state, the […]
Groundbreaking for the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing Makes Headlines
Photo by Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing was in the media spotlight for its official groundbreaking on Earth Day. Construction will now begin on the world’s largest animal crossing and outlets across the country and across the globe featured the story. The LA Times outlined the benefit the crossing […]
To Protect Wildlife, LA Times Calls for More Projects like the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing
Citing the growing need for safe passage for Southern California wildlife, the LA Times Editorial Board calls for more projects like the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, which will break ground April 22. The crossing will provide safe passage across the busy 101 freeway in Agoura Hills. The Editorial Board cited the recent death of a […]
Caltrans Projected to Break Ground on Wildlife Bridge Over 101 Freeway in January 2022
The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and Caltrans recently announced that they are breaking ground for the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing in early 2022. The wildlife crossing at Liberty Canyon over the 101 Freeway will reconnect a long-fragmented ecosystem and a biodiversity hotspot, and help protect the endangered mountain lion population and other wildlife that make their […]
New Director Named for Wallis Annenberg PetSpace
Wallis Annenberg PetSpace, a unique community space in Los Angeles that focuses on the mutually beneficial and dynamic bond between people and their pets, as well as the origins and science of that relationship, has named animal welfare leader Gabrielle Amster as its new director. Amster brings to Annenberg PetSpace more than 15 years […]
Saving Cougars from Oblivion on California Freeways
Wallis Annenberg and the Annenberg Foundation were recently featured in the Los Angeles Times for their extremely forward-thinking Conservation Challenge Grant to help develop the largest urban wildlife crossing in the world. The Conservation Challenge Grant, also the largest of its kind, is a record-breaking $25 million and “serves as a ‘Call to Philanthropists’ to help protect a threatened […]
NWF Receives Record $25 Million Annenberg Challenge Grant for Largest Urban Wildlife Crossing in the World
NWF Receives Record $25 Million Annenberg Challenge Grant for Largest Urban Wildlife Crossing in the World NWF Receives Record $25 Million Annenberg Challenge Grant for Largest Urban Wildlife Crossing in the World A record $25 million conservation challenge grant from Wallis Annenberg and the Annenberg Foundation to the National Wildlife Federation’s #SaveLACougars campaign to build […]
Pioneering PetSpace Collaboration Analyzes Variability in Human-Interaction Research
Members of the Wallis Annenberg PetSpace Leadership Institute advanced the body of research on human-animal interaction through the publishing of a new study in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science. It is the first of 14 planned articles emerging from the convening of the Leadership Insitute, which aims to contribute to the current […]
Wallis Annenberg in Los Angeles Magazine: After the Pandemic, Fostering Pets Should Be the New Normal
The community-wide disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has put a strain on so many vital services, including animal fostering and adoption. But the crisis has revealed opportunity, as well — something Annenberg Foundation Chairman and CEO Wallis Annenberg expressed in a hopeful editorial for Los Angeles Magazine: For the animals, the benefits are without question. […]