- Buy food locally (check where your fruit is from if out of season) 

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- Decrease your carbon footprint- rethink how your lifestyle can be a solution and not a problem

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- Invest in your local ecosystem to stop the sourcing and importation from other regions such as Mexico (Clothes, food etc. sourced locally) 

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- Advocate for policy changes that will reduce carbon emissions and pollutions, and that protect wildlife 

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- Educate yourself about the systems in place that cause climate change and how your actions can shift that

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- Research and understand if your water use is affecting other regions, learn to conserve water and recharge the water aquifer where you live

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- Donate to the Turtle Conservancy https://www.turtleconservancy.org/donate

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- Understand the conservation efforts of TESF https://tesf.org/?s=donate+#

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- Learn about endangered species where you live, how your life might be affecting them, and how you can change what you are doing to protect biodiversity on this earth. 

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- Tell someone you know about what you learned about the Bolson Tortoise, and how human activity on our planet is causing the endangerment of many species, which will have a detrimental effect on our ecosystems. 

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Note: There is currently no recovery plan for the Bolson Tortoise (Bolson tortoise (Gopherus flavomarginatus), n.d.) But there are ways that we plans in progress that are there to help revive the Bolson Tortoise population.

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Want to learn more? 

Look into the Turner Endangered Species Fund!