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Habitat

            "What is Habitat for Humanity?" Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit organization that helps provide cheap, affordable housing for families that need it. It is a Christian organization trying to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness. It does not discriminate and accepts people of all races and religions. This organization has become very influential due to its history and it has affiliates around the world.
             The History of Habitat for Humanity.
             Habitat for Humanity was founded in 1976 by Millard and Linda Fuller. Since creation Habitat has built and rehabilitated over 100,000 houses. The idea of Habitat was born at Koinonia Farm. Koinonia Farm is a small, interracial, Christian farming community in Georgia. The Fullers were a successful family. But in 1965 they moved to Koinonia Farm to leave an affluent lifestyle to start a new Christian life. There the Fullers met Clarence Jordan the founder of Koinonia Farm and biblical scholar. That is when Fuller and Jordan developed the idea of partnership housing. That is people in need of a home would work side by side with volunteers to build simple houses. This is where the idea for Habitat was born. The houses would be built for nonprofit or interest. Building the homes would be funded by a fund for humanity. The money for the fund would come from payments, donations, and money earned from fundraising. In 1968 Koinonia set aside forty-two half-acre house sites with four acres reserved as a community house. They received donations from around the country. The Fullers later started building homes in developing countries, like they did in Zaire in 1973.
             How does it work and what are the costs.
             Volunteers and donations of money and materials make it all possible. Habitat houses are sold to partner families at a no profit and no interest loans. The monthly mortgage payments are used to build more habitat houses. But the homes are not a handout.


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1. What I Learned from Habitat for Humanity

Homes are built by volunteers, Habitat partner families, and local groups that include schools, firms and City departments. ... Sweat equity hours are volunteer hours selected Habitat families commit to as part of their participation with Habitat for Humanity in an effort to buy a Habitat home. ... Willingness to partner is described as partnering with Habitat as you, with the help of others, build your home. ... Many people have the belief that Habitat gives houses away. That is not the case, Habitat helps these families. ...

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2. Pheasants Forever

Pheasants Forever is dedicated to the protection and enhancement of pheasant and other wildlife populations in North America through habitat improvement, public awareness, education, and land management benefiting landowners and wildlife alike. Pheasants Forever's system of county chapters allows 100% of net funds raised by chapters to remain at the chapter level for local habitat projects. Chapter leaders, with help from resource professionals, establish habitat restoration programs customized to meet the needs of wildlife in their area. ... In 13 years, Pheasants Forever has spent m...

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3. Ecosystem Protection and Species Protection

However, the plight of the tiger is not entirely due to habitat loss, as it is with many other endangered species. Human activities are currently the major driving force for habitat loss of many species, especially in marine environments. ... The most notable of these habitats involve coral reef areas. ... The largest hurdle to ecosystem and habitat conservation is human development and expansion. In California, agriculture and housing development has greatly affected, and in many cases destroyed, vital habitats to many species. ...

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4. Wildlife Conservation in Wyoming

This low percentage may be the result of the lack of funding for habitat conservation. ... There should be more organizations to help promote funding for habitat conservation. ... It is a document that highlights the attempts to restore game and habitat. ... Their contributions often generate additional habitat dollars. ... If more people thought that preserving wildlife habitat was as important as creating wind energy, funding for habitat conservation would be less of an issue. ...

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5. Rainbow/Steelhead Trout

Depending on the genetic make- up of the trout population and the habitat conditions they will use some or all of these aquatic habitats during their lives. ... A Good trout stream habitat is complex, consisting of an array of riffles and pools, submerged wood, boulders, undercut banks, and aquatic vegetation. (1)The ability of the trout to swim to and from different habitats from ocean to headwaters, or from tributaries to headwaters, increases the value of the individual habitat....

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6. White Tigers

The goal of this habitat conservation plan is to protect all existing tiger habitat, i.e., no further loss of Amur tiger habitat should occur. ... To achieve this goal of no future habitat loss, we propose that an effective habitat protection plan for Amur tigers consists of three key components. ... Therefore, management zones must be delineated for all potential tiger habitat. ... Thirdly, all important tiger habitat must be interconnected. ... al education, as well as habitat protection. ...

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7. Salmon in BC

Habitats were restored and enhancement projects were done to physically improve access to, and quality of, salmon habitat. The production of a comprehensive habitat inventory for the Fraser and its tributaries, as well as the assembly of a GIS database through which this information could be accessed for use by habitat managers. Scientific studies to investigate constraints to the productive capacity of the watershed, fish/habitat interactions, stock sizes, impacts of development on fish production, and other fish and habitat related issues. Improvement of habitat management planning, throu...

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