Whether you have an apartment balcony or a 20-acre farm, you can create a garden that attracts beautiful wildlife and helps restore habitat in commercial and residential areas. By providing food, water, cover and a place for wildlife to raise their young, you not only help wildlife, but you also qualify your space to become an official Certified Wildlife Habitat
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The first Habitat for Humanity house built as part of the Build Smart, Breathe Easier national asthma education program will be dedicated in partnership with the Dunmore family in Detroit on Friday, July 29, 2011. Program partners Merck, Habitat for Humanity Detroit, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) and HGTV’s Carter Oosterhouse will host a dedication ceremony where Betty Dunmore and her three daughters will receive keys and walk through their completed home with asthma-healthy features for the first time.
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Wildlands, Inc. announces the completion of habitat restoration at the Liberty Island Conservation Bank in Yolo County, California. The completion of construction caps a three year entitlement and permitting process with federal, state and local agencies in one of the most complex restoration projects in Wildlands 20-year history.
The 186-acre restoration project focused on tidal aquatic habitat suitable for special-status fish species. The Liberty Island Conservation Bank is a collaborative effort between Wildlands, California Department of Fish and Game (DFG), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and will mitigate permitted impacts to fisheries habitat throughout the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The Bank is protected with a permanent conservation easement and a non-wasting long-term endowment to manage the property in perpetuity.
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When Habitat for Humanity St. Louis (HFHSL) identified vacant property just north of downtown, the construction team wanted to build homes that were not only energy efficient but safe for its new tenants.
And with Model Building Codes now requiring new single- and two-family dwellings to be outfitted with sprinkler systems, Habitat chose to go with copper systems for all of its new homes, including the six that were completed this spring.
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Thrivent Financial for Lutherans announced that in 2011 it will fund the construction of 164 Habitat for Humanity homes in 33 states with a $10.4 million contribution. Thrivent Financial’s total six-year commitment to Habitat for Humanity to help families achieve the dream of homeownership will surpass $150 million in 2011. This commitment is through a unique partnership called Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity.
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Attention Yo Gabba Gabba! fans! Weeks before the highly anticipated upcoming Yo Gabba Gabba! LIVE! tour dates are announced, W!LDBRAIN Entertainment, one of the world’s foremost producers of animation and family entertainment and producers of the hit series and live stage show Yo Gabba Gabba!, has teamed with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles and D-I-Y designer Holly Westhoff in an unprecedented collaboration to create the ultimate dream-come-true Yo Gabba Gabba! Kid’s Bedroom Makeover that will razzle-dazzle preschoolers and parents alike. The Yo Gabba Gabba! Kid’s Bedroom Makeover is timed with Yo Gabba Gabba! toddler bedding hitting shelves nationwide at Walmart stores, and “The Great Yo Gabba Gabba! Goodnight” bedtime promotion and giveaway at Facebook.com/yogabbagabba.
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TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank®, today announced that it plans to protect approximately 214 acres of critical forest habitat as part of the bank’s TD Forests program (www.td.com/forests). In partnership with The Nature Conservancy, the bank will protect oak-hickory and hemlock-northern hardwood forests in New York’s Finger Lakes region, and oak-hickory-cabbage palm and upland mixed forests in Central Florida.
To view Multimedia News Release, go to http://www.multivu.com/mnr/58522-td-bank-nature-conservancy-protect-new-york-central-florida-forests
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Just in time for Orangutan Caring Week, Audubon Zoo has raised the curtain on its new habitat for the critically endangered primates.
Audubon’s family of Sumatran orangutans recently moved to their new Asian Domain home. The expanded exhibit provides three times as much space as their former facility in the World of Primates.
New features include a moat, a cascading waterfall, palm trees and climbing structures that soar up to 45 feet, significantly taller than before. From the highest point, the orangutans have a panoramic view of much of the zoo and even boats as they cruise along the Mississippi River.
“Orangutans are the largest arboreal animals on the planet,” said curator of Primates Courtney Eparvier. “And this gives them increased opportunity to exhibit their natural behaviors.”
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SUBSCRIBE to see more of Andy & Ben Do Mexico: http://bit.ly/1nKaSiTDelving into the heart of Mexico. This
episode sees the boys find the Mexico they were looking for when they
arrive in the deeply-traditional town of Puebla. Here, they experience
some of the finest dining and flavours in the country at the acclaimed
restaurant El Mural de los Poblanos. Andy & Ben are
never far from a Mexican market and Episode 2's market experience is as
full on as you'd expect - mountains of food, intense flavours and their
own, personal one-man-band.To top it off the boys eat a kilo of
meat, each, and stumble across a local area commonly known as 'Sweet
Street', which sees Ben and his sweet tooth in his natural habitat. Edited by Kent HauDesign by DavrosAssociate Producer Madeleine GasparinatosDigital Designer Alex De BonisMusic by Audio Network
General Mills announced today that by the end of 2020, oat farms that supply oats for Honey Nut Cheerios will host approximately 3,300 total acres of dedicated flower-rich pollinator habitat. It takes about 60,000 acres of oats to make Honey Nut Cheerios products each year. More than two thirds of the crops used to feed people, accounting for 90 percent of the world’s nutrition, are pollinated by bees.1 Flower-rich habitat is critical in helping maintain the nutritional health of bees and the continued supply of crops that we depend on for food. Without bees and other pollinators, food as we know it would be forever changed.
Bees have experienced an unprecedented scale of habitat loss with more than 9 million acres of grass and prairie land converted to crop land since 2008.2 Although Honey Nut Cheerios famous spokesbee, Buzz Bee, and his honey bee friends may not be in danger of extinction like some other pollinators, in the interest of protecting our food supply, Honey Nut Cheerios is committed to helping all pollinators thrive through the planting of these habitats.
“Pollinator habitats are one of the most effective solutions in ensuring bees get the daily nutrition they need,” said Dr. Marla Spivak, a world-renowned bee scholar at the University of Minnesota who has been collaborating with General Mills on this initiative. “Every day, 4,000 species of North American bees are traveling from flower to flower, shopping for the variety of good nutrition they need in order to thrive. My hope is this partnership between farmers, the Xerces Society and General Mills will not only beautify the North American countryside with vibrant wildflowers, but also help the bees we all rely on so much get back on their own six feet!”
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http://www.multivu.com/players/English/7803951-honey-nut-cheerios-pollinators/
