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Our Year in Review magazines highlight the latest challenges and successes in threatened and endangered species recovery that we share with our conservations partners across the southern and central California coast. Learn about our team and our work.

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front cover of a magazine featuring a dark colored salamander with yellow spots

This year was packed with incredible conservation wins, field successes, and heartwarming stories. And we've captured it all in our 2024 Year in Review magazine. Explore the stories that shaped our year.

Una salamandra marrón con manchas amarillas por todo su cuerpo sobre un fondo blanco. Foto cortesía de Joel Sartore/National Geographic

La Oficina para Peces y Vida Silvestre Ventura presenta su Resumen del Año 2024, una revista que resume lo más sobresaliente de este año para la recuperación de especies amenazadas.  

Two black-footed ferrets poke their heads out of black pipes lying in tall grass to examine the photographer
Here you can find resources from across the Fish and Wildlife Service about threatened or endangered species.
An illustration of a California condor

Join us as we take a look back at some of our biggest highlights of this past year. Our Year in Review magazine contains a closer look at the milestones, achievements, and inspiring stories that shaped our year. We're so excited to see what 2024 has in store! Click here for the 508 accessible...

An illustration of a California condor

Join us as we take a look back at some of the highlights from this past year. Explore our Year in Review magazine for an inside look at the milestones, achievements, and inspiring stories that shaped our year. We're so excited to see what 2024 has in store!

The cover of a newsletter with an image of a woman holding a salamander and smiling. The US Fish and Wildlife Service is in the top left corner, along with the words "Ventura Fish and Wildlife Office Central and Southern California Coast." A blue box in the bottom left corner says "Stories from the Field Summer 2023 Newsletter. We invite you to read and share our stories about the native and rare wildlife of the southern and central California coast"

We invite you to read the latest edition of "Stories from the Field,” a summer newsletter from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Ventura Fish and Wildlife Office. Inside you will find stories about the native and rare wildlife of the southern and Central California coast, and the people...

The cover of a summer newsletter depicting a small plant with yellow flowers

We invite you to read the latest edition of "Stories from the Field,” a summer newsletter from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Ventura Fish and Wildlife Office. Inside you will find stories about the native and rare wildlife of the southern and Central California coast, and the people...

A girl admiring a monarch butterfly that is perched on a branch
A small turtle being held in a person's hand

Despite these trying times, the Ventura FWO mission holds fast: to conserve and recover rare fish, wildlife, and plant communities across the Southern and Central California coast from our beautiful coastal dune and sagebrush ecosystems to the rugged terrain of our chaparral and oak woodlands...

Magazine with bright green beetle on cover

As you turn the pages of our 2020 Year in Review, you will see inspirational conservation successes from the people of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and our partners who work to protect fish, wildlife, plants, and natural habitats of the central and Southern California coast. This year, we...

Magazine with California least tern (white bird) on cover

As you turn the pages of our 2019 Year in Review, you will see inspirational conservation successes from the people of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and our partners who work to protect fish, wildlife, plants, and natural habitats of the central and Southern California coast. This year, we...

Magazine with sea otters on cover

As you turn the pages of our 2018 Year in Review, you will see inspirational conservation successes from the people of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and our partners who work to protect fish, wildlife, plants, and natural habitats of the central and Southern California coast. This year, we...

Magazine with small bird (western snowy plover) in sand on cover

We pride ourselves in solid science as we work with our partners to move the conservation needle forward for the benefit of the fish, wildlife, plants, habitats, and people of the central and southern California coast. This year, we have many successes to celebrate.

For the first time...

Magazine with two island foxes nuzzling on cover

We pride ourselves in solid science to support decision-making with regards to all facets of the Endangered Species Act. This year, we announced science-based listing decisions for a suite of species in our area, from two Pacific seabirds that evaded the endangered species list due to proactive...