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The Culver City Police Department is asking for Volunteers to join the Wildlife Watch Program.

The first meeting will be July 11th 7:00pm, @ the Culver City Police Department.

The Mission of Wildlife Watch is to establish a comprehensive, integrated management strategy for minimizing human-wildlife conflicts and improving the quality of life in urban settings. The approach applies conservation and ecological principles, agency and community leadership coaching and respect for wildlife and one another.

Wildlife Watch is a multi-agency partnership program that provides support and training to local governments and community groups to help them design and implement their own nuisance wildlife action plans.

The program is intended to reduce human-wildlife conflicts in California’s urban environments by empowering local governments and community groups to proactively address, prevent and manage nuisance wildlife issues in their own neighborhoods.

The program is modeled after the very successful Neighborhood Watch program, in which residents, in coordination with their local law enforcement agencies, join forces to monitor their own communities to prevent crimes from occurring. In the Wildlife Watch program residents join forces with their city and county governments to identify and eliminate wildlife attractants, such as pet food, trash and hiding places, in order to keep wildlife in the wild where they belong.

The program is sponsored by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) but is ultimately run and maintained by a network of committed agencies, community groups and individuals who have completed the Wildlife Watch training. The goal is to empower local governments and community groups to take responsibility to reduce human-wildlife conflicts in their own neighborhoods.

For questions please contact Lt. Kellum @ (310) 253-6251