The Natural Habitat Action Group works to develop and support creative methods of preserving natural habitat, and of increasing biodiversity in the developed areas of Claremont.

Natural habitat is a resource which is more limited than any other. Many methods exist to address water, energy, and pollution issues, but the only way to prevent the loss of natural habitat and the biodiversity it includes is to protect it from development.

Nothing people can make is as sustainable as the natural ecosystems that have evolved in an area. Native organisms and their interactions are adapted to local water conditions, are based on solar energy, remove carbon dioxide from the air, prevent erosion, pollinate our garden plants and collect rainwater and return it, cleaned, to underground aquifers. This is true for all ecosystems, including our local coastal sage scrub habitat which is one of the most endangered in the world, disappearing at four times the rate of rainforest.

Humanity depends on the diversity of the organisms surrounding us, for food, medicine and quality of life. Simple self-preservation dictates that we should do everything possible to maintain existing habitats so we do not lose future opportunities to improve our existence.