Simple Tips
You depend on biodiversity; Biodiversity depends on you!
Here are simple ways you can make a difference. Choose one you can start doing today!
1. Make wildlife welcome
Support the birds, reptiles, mammals, and plants that live in your neighborhood. You can also attract more wild species by providing water, food, shelter, and privacy.
2. Protect habitats
Explore habitats in your area. Help clean up and protect beaches, parks, reserves, and fields where wild plants and animals live.
3. Volunteer your time
Find out about environmental organizations in your area. Maybe you can help care for injured animals, clean up a habitat, or even answer the phone!
4. Harness your pet
If your house pet runs loose it is considered to be an invasive species. In the United States alone, it is estimated that 44 million free-roaming cats kill 4.4 million songbirds every day.
5. Be a smart shopper
Buy things you really need—not just want—so you don't waste Earth's resources on unnecessary items. Shop for good quality, so you can use toys, clothes, and supplies many times, then pass them on to someone else. When you travel, avoid buying souvenirs that cost an animal its life or might have harmed a habitat.
6. Reduce, Reuse
If you choose not to turn on a light, you save energy. If you reuse a jacket handed down by a brother or sister, you've saved all the resources that would have gone into a new jacket. When you recycle, you save energy, electricity, water, and many other resources, too. Earth-keepers always remember the 3 Rs!
7. Leave wild things alone
Watch wild things, but don't bring them home. Plants and animals often die outside their habitats. Even if they live, they can't reproduce or do their "jobs" in the natural world.
8. Learn about other cultures
What you do and what you buy can affect other people around the world. Learn about other cultures to discover some new ways to help biodiversity.
9. Save our forests
Buy wood and wood products that are produced in a sustainable legal source. Support those suppliers who are doing it right and get your wooden products from them. Use 100% recycled paper and save 24 trees per tonne of paper.
10. Buy sustainable seafood
Choose fish that are sustainably caught, and avoid endangered such as Bluefin Tuna or Northsea cod. Buy fish with the blue MSC ( Marine Stewardship Council) logo to make sure you are buying sustainable seafood.
11. Be a role model
Kindly show your friends and family how to take care of the Earth. Soon, they'll want to be like you!
Here are simple ways you can make a difference. Choose one you can start doing today!
1. Make wildlife welcome
Support the birds, reptiles, mammals, and plants that live in your neighborhood. You can also attract more wild species by providing water, food, shelter, and privacy.
2. Protect habitats
Explore habitats in your area. Help clean up and protect beaches, parks, reserves, and fields where wild plants and animals live.
3. Volunteer your time
Find out about environmental organizations in your area. Maybe you can help care for injured animals, clean up a habitat, or even answer the phone!
4. Harness your pet
If your house pet runs loose it is considered to be an invasive species. In the United States alone, it is estimated that 44 million free-roaming cats kill 4.4 million songbirds every day.
5. Be a smart shopper
Buy things you really need—not just want—so you don't waste Earth's resources on unnecessary items. Shop for good quality, so you can use toys, clothes, and supplies many times, then pass them on to someone else. When you travel, avoid buying souvenirs that cost an animal its life or might have harmed a habitat.
6. Reduce, Reuse
If you choose not to turn on a light, you save energy. If you reuse a jacket handed down by a brother or sister, you've saved all the resources that would have gone into a new jacket. When you recycle, you save energy, electricity, water, and many other resources, too. Earth-keepers always remember the 3 Rs!
7. Leave wild things alone
Watch wild things, but don't bring them home. Plants and animals often die outside their habitats. Even if they live, they can't reproduce or do their "jobs" in the natural world.
8. Learn about other cultures
What you do and what you buy can affect other people around the world. Learn about other cultures to discover some new ways to help biodiversity.
9. Save our forests
Buy wood and wood products that are produced in a sustainable legal source. Support those suppliers who are doing it right and get your wooden products from them. Use 100% recycled paper and save 24 trees per tonne of paper.
10. Buy sustainable seafood
Choose fish that are sustainably caught, and avoid endangered such as Bluefin Tuna or Northsea cod. Buy fish with the blue MSC ( Marine Stewardship Council) logo to make sure you are buying sustainable seafood.
11. Be a role model
Kindly show your friends and family how to take care of the Earth. Soon, they'll want to be like you!