Sciences concerning with natural history are relatively easy understood by ordinary people and related closely to daily lives of common people. It is reasonable to give priority to the propaganda and practice of natural history in leisure society. Civil organizations of natural history play an important role in science communication. The paper, according to several published papers, briefly introduces some organizations such as the Young Naturalists’ Society, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the Isis Society in Dresden, the Portland Society of Natural History, the Boston Society of Natural History and the Sierra Club. It suggests that Chinese government support the self-organizing development of civic natural history groups.

natural history  /  civil organization  /  leisure