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What do Ponds provide for the Environment?
Backyard water features are not only enjoyable for us, but also necessary for the well being and functioning of our environment. One pond in one backyard may not seem very important, but when you have a thousand similar backyard ecosystems functioning simultaneously, there’s truly a positive impact being made on the environment. Large amounts of habitat are restored for frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders, all of whose numbers have been declining sharply for many years now. Birds have also been driven from many of their natural wetland habitats, which they need so desperately to survive. So at a grassroots level, as the pond industry grows, there are additional habitats and diversity being added to our stressed suburban environments.

An ecological region is made up of thousands of elements, water being the most basic of these. Each pond is a piece of this puzzle. As wild habitats are depleted due to commercial development and other factors, these pieces are eliminated. This is why it is so important to restore and preserve as many of these as possible. A backyard pond restores one of these pieces back to an ecosystem. So don’t just see a pond as an independent, unrelated element. See it instead, as part of the “big picture,” the regional environment.

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