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How to volunteer your time for wildlife - Part 4/5: Hosting Fundraisers
Hosting a fundraiser for conservation can be an extremely effective way to volunteer your time for wildlife! In this 4th installment of our volunteering time series, we share first-hand examples and tips for any business looking to host a fundraiser for wildlife.
How to volunteer your time for wildlife - Part 3/5: Habitat Improvements
From controlled burns, causing small floods, to building your own little “National Park”, the third installment in our time volunteering series will help you get started rebuilding habitat!
How to volunteer your time for wildlife - Part 2/5: Wildlife Counts
In the 2nd installment of our volunteering time series, we share the best tips for volunteering your time doing wildlife counts and surveys.
How to volunteer your time for wildlife - Part 1/5: Habitat Cleanups
The first in a five-part series sharing the top ways that businesses certified by 2% for Conservation give their time to wildlife, with tips on how to successfully volunteer for conservation with your business.
Want to be healthier in 2024? Studies say to get outside and volunteer.
There is one scientifically proven thing you and your employees can do to improve your mental and physical health. And it doesn’t require dunking yourself in an ice bath.
Farther Afield takes Tech to Conservation
Farther Afield is a design and technology consulting firm that specializes in geospatial solutions, map creation, and design. Creating a web-based mapping application to showcase the geographic extent and boundaries of conservation partnerships is essential to address this problem – that's where Farther Afield steps in to help.
Loon Project of the Northern Midwest
Based on our population estimates, loon numbers are decreasing by 6% annually – a shockingly high number that means that lakes on which many vacationers have always heard loons are now falling silent. Since learning of loon population declines two years ago, we have been investigating the causes of the declines in Wisconsin.
My Conservation Story: Pangolin Rehabilitation
Pangolins, wearing the equivalent of an armour of expensive nail clippings, are suffering and being killed relentlessly - numbers are likely in the tens of thousands per year. One of the leading causes of death for this mammal is electrocution due to the large number of wildlife fences bordering most properties in South Africa. They are also sadly easy to poach.