Restore biodiversity in your community.
You might have heard that our world is out of balance. Ecosystems that need native plants and animals to flourish are plagued by human development and invasive species. Many of our local green spaces like yards, parks, and porches are home to mostly introduced, non-native plants that do little to maintain a healthy regional biodiversity.
Mary Reynolds created the We Are The Ark project as a global call to action. “If you want to help nature, you’re going to have to start with your own patch of it. Start at home,” said Reynolds in aInspired by Mary’s call to action, Wild Hope partnered with SciStarter and StarNet to develop resources for libraries, classrooms, and communities to make native plant rewilding a simple, fun, and impactful citizen science endeavor.
Activating those “weed seeds” is the first step to building the layers of an ARK. As participants add successive layers of native plants , Reynolds recommends adding a sign declaring that the area is an ARK. In the immediate term, you can use citizen science to assess your ARK’s impact on local biodiversity – the more variety, the healthier the area is. The We Are the Ark project, SciStarter, and HHMI Tangled Bank Studios invite you to monitor bees, butterflies, native plants, and more for scientists via the special ARK iNaturalist project.
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