Obviously, the usual building practices of clear cutting all existing vegetation, bringing in fill dirt with different pH, texture, permeability and landscaping primarily with nonnative vegetation are not sustainable to wildlife and need to be stopped. Rainwater, which would normally pool and slowly seep into the ground and into aquifers, becomes instead stormwater runoff and is carried into rivers, streams, estuaries and bays – polluting them or creating flooding.
Approximately 96 percent of baby land birds eat only insects, and 90 percent of insects evolved with their native host plant. Destroy their host plant and you destroy the insects which feed only on that plant. Native species are plants and animals that were present within a specific region before Europeans made first contact. Although exotic species do not act as host plants, they often provide seeds or nectar which is utilized by wildlife
Elizabeth Major
Gulf Breeze
