How to Protect Wildlife Habitat
What can you do to protect our wildlife, preserve, protect, or restore their native habitat?
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Consumerism - purchasing habitats that support habitat preservation
Consumerism - purchasing habitats that support habitat preservation
We can mindfully change our habitats to purchase products that are better for our environment.
Inherently this creates less demand for products that impact our environment. The problem is that our environment is so taxed for resources that it encourages development, logging, and slash and burn tactics to fulfil a need for more resources.
We need more Toilet paper, so cut down more forests in Canada.
We need more land to raise cattle, so burn more rain forest in Brazil to make room for cattle pastures.
We need more palm oil for peanut butter and soap, so just burn more Indonesian rain forest to plant more palm trees.
Best choices for our environment
Zero Waste - Not creating waste is the best choice for our environment. We can choose to not create waste while purchasing and consuming a product. (Purchase a product off of the shelf without packaging using a reusable container.)
Recyclable - We can choose recycled raw materials in recycled packaging.
Sustainable - We can choose to buy a product that is created from raw materials that are sustainably sourced with packaging that is sustainably sourced. Like toilet paper that came from a forest that is monitored as a sustainably logged.
Single Use - We can create waste lawfully and ignorantly creating an unsustainable pile of waste negatively affecting our environment. Choosing single use plastic, Styrofoam, or paper cups and throw it out instantly.
Zero Waste
Zero Waste
Zero waste is the most responsible lifestyle change as a consumer. We are so used to single use paper products like paper plates, or renewable materials such as aluminum cans, that the concept of zero waste is foreign. We could use a cup at a pizza shop which gets washed instead of using a paper cup drinking once and throwin it out onthe way out the door.
Changing our habitats is not only hard but most of the time it is not even an option.
Sustainable, Renewable, and Recycled Products
Sustainable, Renewable, and Recycled Products
Sustainable Labeling
Sustainable Labeling
Best Choice is 100% Recycled Paper
Sustainable forestry labeling is very misleading, most products offer "Mixed" sustainable forest certification. This means just one percent of the wood fiber has to come from verified sustainable forest.
Recycled Paper as the source of wood fiber for products like Paper towels and Bathroom Tissue is a more responsible consumer choice to be mindful of protection our wildlife habitats and preserving our forests.
Sustainable Forestry Standards through the certification of lumber sources
Recycled Paper Products
Recycled Paper Products
Purchasing recycled paper products such as paper towels and toilet paper preserves our forests by creating less of a demand for the not sustainable logging of our forests. Scott's Toilet paper brand cuts down a forest equivalent to the size of the state of Rhode Island in the Canadian boreal forest annually.
Renewable Products
Renewable Products
Renewable products are products that are not single use and have the ability to be recycled.
Aluminum is a success story as it relates to recycling. 75% of all aluminum ever mined is still in circulation because the recycled aluminum is cheaper that the newly mined aluminum. Aluminium can also be recycled indefinitely, over and over again.
Plastic is cheaper as a new raw material where recycle plastic costs more because of the recycling process. There is a new bill in congress bout changing our rubbish, trash collection process where this is taken into account. Senators talk about possibly inflating the price of new plastic through a tax to make the recycled plastic more competitively price. Congress also has discussed subsidizing the recycling process to lessen the cost of recycled plastic. They have asked our land grant colleges to do research seeing if they can find alternatives to help this process.
Many businesses are required through local laws to have a recycling bin and a recycle waste service: Sometimes you cannot recycle a recyclable package where you buy it. Many municipalities have passed laws which require businesses that sell recyclable glass bottle sodas, or aluminium cans to have a recycling bin.
Organizations that protect Wildlife Habitat and our forests
Organizations that protect Wildlife Habitat and our forests
- The Orangutan project
The Orangutan Project protects Indonesian rain forest which is Orangutan habitat
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