As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:
(a) “Acquisition” means the acquiring of any interest in real property.
(b) “Fund” means the Wildlife and Natural Areas Conservation Fund created pursuant to Section 2720.
(c) “Highly rare” means a worldwide rarity in which any species or natural community occurs in 50 or fewer locations, irrespective of whether the species or any species in the community is listed as threatened or endangered or was previously listed as rare.
(d) “Natural community” means a distinct, identifiable, and recurring association of plants and animals that are ecologically interrelated.
(e) “Species” means the fundamental biological unit of plant and animal classification that comprises a subdivision of a genus, but for the purposes of this chapter, “species” also includes the unit of a subspecies.
(Added June 7, 1988, by initiative Proposition 70. Operative November 9, 1988, by Sec. 4 of Prop. 70.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018