Advocate for green spaces
Make your voice heard by talking to those who have the power to make a change. Help them to understand why parks and other green spaces are important for sustaining biodiversity.
Explain what you are doing to help biodiversity to those around you and perhaps even challenge your friends and family to join you in taking action.
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You will need
- to speak to those with the power to make change, such as local businesses, schools, your local council, or MP
How this can help
Biodiversity loss isn't an issue that is well understood by many, yet. By speaking up about biodiversity, you can help others see the value in green spaces and how they benefit the planet and our physical and mental health. They can then also confidently speak up for nature and take action themselves.
Parks, gardens and other green spaces support a huge variety of plant and animal species, including pollinators, that interact and rely on each other for survival.
An abundance of parks, and trees and plants along streets and in gardens can act as wildlife corridors, allowing birds, mammals and insects to travel between green spaces, rather than wildlife in urban areas becoming isolated.
Green spaces can mitigate the effects of pollution and can reduce the phenomenon known as the urban heat island effect, which is where heat gets trapped in built-up areas.
It's not just parks and gardens that could help. Green spaces on roofs could reduce surface temperature, act as natural insulation and filter out pollutants from rainwater, for example.
Further reading
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