10 Ways We Can Protect Biodiversity From Home

  1. Create a wildlife friendly backyard by planting native plants and trees and by attracting birds with feeders. Replacing grass lawns with native wildflowers and shrubs will increase your properties natural beauty while attracting local wildlife. National Wildlife Federation backyard program , Natural Resources Conservation Service backyard conservation , Audubon healthy backyard.
  2. Reduce the use of pesticides on your lawn and in your garden.
  3. Get involved with ecological restoration in your community.
  4. Buying organic food helps reduce the use of pesticides elsewhere
  5. Buy sustainably harvested seafood.
  6. Reduce your home energy consumption and incorporate renewable energy/energy efficiency into your home to reduce your impact on global climate change, which threatens biodiversity.
  7. Switch to “tree-free billing,” instead of wasting paper, pay online.
  8. Buy local honey. Around the country small local beekeepers are reporting huge losses of bee populations.
  9. Help butterflies by purchasing milkweed seeds from Monarch Watch website.
  10. Contact your Representative your Senators and The President about the issues and your feelings on them.

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