One Ride at a Time Programs

When you ride the bus and donate to our nonprofit partners through One Ride at a Time, your actions help save wildlife and protect critical habitat in the Monterey Bay region.

Whale Rescue Program

Donations to Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Foundation will support efforts to rescue whales entangled in fishing gear and other marine debris. The Foundation helps train rescuers, provides equipment and access to rescue vessels, as well as supports entanglement prevention efforts like developing fishing gear innovations and marine debris cleanups.

The Whale Rescue Program is one of many ways the Foundation realizes its vision of a healthy Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary recognized as a national treasure for its unique and abundant biodiversity, and widespread community support.

To learn more, visit https://montereybayfoundation.org/our-work/

Mountain Lion Habitat Conservation

The Bay of Life Fund supports the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County with their work to ensure a future for mountain lions by establishing habitat corridors including highway underpasses and overpasses at critical spots where these big cats need to be able to cross our busy roads without getting killed.

The Land Trust of Santa Cruz is dedicated to protecting, caring for, and connecting people to the extraordinary lands and species that make the Monterey Bay region special. To date, the Land Trust has preserved more than 14,000 acres of land in Santa Cruz County, thus protecting water supplies, wildlife habitats and open space.

To learn more, visit https://www.landtrustsantacruz.org/galleries/highway-17/

Sea Otter Protection

Donations to Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Foundation will support efforts to protect marine life, including endangered sea otters. The Foundation helps to fund trained volunteer naturalists to educate humans about getting too close to sensitive wildlife, works to protect coastal habitats, and removes marine debris from the ocean.

Marine mammal protection is one of many ways the Foundation realizes its vision of a healthy Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary recognized as a national treasure for its unique and abundant biodiversity, and widespread community support.

To learn more, visit https://montereybay.noaa.gov/educate/to/welcome.html

Redwood Preservation

The Bay of Life Fund supports the work of the Sempervirens Fund, whose efforts safeguard redwood forests in the Santa Cruz Mountains, ensuring they will never be developed, degraded, or destroyed.

Sempervirens Fund, California’s first land trust, has protected more than 56 square miles of redwood-forested land in the Santa Cruz mountains and helped establish three state and two regional parks since it was established in 1900. Today, it owns and cares for 11,000 acres of critical redwood habitat.

To learn more, visit https://sempervirens.org/protect/santa-cruz-mountains/