There are many things that everyone can personally do to help conservation on a large or small scale. Off course you can donate money to organisations to help with habitat protection, breeding programs or reintroduction programs. Many organisations are also grateful of volunteers to go out and help with projects. However there are many much smaller things that everyone can do to help from home. Helping try and increase species diversity and save endangered species locally is just as important as the more charismatic large scale projects. Planting wild flowers in a garden can help attract wildlife and increase natural species numbers. Planting or looking after only native species is also beneficial as foreign species can sometimes out compete native species if they are introduced. While checking where your food and any products are produced can help as buying more locally produced products will help reduce the demand for habitat destruction to produce large scale farms etc. Reducing energy consumption will also reduce demand on resources and so help protect habitats¹. Small changes at home can make a huge difference to species numbers and their success.
1. http://animals.about.com/od/wildlifeconservation/tp/helping_endangered_species.htm
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