Unplug appliances and chargers when not in use to eliminate electricity bleeding. You can also consider joining a community solar program or adding solar technology to your home or business. Respect wild animals by keeping a safe distance away, not approaching them, and not removing them from their environment. If you find young animals, particularly in the spring, do not handle them.
Mothers often leave young for extended periods to forage. Although the young may appear to be abandoned, the mother will almost certainly return within 24 hours, and handling the young puts them in danger. If you encounter an injured wild animal, contact a certified animal rescuer in your area.
Be An Educated Consumer Think before you buy: Choose products that are energy efficient, durable, made from sustainable sources, and sustainably packaged. Avoid products that harm animals and habitats, such as gas-guzzling vehicles, disposable plastics and plastic microbeads, paper products not made from recycled paper, products grown with pesticides, and products made with palm oil.
Also avoid products that test on animals and contain animal parts or derivatives. Never buy exotic animals, particularly those who were wild-caught, and never purchase parts and products made from wildlife, including souvenirs. Do not buy clothing or other products that use fur or feathers. Support genuine efforts that keep wildlife in the wild, such as ecotourism, photo safaris, or community-based humane education programs. Eat less meat, particularly beef. Cattle ranching destroys native vegetation, requires enormous amounts of water, damages soil, often results in lethal control of native predators, contaminates waterways, and produces methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
Globally, conversion of forest to rangeland for cattle is one of the leading causes of biodiversity loss. Learn About Imperiled Species and their Habitats Learn about the threats faced by threatened and endangered species.
Teach your friends and family about endangered species and other animals that live near you. Visit a national wildlife refuge, park, or other open space and learn about the threatened and endangered species and other animals who live there. Stay informed and support policies that keep these areas wild and protect native species. Teachers: Help spread awareness in your own classroom about endangered species with our educational poster.
Protect Endangered Species The Endangered Species Act is an effective safety net for imperiled species—extinction has been prevented for more than 98 percent of the animals under its care. Urge your elected officials to preserve the important safeguards in the Act. Let your legislators, as well as your state wildlife agency, know that you support a prohibition on the use of cruel traps and snares in your state and across the country.
Next, document and report your findings to your local humane society and AWI. Such information will aid our efforts to pass laws that ban inhumane traps and snares.
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Text on this page is printable and can be used according to our Terms of Service. Any interactives on this page can only be played while you are visiting our website. You cannot download interactives. Poaching is the illegal trafficking and killing of wildlife. With more tigers kept captive than living wild, the scope of poaching can not be overstated. Prices for Asian tropical hardwoods like rosewood have risen as much as 90 percent in just the last year. In each case, conserving the plant and animal resources requires fighting market forces, such as placing a ban on ivory sales and restrictions on logging exports.
Rising standards of living in developing countries drives demand for meat production, as more people can afford to eat meat. This raises demands on natural resources to produce meat. For example, the United States could feed million people with the grains it uses to feed its livestock.
As a product of that, humans destroy more natural ecosystems to accommodate the demand for meat. Choosing to eat less meat in one's diet would reduce the demands on all of the required resources, from food to water to space, used to produce it. Sometimes, a good idea brings unintended consequences in the complexity of Earth's natural environment. Hydroelectric dams generate electricity from the energy of flowing water — by itself, that sounds good, since it reduces the use of fossil fuels.
But dams also block fish migration routes. Wind turbines generate electricity without pollution, but there's considerable debate about how many birds they kill.
A century of policies to extinguish forest fires in the western United States led to forests full of fuel, and massive fires as a result. Each example shows how manipulating the environment can involve a trade-off between benefits and harm to plants and animals.
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