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Step 1
Teach your children to throw their garbage in the trash can instead of on the ground. Inform them that the trash destroys the plants and can pose a hazard to animals that might eat it. Tell your kids if a trash can isn't available to put it in their pockets or hold on to it until they can find one.
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Step 2
Educate your children on the effects that feeding wild animals can have on the environment. Feeding wild animals entices them to invade campsites or homes, putting them at risk for capture or killing by angry or scared people. It also teaches animals that it is easier to beg for food from humans than it is to catch their own.
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Step 3
Inform your children about staying on trails when hiking or going for a walk. Walking off trail crushes plants and flowers native to the area and may ruin the den of wild animals. Staying on the trail also protects your children by lessening the likelihood that they will get lost or bitten by a snake, insect or wild animal.
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Step 4
Talk to your children about the damage that picking plants or flowers can have on nature. Plants that they pick may drop seeds in different areas, causing them to grow in another area. The transplanted foliage may not be native to the area and can overpower the ones that need to grow there to sustain the local habitat.
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Step 5
Help your children to understand the affects of removing an animal from his home. Animals set up home in an area where they can find food and provide natural benefits to the environment, such as keeping the insect population under control. In order to show respect for nature the animals must remain where you find them do benefit the ecosystem.
