"The New Jersey Audubon Society fosters environmental awareness and a conservation ethic among New Jersey's citizens; protects New Jersey's birds, mammals, other animals, and plants, especially endangered and threatened species; and promotes preservation of New Jersey's valuable natural habitats."

Welcome to the World of Backyard (and other Shared) Habitats!

Each year, 15,000 additional acres of New Jersey are converted from either agricultural or forest lands for other uses.  A majority of these become residential properties for humans and loose much of their benefit to the birds, butterflies, and other wildlife that have depended on them for millennia.  While the our Conservation Department is working constantly to help preserve and improve larger tracts of land, NJAS encourages each individual citizen and property owner, regardless of property size, to provide for the stewardship of their property to help preserve our diminishing plant and wildlife species.

For many years, the New Jersey Audubon Society has promoted the development and maintenance of backyard habitats.  We are currently focusing our educational efforts, not only on individual yards, but also on other properties such as schoolyards and businesses where humans and wildlife coexist.  In these pages, we provide information that has been gathered by naturalists, researchers, and backyard habitat enthusiasts.  We hope that you will find this information useful as you work to create and maintain the property entrusted to you - both for your enjoyment and for the benefit of wildlife.

As a start, please check out the following pages: 

Ten Tips for Backyard Habitat

A Dozen "Must Have" Plants for Backyard Habitat

We invite you to visit this site regularly for updates on educational and volunteer opportunities at our centers.

NEWS!

Spring Plant Sales, featuring native plants are scheduled at several of our centers. 

Click here for details: Wildlife Plants for Sale