Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Habitat for Humanity New York City and Westchester County (Habitat NYC and Westchester) was founded in 1984 as an independent affiliate, serving families across the five boroughs through home construction and preservation, beginning with their first build on the Lower East Side, during the first Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project. [14]
Jul. 5—NEW BOSTON — Habitat for Humanity (HFH) of the Tri-State will soon open the doors of its new ReStore location in New Boston, with a soft opening taking place on July 11 at 9 a.m.
[9] [10] [11] Habitat loss is a leading cause of species extinctions [11] and ecosystem service decline. [12] Two methods have been identified to slow the rate of species extinction and ecosystem service decline: conservation of quality habitat and restoration of degraded habitat. The number and size of ecological restoration projects have ...
Millard Dean Fuller (January 3, 1935 – February 3, 2009) [1] was an American humanitarian and missionary who was the co-founder and the former president of Habitat for Humanity International, a nonprofit organization known globally for building houses for those in need.
The Steuben County Habitat for Humanity ReStore, which has been closed since a building at the site was left in ruins by a mid-July 2023 fire, hopes to reopen this spring in a smaller footprint at ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Revive & Restore was co-founded in 2012 by Stewart Brand and Ryan Phelan with the idea of bringing biotechnology solutions to conservation. [13] The group was incubated by the Long Now Foundation until 2017, when it became an independent 501(c)(3) organization. In 2013 Revive & Restore organized the first public meeting on de-extinction. [14]
Determining the size, type and location of habitat to conserve is a complex area of conservation biology. Although difficult to measure and predict, the conservation value of a habitat is often a reflection of the quality (e.g. species abundance and diversity), endangerment of encompassing ecosystems, and spatial distribution of that habitat. [34]