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===What can you do to help preserve biodiversity?===

Volunteers have played an important role in the effort to preserve the Puritan tiger beetle. For example, you have or will soon, see how volunteers have been instrumental in surveying the status of their population sizes. They have also helped to collect and move larvae from Connecticut to Massachusetts to restore the local population. However, acting directly on behalf of a species is only one way that you can act to protect biodiversity.

Have you considered collectively adopting a local endangered species like the Puritan tiger beetle? Learn more about Maryland listed species. Follow this link for ideas on adopting a species.

There are many other activities in which volunteers can respond to a call-to-action, and help conserve and restore biodiversity here in Maryland. The following links will direct you to just some of the organizations that recruit and train enthusiastic advocates like you to make a difference.

Finally, and perhaps most fundamentally, stress to others how important it is to sustaining biodiversity that we treat species, and their habitat, with respect.

__The Links__:



Sierra Club - Maryland Chapter: Remove invasive species



2011 Maryland Conservation Landscaping Field Day



Maryland Native Plant Society - Adkins Arboretum Invasive Species Removal Project



Work with others to help clean the Chesapeake Bay

Work outside sustaining the Eastern Shore of Maryland's lands and waters