What is the Backyard Wildlife Habitat™ program?
NWF’s Backyard Wildlife Habitat™ program is helping thousands of people just like you experience wildlife right where they live. By learning how to garden with the needs of wildlife in mind, you can attract beautiful birds, delightful butterflies and other remarkable creatures to your front yard, backyard or balcony.
How do you create a backyard habitat?
NWF will guide you in creating your habitat with our FREE Backyard Wildlife Online Scrapbook. This useful tool allows you to plan your habitat online, complete with a photo album, species list, and more. You may also want to visit our Habitat Shop for books and kits that will help you along the way.
With the Backyard Wildlife Online Scrapbook, you progress at your own pace. Just save your personal data, and when you return to the site, you can pick up right where you left off! After completing the Planner, you’ll receive a FREE ASSESSMENT of your garden to see how “wildlife-friendly” it is.
This FREE ASSESSMENT will rate your garden on the four elements needed for a successful backyard habitat: 1) Food 2) Water 3) Cover and 4) Places for wildlife to raise young. You can use the Planner as an educational tool or as a step-by-step process toward your ultimate goal — providing a habitat for wildlife.
Why certify your habitat? America’s Wildlife Need You
Habitat loss is one of the greatest threats to America’s wildlife. By creating a habitat for wildlife and certifying your yard as an official Backyard Wildlife Habitat™ site, you will be joining a national network of people who are helping to protect wildlife today and are inspiring the wildlife gardeners of tomorrow.
When you certify your yard through NWF’s Backyard Wildlife Habitat program, you’ll receive a complimentary membership to NWF, a 1-year subscription to the award-winning National Wildlife® magazine, and many other great benefits.
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Gallery ID: 6388 Region: New England
I would advise people thinking of establishing a habitat to think "from the ground up."
- Habitat Owner
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