Build a Backyard Habitat Friendly to Wildlife

Whether you have an apartment balcony or a 20-acre farm, you can create a garden that attracts beautiful wildlife and helps restore habitat in commercial and residential areas. By providing food, water, cover and a place for wildlife to raise their young you not only help wildlife, but you also qualify to become an official Certified Wildlife Habitat®.

The National Wildlife Federation gives a wide range of instructions and advice on what to do to attract wildlife to your back yard. Learn more about wildlife friendly backyards.

One way of attracting raptors to your back yard is to build an Owl Box. Here’s how.