Novick, Lisa. “Forage in the Garden, Not in What’s Left of the Wild.” The Huffington Post. The Huffington Post, 31 May 2016. Web. 28 May 2016. <file://localhost/Users/tatetussing/Desktop/Forage%20in%20the%20Garden,%20Not%20in%20What’s%20Left%20of%20the%20Wild.html>.

 

Southern California is a biodiversity hot spot and one third of the native plants are found nowhere else. The already shrinking populations of plants from the colonial incursions of the last 500 years are also being foraged and removed from their habitats. This foraging has removed the homes of the vast majority of the native insects and animals who require these plants for food, water, and shelter. The solution to this is threw gardens designed to grow these native plants and to

 

This article shows that how we forage has a much larger impact on the surrounding ecosystem and that we cant remove these native species from the native animals and insect that rely on them. The way we combat this is allowing these species to comeback by stopping the foraging and creating gardens this would allow the animals and insect who depend on these plants to also comeback. The author also highlights that this is happening all over the world and claims that we are causing the sixth mass extinction event.