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Creating Places for Wildlife is a series of courses that teaches you how to attract a wide variety of wildlife to your backyard, to a schoolyard, or to an area in your community. There are seven courses in the series. Each course contains online presentations, downloadable study guides, and recommended activities.
- Habitat Basics is the best place to start! This course teaches you about basic concepts that are used throughout the other courses. You will learn about many different topics, such as the importance of native plants.
- Providing Food for Wildlife discusses the food chain and how you can provide food for wildlife species in your area.
- Providing Water for Wildlife teaches you the importance of water for your habitat and identifies easy ways to provide it appropriately.
- Providing Cover for Wildlife gives you practical ways to provide cover and shelter for a variety of different wildlife species throughout the seasons.
- Providing Places to Raise Young introduces you to the importance of spaces for wildlife to mate and bear young and offers some suggestions for creating these spaces in your habitat.
- Sustainable Gardening Practices is all about things you can do that are good for your garden and for wildlife. Topics include organic gardening, composting, and water conservation.
- Overview of the Backyard Wildlife HabitatTM and Schoolyard Habitats® programs provides you with information about each of these national programs and the resources they can offer as you learn more. You will want to know all about these programs, because creating places for wildlife can become a hobby that you enjoy with your friends and family.
The online portion of each course takes approximately 30 minutes to complete. There are also hands-on learning activities for each course. These activities provide ways to do fun, practical things to attract the wildlife that you want to see. The activities get you out into your community to interact with the environment in beneficial ways. You'll be amazed to learn that the actions you take every day can have positive impacts on the wildlife in your region, your state and even beyond the United States' borders!
You may also be interested to know that if you participate in these programs you can receive credits that apply towards an undergraduate or graduate degree, continuing education units (CEUs), or service learning credits. Click here to learn more about earning credit.
You can apply your courses to NWF volunteer training. More than 140 volunteers have participated recently. Become one of them and spread the word in your community!
Whether you want to work on building and creating new habitats in your community or teach others how to build a habitat, we have a volunteer opportunity for you. You can get started right away as a volunteer. Click here to learn how to become a Habitat Ambassador.
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