As the saying goes, Think Globally, Act Locally. Small actions we take can make a huge difference for animals in our neighborhoods. Here are some things you can do!

1) Plant Native Plants
If you live in the sububs, load your yard up with as many plants as you can. If you live in the city, add some pots in plants to your sidewalk. Every little bit helps, especially for small creatures like insects that desperately need our help.

2) Stop using pesticides
Insects are the base of the food chain on land (right above plants). Whether your     favorite cute animal is a bug, eats bugs, eats fruit that needs bugs to grow, or eats animals that eats bugs, it all comes down to one reality: we need bugs!! When you use chemicals that kill insects, you're hurting more than the critters you kill directly.

3) Kill your lawn, replace it with more useful plants (like flowers and plants with leaves that critters like to eat!)

4) Build habitat
Some animals have specific structures that we can build to help them, like bat boxes to give bats nice places to snooze during the day. 

5) Stop Climate Change 
All of the ways we help animals are connected, because few if any ecosystems operate completely independently of the others on earth. When we help the ecosystem nearby by reducing energy use, or changing how we make electricity in the first place, it helps animals nearby, and the animals affected by climate change across the whole globe. Get a whole list of ways to stop climate change here.