Community Wildlife Habitat™

Complete Your Annual Post-Certification Goals

Once your hard work has paid off and your community becomes an official Community Wildlife Habitat site, you can keep your Community Wildlife Habitat Team and community members engaged with post-certification goals such as continuing education classes, certifying additional habitats and partnership opportunities with other NWF programs.

In order to keep your community actively engaged in its Community Wildlife Habitat project, we require the Community Wildlife Habitat Team and community members to participate in post-certification activities and submit yearly updates to us.

To keep your Community Wildlife Habitat status, your team must continue earning a minimum of 40 points per year for communities with population greater than 5,000 and 30 points per year for communities smaller than 5,000.

Points	Activity
Required	Submit yearly post-certification update forms
10	Secure a feature article in the local media about your project
10	Maintain information kiosk or website established during certification stage
10	Continued hosting of annual event started during certification stage
5	Participate (through a booth) in a community event (up to three)
15	Host a Habitat Stewards training
5	Participate in a quarterly Community Wildlife Habitat conference call (up to 4)
10	Host a garden tour that features Certified Wildlife Habitat sites
10	Have the college/university associated with your community become involved in the Campus Ecology program
10	Continue regular column in your community paper/newsletter to educate community members about your project
5	Deliver an oral presentation at a community group not yet associated with your project (i.e. Garden club, HOA) (up to 6)
5	Have member of habitat team serve on a community committee or board that addresses community environment issues
10	Examine your community's weed ordinances, and work to change them to be more native plant and habitat friendly
10	Host a workshop to educate builders and developers in your community about what they can do to conserve habitat during the site selection, planning, and conservation phases of their projects.
10	Work with local park agencies to convert parkland to wildlife friendly landscapes.
1	Each additional home, townhome or apartment certified as a Certified Wildlife Habitat site
3	Each community site certified as a Certified Wildlife Habitat site
5	Each Schoolyard Habitats site certified