- Backyard Wildlife Habitat
Official site from the National Wildlife Federation. Serves as guide for creating a thriving backyard wildlife habitat.
www.nwf.org/backyardwildlifehabitat
- My Backyard Wildlife Habitat
Place where birds, butterflies, bees, chipmunks, and other little creatures can find food, water, cover, and a place to raise their young. Located in Syracuse in Central New York.
home.twcny.rr.com/allenz
- Nature: Secret Garden
Documents the biodiversity and daily drama that takes place within the fences of a respectable garden.
www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/secretgarden/index.html
- WindStar Wildlife Institute
Teaches people how to attract more wildlife to their property.
www.windstar.org
- BBC Breathing Places
Learn about Breathing Places, a major BBC learning campaign to inspire and motivate people to create and care for nature-friendly green spaces where they live.
www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces
- About.com: Backyard Habitat
How to make a home for birds, butterflies, and nature's other creatures.
birding.about.com/library/blbackyardhabitat.htm
- Yahoo! Groups: Wildlife Gardens
Directory of groups dedicated to creating wildlife, bird, and butterfly gardens. Also lists groups interested in gardening with native wildflowers.
dir.groups.yahoo.com/dir/Family___Home/Home_and_Garden/Gardening/Wildlife_G...
- Journey North: Unpave the Way for Wildlife
Illustrates how creating backyard refuges can help people ensure that the annual migrations of birds and butterflies through their regions continue.
www.learner.org/jnorth/unpave
- Gardening for Wildlife
Collection of articles from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden addressing how to attract birds, butterflies, and other creatures to your garden.
www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/wildlife
- Garden Bench, The
Devoted to backyard habitats and wildlife gardening. Shows how to create an attractive garden that can support and sustain wildlife.
www.thegardenbench.com
- Create a Backyard Habitat
Points to sites that describe how to manipulate your yard into a garden that provides essential resources for different kinds of wildlife, such as birds, butterflies, small mammals, and other creatures.
birdwebsite.com/backyard.htm
- Wildlifeforever.net
Offering guidance on creating and maintaining a garden for wildlife conservation. Includes galleries, wildlife news, and more.
www.wildlifeforever.net
- Space for Nature
Wildlife gardening forum featuring galleries, news, and diaries for people who want to create a garden that will attract hoverflies, birds, and other important critters.
www.wildlife-gardening.org.uk
- Missouri Department of Conservation: Landscaping for Backyard Wildlife
By providing sources of food, water, and cover, people can turn their yards into lively places full of songbirds, toads and frogs, butterflies, and other wildlife.
mdc.mo.gov/nathis/backyard
- National Zoo: Wildlife Gardening
Discusses how making small adjustments to your outdoor space will let you support wildlife.
nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/BackyardBiology/WildlifeGardening/default.cfm
- Backyard Conservation
Looks at how conservation practices that are used on agricultural land across the country to conserve and improve natural resources can be adapted for use on the land around your home. From the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
www.nrcs.usda.gov/feature/backyard
- Backyard Wildlife Habitat.info
Learn about landscaping for wildlife. Offers tips for attracting songbirds, hummingbirds, frogs, small mammals, butterflies, and other beneficial insects.
www.backyardwildlifehabitat.info
- Space For Nature
Garden biodiversity forum focusing on wildlife gardening and gardens. Space For Nature includes photo galleries of various birds, insects, and garden projects along with tops and reference links.
www.spacefornature.co.uk
- West Virginia DNR: About Landscaping for Wildlife
Features information about West Virginia Wild Yards Program as well as butterfly gardening, native plant sources, and providing habitat for birds.
www.wvdnr.gov/wildlife/landscape.shtm
- GardenGuides: Gardening for Wildlife
Article discussing how to plan a backyard habitat: providing water, shelter, and food.
www.gardenguides.com/articles/wildlifehabitat.htm
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