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Backyard Habita Gardening

Garden for Wildlife Get useful information and tips for creating and maintaining a Certified Wildlife Habitat.

Information and Tips for Creating and Maintaining a Certified Wildlife Habitat. These documents are in Adobe PDF format.

Breathing Places is a major BBC Learning campaign to inspire and motivate you to create and care for nature-friendly green spaces where you live.

Attracting backyard birds and butterflies for bird watching Establishing a small wildlife sanctuary in your backyard will reward you by attracting a variety of birds and butterflies for you to enjoy viewing. Many will visit, and some may actually stay to nest and rear their young in your backyard. You will want to create a yard or garden that will attract birds and butterflies and make them feel at home.

The Suburban Habitat site focuses on the home environment as an opportunity to cultivate a home ecosystem, with featured links on water, food, shelter, biobalance, harmony, tools, recycling and habitat development. The site emphasizes development of a balanced ecosystem in home gardening, including integrated pest management and preference of natural solutions over chemical warfare and other ecologically disruptive solutions.

Backyard Conservation" shows you how conservation practices that are used on agricultural land across the country to conserve and improve natural resources can be adapted for use on the land around your home. These practices help the environment and can make your yard more attractive and enjoyable.

NWF: Native Plants - information from the National Wildlife Federation encouraging the public to grow more native plants in their gardens.

Journey North: Unpave the Way for Wildlife - illustrates how creating backyard refuges can help people ensure that the annual migrations of birds and butterflies through their regions continue.

WindStar Wildlife Institute - teaches people how to attract more wildlife to their property.

Wild Ones We promote the establishment of native communities around homes and businesses, using ecologically sound practices.

Habitat Gardening Club of Central New York: A Wild Ones Chapter Habitat gardening is gardening to provide habitat for wildlife ... but also to create a more interesting, healthier environment for people!

About.com: Backyard Habitat Shows how to make a home for birds, butterflies, and nature's other creatures.

Backyard Wildlife Habitat The official site from the National Wildlife Federation. Serves as guide for creating a thriving backyard wildlife habitat.

Backyard Wildlife Habitat Learn about landscaping for wildlife.

Backyard Wildlife: Planting for Habitat This site provides information on planning and planting for a wildlife habitat in the backyard.

Create a Backyard Habitat Points to sites that describe how to manipulate your yard into a garden that provides essential resources for different kinds of wildlife, such as birds, butterflies, small mammals, and other creatures.

eNature: Backyard Wildlife Habitat This site offers tips for attracting more birds, butterflies, and other creatures to your backyard.

Florida Wildlife Federation: Backyard Wildlife Habitat Program Working to promote and expand gardening for wildlife in Florida.

Gardening for Wildlife A collection of articles from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden addressing how to attract birds, butterflies, and other creatures to your garden.

West Virginia About Landscaping for Wildlife - Has information about West Virginia Wild Yards Program as well as butterfly gardening, native plant sources, and providing habitat for birds.

Landscaping for Backyard Wildlife Missouri's great patchwork of prairies, streams, forest, glades, savannas and wetlands provide habitat for thousands of native plants and animals. Since European settlement, however, larger and larger pieces of this patchwork have been altered to provide habitat for just one animal: people.

Habitat Gardening in Central New York In Habitat Gardening in Central New York, we learn from Central New York experts and from each other about such topics as:

National Zoo: Wildlife Gardening A good site that discusses how making small adjustments to your outdoor space will let you support wildlife.

Texas Wildscapes Habitat restoration and conservation plan that enables Texans to contribute to wildlife conservation by developing wildlife habitats where they live and work.

Wikipedia: Wildlife Gardening A school of gardening that is aimed at creating an environment that is attractive to various forms of wildlife.

Natural History Museum: Wildlife Garden A living exhibition featuring the sights, sounds, and smells of the countryside.