Understand
A species rarely disappears alone: a plant depends on an insect, an insect on a habitat, a bird on that insect. Which is why the loss shows up late, through what follows rather than what is taken. And the main cause is not hunting, it is habitat going away. A habitat cut into pieces by a road or a subdivision becomes unusable long before it is gone.
Take action
- If you have a cat, keep it indoors or supervised outside. It is the single gesture that spares the most birds, and it depends only on you.
- Make your windows visible to birds, markings on the outer pane are enough to prevent collisions.
- If you have a balcony or a patch of ground, leave one quiet zone: tall grass, fallen leaves, a woodpile. That is shelter, not neglect.
- Don't move a plant or an animal from one place to another, however good the intention. That is how invasive species travel.
- Don't buy wild animals or souvenirs made from a species. With no buyer, the trade stops.
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Myth and reality
"There's still nature right next door, so species have somewhere to go."
A green space is not a habitat if it is too small, too isolated or cut off by a road. Many species need to move to feed and breed: two separate fragments are not worth one continuous habitat of the same area.