California 30x30 – CA Nature
The State of California is committed to conserving 30 percent of its lands and coastal waters by 2030 to protect the State's extraordinary biodiversity while simultaneously mitigating and building resilience to climate change and improving equitable access to the state’s parks, open space, and natural amenities. This goal led the State to develop innovative spatial solutions that give agencies, organizations, and communities access to authoritative information needed to enhance biodiversity protection, provide equitable access to natural and open space for all, and respond to climate change. Explore CA Nature at
www.californianature.ca.gov to see how the State is using an online GIS experience to bring together a broad range of communities.
• The California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) is building apps and dashboards to help us meet our 30x30 goals. Meeting these goals will require us all to work together around the available tools and resources that create the common understanding that we need for the future of California.
• CA Nature is foundational to the state’s 30x30 and National Climate Change Strategies. Partnerships across Federal, Private Sector, NGO, Local/Regional Governments are essential to conserving 30% of our lands by 2030.
• California is rich in biodiversity. The Department of Fish and Wildlife combines datasets from contributors across the state into the Areas of Conservation Emphasis to examine the richness of native species across a range of biodiversity layers. With the biodiversity explorer, we can also better understand how we are protecting conifer woodlands, by viewing relationships across the state.
• The Climate Explorer helps to visualize the effects of climate change and resulting temperature variations across the state.
• One of the goals of the 30x30 initiative is to ensure equitable access to lands. CA Nature’s Access Explorer can help communities understand proximity of access to open spaces and conserved lands to determine where to act.
• CA Nature was built to empower citizens to explore and take action where overlapping opportunities present themselves. With the democratization of data and analytics, CA Nature enables everyone with internet access to build their own scenarios, highlight their own priorities and share interpretive maps with their own stakeholders.