About This Website

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This website was created by Mihir and Ameet. Our passion for wildlife drove us to see the world; we now utilize the Internet to reach people across the globe and share this with them. This is one way that we can contribute to the preservation of the natural world which has provided us so much fun, adventure and opportunity to learn.

The idea for these kinds of websites - San Francisco Bay Area Wildlife, Yucatan Wildlife and Peru Wildlife - was born out of necessity. As we were doing research for our spring 2005 trip to the Yucatan peninsula, we found out that it was difficult to get advance information to help plan the trip. The information on the Web was hard to find and scattered across many sources. The good information was mixed up with lots of not-so-good stuff. We found something similar as we planned a trip to Peru.

This website - San Francisco Bay Area Wildlife - is focused on an area closer to home. It is intended to be a portal to useful and selected information about the wonderful wildlife of the San Francisco Bay Area. These pages are not expected to replace all the good information that is already out there - and more is being added all the time. But they should provide a great starting point for an exciting journey into the natural world of the Bay area.

Associates

We would like to acknowledge the help of a few people who have helped with the website or events:

Carlos Garcia - San Francisco Garter Snake page
Taylor King - Western Swallowtail Butterfly page, Las Trampas page
Sohan Shah - Martinez Beaver Festival booth dury
Maya Rahkonen - Online marketing
Anisha Narayan - blog post, Lime Ridge page
Alice Cavette - Insects page
Lalitha - Wildlife Education Day booth duty and Reptiles page
Ralph Albert (Wildlife Education Day booth duty)
Vivek Damodaran (Wildlife Education Day booth duty)

If You Want to Help

We are looking for sub-editors for various sections of the site. If you are interested in topics covered here and would like to get involved, please get in touch by with some details about yourself and your background. Also take a look at the internship opportunities. We look forward to hearing from you.

Events

We participated in Martinez Beaver Festival, organized by Worth a Dam, 6 August 2011.
Ameet presented at the monthly meeting of the Stevens & Permanente Creeks Watershed Council, 1 June 2011.
We participated in Earth Week Faire, at Foothill College, organized by Gillian Schultz and the Sustainability Group, 20 April, 2011. Read the blog post ...link
We participated in Wildlife Eduction Day, organized by Santa Clara Valley Audubon, 23 Oct 2010. Read the blog post ...link