Ways You Can Help Reptiles

Help to Educate

This can be small but still helpful. If you see someone referencing a "poisonous" snake or saying any misconceptions or misinformation. You can corrcet them so that they and the people around you can learn more about reptiles.

Support organizations that help reptiles

Some of these organizations include Orianne, Nature Conservancy, ICRF, and PARC.

Create an evironment for reptiles in your backyard.

This not only helps reptiels but other organisms in the ecosystem iin and around your backyard. You can do this by planting native plants and putting birdbaths on the ground for organisms to use. If you do this, you may also want to keep your yard without debris or many brush piles so that you can see where you are going so that you do not accidently harm an organism, or provoke an organism to harm you.

Keep Cats Indoors

Outdoor cats cause a lot of turmoil for not only reptiles, but also birds and mice. They hurt the ecosystem in and around your backyard. You can prevent this by keeping you cats predominently indoors.

Do Not Buy Reptile Skin Products

Try not to buy products made of reptile skins or parts.

Adopt

If you want to keep a reptile as a pet. Do your reasearch and adopt a reptile instead of buying a baby. Do not keep reptiles you find outside. Do not release your pets into the wild.

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