CHAPTER 3 Engage Your Environment: Your Community as Wildlife Habitat How does y
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CHAPTER 3 Engage Your Environment: Your Community as Wildlife Habitat How does your campus or community rate as wildlife habitat? Explore your campus or community while noting the food, water, shelter, and space necessary for maintaining insects, birds, and other small animals. In this Engage Your Environment activity you will determine ways in which your campus could better support animal life. How does your campus or community rate as a habitat for wildlife? Learning Objectives You will: 1. Evaluate your campus or community as a wildlife habitat. The area you select should be between ¼ and 1 acre in size. 2. Propose and prioritize three improvements to this habitat. Resource Wildlife habitat checklist (see Results) Introduction Providing food, water, shelter, and space for wildlife will allow a surprisingly large number of insects, birds, and other small animals to coexist with humans. Background Questions A1. What evidence is there of insects, birds, and other small animals around campus or community? A2. What is the predominant type of land use surrounding campus or community? Land uses include residential, commercial, retail, industrial, etc.
Explanation / Answer
Every wildlife species requires a general environment to live.To properly manage land for the benefit of wildlife,the landowners must be aware of those things in the environment which that wildlife would need to survive and reproduce.Habitat is called the natural home of the wildlife.The habitat for any animal must provide shelter for protection from weather and predators,food and water for nourishment and space to obtain food ,water and attract mate.
The improvements that can be applied to create better habitats are:-
1)To attract butterflies and other insects, lot of flowering plants should be present in the location.The flowering plants and bushes are also attractive to birds and they use parts of grasses and shrubs to make nests.Some flowers which attract wildlife include asters, coneflowers, sunflowers,coreopsis,salvia,cup plant, herbs ,cat mint and onions.
2) Installation of water sprinkler, this installation would become an effective water source for plants, birds and animals alike.
3) artificial ponds can be made and an underwater heating system would have to installed ,for it to be used as a fish habitat.