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Barbra Streisand is giving up her multimillion-dollar California estate for the good of the birds and the bees. The singer-actress-director donated her 24-acre estate to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy for use as an environmental research center and retreat. The land is "the most valuable ever donated" to the public agency, said executive director Joseph T. Edmiston. The estate in Ramirez Canyon, which includes four homes and a caretaker's residence, will become the site of the Streisand Center for Conservancy Studies. The property had been on the market for several years, with a top listing of $25 million and the last listing at $19.5 million.