Build homes and shelters for bats, toads and butterflies.  (One toad can eat as many as 1,500 earwigs in one summer.)

Assist birds by using bird feeders (especially during periods of severe winter weather) and bird houses, by deliberately growing bushes and trees provide them with food and shelter, and by maintaining a bird bath.

Create a pond in your backyard to attract frogs and toads.  By creating a favourable habitat, you may help maintain or increase amphibian populations that have been decreasing in recent years.

Use native species. Our songbirds take more readily to a familiar thicket of native dogwood or willow than to introduced, exotic species such as weeping mulberry.  Native species provide food as well as cover, and are not as likely as introduced species to dominate other native plants.

Do your bit to conserve biodiversity by planting heritage plants in your garden.  You'll help save them from extinction.

Gardeners and farmers help wildlife when they avoid the use of pesticides.  Many birds die every year after feeding on fields, lawns, or golf courses immediately after treatment with short lived pesticides.  Look for less harmful ways to control insects and weeds.  Or live with them -- crabgrass and wasps are wildlife too.