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Restore wildlife habitat, reduce pollution, and manage stormwater with your own landscape in the St. Louis region.
Resources to help you enhance the quality of your landscape as wildife habitat and qualify for certification in the Bring Conservation Home program.
Resources to help you enhance the quality of your landscape as wildife habitat and qualify for certification in the Bring Conservation Home program.
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Where would you like to begin?
Where would you like to begin?
What is "Ecological Landscaping"?
What is "Ecological Landscaping"?
Ecological Landscaping, sometimes called "Naturescaping," is an approach to the choices that we make with our own outdoor space that prioritizes the health of the ecosystem.
Why Ecological Landscaping Is Important
Why Ecological Landscaping Is Important
In recent decades we have seen a troubling decline in biodiversity on our planet, beginning with insects which are the foundation of our entire ecosystem.
All evidence indicates that we are in the midsts of a mass extinction event caused primarily by human activity. For example, in the last 50 years, one in four birds in North America has disappeared.
All evidence indicates that we are in the midsts of a mass extinction event caused primarily by human activity. For example, in the last 50 years, one in four birds in North America has disappeared.
Death by a thousand cuts: Global threats to insect diversity. Stressors from 10 o'clock to 3 o'clock anchor to climate change. Featured insects: Regal fritillary (Speyeria idalia) (Center), rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) (Center Right), and Puritan tiger beetle (Cicindela puritana) (Bottom). Each is an imperiled insect that represents a larger lineage that includes many International Union for Conservation of Nature "red list" species (i.e., globally extinct, endangered, and threatened species). Illustration: Virginia R. Wagner (artist).
We can be part of the solution!
We can be part of the solution!
There are a number of things we can do to regenerate biodiversity. With some fairly simple changes to our own landscaping choices, we can do our part to reduce habitat loss, climate change, introduced species, pesticides and light pollution.
There are a number of things we can do to regenerate biodiversity. With some fairly simple changes to our own landscaping choices, we can do our part to reduce habitat loss, climate change, introduced species, pesticides and light pollution.
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