Nature's Action Guide: How to Support Biodiversity and Your Local Ecosystem

Previously published as Nature’s Action Guide: A Companion to Doug Tallamy’s Nature’s Best Hope by Sarah F. Jayne.Transform your space into a thriving, biodiverse habitat and make a positive impact on the looming biodiversity crisis. Are you ready to take action?Make a lasting impact on the environment and create a healthier, more biodiverse ecosystem with Nature's Action Guide: How to Support Biodiversity and Your Local Ecosystem. This comprehensive guide offers practical, cost-conscious, toward zero-waste solutions to help protect wildlife and preserve our planet.Nature's Action Guide features fifteen urgently needed actions to create healthy, functioning ecosystems where you live, work, and play. Each action includes an action checklist, step-by-step instructions, recommended resources, and informative tips.Nature’s Action Guide is an ideal resource for everyone—gardeners and non-gardeners alike. Take action everywhere—in your yard or apartment balcony, on a farm, or wherever you live, work or play!Develop a practical, natural, and beautiful vision for your spaceGet to know the keystone plants that support wildlifeLearn to identify the invasive plants that threaten biodiversityProvide nesting habitat and a sequence of blooms for pollinatorsCreate pupation sites and plant host plants that support caterpillarsInclude water features and protect the watershedManage your space in ways that protect bees, butterflies, birds, and other wildlifeInspire neighborhood acceptance for nature's natural lookLimited space or no green thumb? City dwellers and non-gardeners can take important actions to support biodiversity:Reduce night lightMark windows to safeguard birdsPrevent animal entrapmentUse nontoxic home and yard productsMany more DIY actions that make a positive impact on the environmentIllustrated with over 750 color photos and diagrams, Nature’s Action Guide will help you to take action to restore biodiversity and local abundance while we still can. Read more