My wife and have extensive flower beds on our property. My very first job as a teenager was in a nursery/garden center and did a lot of landscaping and landscaping design back then. So we have something flowering through out the entire growing season for the pollinators.

Here is one of the more interesting pollinators we have:

I avoid killing spiders? I live in the city, there aren’t many wild animals here. Back when I lived in Marseille, the only ones were dirty rats and I really have close to zero empathy for them, I’m sorry.

around 2 million people live here, and the only wild animal i have encountered in the recent years are my gipsy neighbours.

I was on a walk and saw a beetle on its back. I turned the beetle around so that it could carry on.

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In order of what I believe has the most impact to least impact.

Being vegan. Less farmland utilization and better for the environment.

Using an ebike for travel. Environment and less roadkill.

Being mindful of my overall consumption and spending.

Allowing spiders free reign in my house.

I feed a specific stray cat a can of wet cat food every day when he comes outside my house, and keep a water container filled for him in the summer.

I try to interact with other stray cats when walking around too.

I started working at a wild animal rehab this year. I’ve fed a few hundred squirrels, dozens of song birds, some really cool raptors, and a good handful of mammals.

I consider my time with them positive, but they really don’t want much to do with us. I just released an owl this weekend and it bit me multiple times as I was trying to let it go. That’s the attitude it takes for it to survive, so getting a positive attitude back is typically not an outcome I should, or realistically want to see.

The person being hostile in this thread is going pretty extreme. We shouldn’t be touching or feeding animals directly, but many do need indirect human presence to survive. They evolved with us to an extent, and they take advantage of our food storage and waste and some of the molding of the environment that we do by creating fields and farmland.

Most animal injuries I see are from cars, pets, manmade structures, and cutting down trees animals live in. What people are feeding the birds is likely a very small portion of their diet, as they eat pretty constantly. Keep your bird and squirrel stations clean and provide shelter from predators and you likely aren’t hurting anything in the grand scheme of things. A loose dog or cat is way worse IMO.

I feed anything I come across. I helped a tortoise into the trees a few days ago. Second time I’ve seen him. We have frogs lately after it rains. Cute little guys. I love animals and wish I encountered more every day.

There’s a crow I give peanuts to every morning on my way to work.

Does this count? My wife feeding the Kudu. They get a bucket or so a day of pellets and a bale or two, especially in winter. We have kudu, impala, zebra, etc (even the odd giraffe) passing by most days. And bananas and peanut butter for the bush babies at night.

I slow down when driving past kangaroos. God forgot to give them any brains so they like to just jump into cars and get themselves killed and fuck up ur car in the process. Sometimes they jump into the side of a moving vehicle after chasing it down cos they are that suicidal.

Not much, there arent many wild animals around on my typical day.

I have a spider in the corner of my bathroom that I leave alone.

I watch squirrels in the front yard, they need nothing from me.

The front yard is riddled with moles and dying grass. I live in a condo that is responsible for yard care and they aren’t doing much about the moles. I don’t especially like large, green grass yards so I don’t care if they’re letting the moles destroy it all. Letting them do their thing.

Specifically avoiding running into the wildlife when driving, mostly to protect the car but I suppose it does help the wildlife

My dad likes to feed wild racoons and I help him with that. He puts some dog food and a couple other things out for them and they come up every night to get some and hang out for a bit before returning home