Two thirds of the people experiencing homelessness in California are unsheltered and the high cost of living in many cities makes it worse.

Decades of fire suppression is causing blazes to burn hotter and under more hostile conditions, destroying once fire resistant forests, and a condition made worse by the climate crisis.

Urbanization interrupts what used to be large areas of wildlife habitat leaving smaller unconnected areas that limit food, shelter, and reproductive success for terrestrial wildlife species.

Plastic pollution, which carries toxins that harm people too, is killing California’s ocean wildlife including sea turtles, whales, seabirds and fish, and destroying once pristine coastal environments.

More than half the 400,000 farm workers in California are undocumented making them even more vulnerable to harsh conditions such as dangerous heat and employer retaliation for reporting broken laws.