I’m a big proponent of getting people involved in conservation and wildlife stewardship.  Sometimes it means picking up trash and debris on our beaches while other times it requires us to become a bit more boisterous and take an active role as our cities expand.  And one quote says it all…

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Edmund Burke

Over at Ecosystem Gardening, Carole Brown is advocating for the exact same thing; the creation of wildlife habitat.  However, it involves a unique spin by getting people involved in converting their yards and properties into sustainable garden ecosystems.  And in an era when habitat loss and fragmentation are leading causes for the decline of biodiversity, our gardens may actually play a vital role in the establishment of much needed wildlife corridors.  Thus, I was excited and flattered when Carole asked if I wanted to address the topic with a guest post.

Here is an excerpt to get you started but wander on over and check out my post “Combating Habitat Fragmentation with Garden Corridors.”

Individually our eco-friendly gardens may be an island refuge, but when linked together with other sustainable landscapes we effectively create much needed wildlife corridor routes.  In the classic sense, these corridor routes provide a means by which animals may move with minimal resistance between two geographic locations.

But, on a local level corridors provide suburban, urban and rural passageways in which species can travel from one habitat to another or from one isolated fragment of original territory to the next.  We cannot eliminate urban sprawl, but we can certainly try to mitigate the consequences.

Tags: ecosystem gardening, habitat fragmentation, Wildlife corridors

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