In this topic you will learn about the general reduction of biodiversity and how community gardens can work against it.
Unfortunately, climate change and the ever-increasing transformation of nature for human use in urban and rural areas also result in a decline in biodiversity. This is largely due to the decline in habitats and forage plants for flora and fauna. While monocultures often dominate on agricultural land, urban green spaces are often poor in biodiversity due to the supposedly simpler green maintenance measures required. Community gardens can thus function as stepping stone biotopes in town and country. It is important here to cultivate plants that have become rare in the area and represent an important source of food for the animals by creating wild areas and special rooms for animals. Those can be f.e. wild edges and corners, dead hedges, habitat piles, insect hotels, sandarium, bird and bat houses etc. Many animals, especially insects, specialize in a few plants as a source of food. If these are missing, the animals also disappear.
