The San Fernando Valley spineflower, a tiny plant once believed extinct, has a promising future thanks to support from an unlikely source — a Southern California developer.
That developer, FivePoint Holdings, LLC, is working with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as well as other agencies to ensure that a plant found only two places in the world will continue to grow in its native habitat.

https://scvnews.com/2018/05/28/a-promising-future-for-a-california-plant-once-believed-extinct/