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2025 Annual Teacher Toolkit: Pelican Edition

Our 2025 Pelican Teacher Toolkit is filled with surprising facts, captivating projects, and enriching lesson plans suitable for students in grades K-8. Sign up today to get access.

Earth Honoree 2025: Brown Pelican

Meet the brown pelican, this year’s Earth Honoree! A local icon, these incredible seabirds are known for their plunge-diving, large throat pouch, and resilience.

From the Field: Volunteers & Trash Results

March 2025 Site Reports

Volunteers stepped up their game in March with some sites nearing or exceeding 100 volunteers. How lucky are we? With newly installed native plants at […]

February 2025 Site Reports

During this special “month of love,” our naturalist Julie asked volunteers to handwrite love letters to the ocean on paper hearts. Unsurprisingly, the notes were […]

January 2025 Site Reports

The first month of 2025 has come to a close. Mother nature gifted us with fairly warm, sunny, and dry conditions in January, which inspired […]

Education Corner: For Home & Classrooms

2025 Annual Teacher Toolkit: Pelican Edition

Our 2025 Pelican Teacher Toolkit is filled with surprising facts, captivating projects, and enriching lesson plans suitable for students in grades K-8. Sign up today to get access.

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When you join the award-winning Pacific Beach Coalition, you're a part of something special.

We’re a volunteer-driven community of Earth Heroes inspired by kindred spirit and collective passion for protecting and preserving our ocean, beaches, creeks, wildlife and native habitat. Together, we're growing as a powerful force for positive change recognized as a community-centered model leading sustainable environmental stewardship among all ages through advocacy, education, community building and citizen action in the Bay Area.

You, too, can lead positive change. Throughout the year, we host field and education programs connecting thousands who care for our environment. You can clean beaches, restore habitats, advocate, become a member, organize events, donate, join a committee, become a student liaison, lend your skills, share your talent … all while learning more about protecting our coastal environment.

Learn more about us and how we have been achieving our mission since 1997!

Pacific Beach Coalition is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.