Your conservation impact doesn't end when your tour is over! Learn more about the ways that you can make a difference at home through activities, lifestyle changes, donations and more.
Investigate the nature in your own backyard
Practice everyday sustainability
Support nature & conservation organization
Conservation Activities for the Whole Family
There's more to explore in the great outdoors! We've highlighted some of our favorite conservation projects for citizen scientists of all ages. For a full list of projects, click below.
Tracker Mission (Texas)
Submit photos of wildlife tracks to understand animal diversity with ongoing droughts in North Texas to the Rio Grande Valley.
Wildwatch Kenya
We need your help to count, identify, and track the giraffes and other wildlife living in our field conservation sites in northern Kenya!
HerpMapper
Record herps that you have seen, but also allow that data to be recorded for scientists to use.
FrogWatch USA
Helps volunteers learn about wetlands and conserve amphibians by reporting calls of local frogs and toads.
Never Home Alone: The Wildlife of Homes
Helps volunteers learn about wetlands and conserve amphibians by reporting calls of local frogs and toads.
Make Changes for the Better
Sustainable changes can be good for you and the environment you live in!
Consider Composting
Did you know Fossil Rim makes our own compost? Composting can be an easy way to keep food scraps out of landfills and to give nutrients back to the soil.
Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
There is no simpler way to make a sustainable change than to follow the the R's: Consider saying no to buying less. If you can, reuse what you have and recycle whenever possible.
Buy & Eat Local
Nothing is tastier than food grown in your own backyard. If you'd rather skip the growing yourself part, consider a community-supported agriculture (CSA) farms in Texas.
There's more where we come from
Check out our partners, and look for sustainable and nature-supporting organizations near you.