How you can help

There are many ways you can help conservation efforts!

• Make your own composting bin 
• Protect a vernal pool…
• Volunteer at the zoo or at another conservation organization
• Donate to the Zoo
• Buy locally grown foods.
• Get involved in national wildlife and citizen scientist programs:
  • Monarch butterfly releases http://monarchwatch.org/
  • Project FeederWatch  http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/
  • FrogWatch USA http://www.aza.org/frogwatch/
  • Christmas Bird Count http://www.audubon.org/Bird/cbc/
• Reduce your carbon footprint (the amount of greenhouse gases produced to maintain your day-to-day activities)
  • This link http://sustainability.publicradio.org/consumerconsequences/ will help you estimate what your carbon footprint is, and how many planets it would take to sustain it (that’s right, planets with an “s”)
  • Here are some ways to help reduce your footprint:
• Reduce, Recycle, Reuse
• Use energy efficient light bulbs
• Turn down thermostats in winter, up in summer
• Turn off lights
• Bike or walk instead of drive
• Keep your tires correctly inflated. Under-inflated tires lower gas mileage by 0.4 percent for every one pound of drop in pressure of all four tires. So, if you’re down by 10 pounds you’re losing 4 percent in fuel economy – which is $0.12 a gallon when gas is $3.00/gal.