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    throughout the years, different organizations set up donations and sent volunteers to provide help to those in need. In order to get the message out to the donors, organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, created advertisements and posters that simulate people’s emotions to assist the unfortunate (236). Although, Habitat for Humanity has provided enormous help to those that lived in poverty, their strategy in advertisement has also misled the people that needed the aid. In their videos and posters they

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    Lowland Gorilla Habitat

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    Our Group is doing the Eastern Lowland Gorilla. There habitat is Tropical forest and jungles in mountainous regions in central Africa. The eastern lowland gorilla is an omnivorous animal, but the majority of it's diet is made up of eating fruit which the eastern lowland gorilla is known to travel vast distances through the forests to find. Due to their large size, they have very few predators, consisting of large cats and crocodiles. There most dangerous predators are humans. These animals are are

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    Power: The Panther

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    Through the ages people have seen the rapid decline of many different species. Unfortunately due to habitat loss, hunting, and other anthropocentric reasons the loss of wildlife is a norm in the world today. The southern region of the United States is just a remnant of the beautiful landscape that used to cover the area. One species that has seen a direct negative implication of the development in this landscape is the majestic Florida Panther. This creature has been slowly decreasing ever since

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    Abby Buren, Sheridan Dillon-Robinson, Amber Hancock, Brett Shannon Identifying the preferred habitat of southern toads Introduction St. Andrews university is a 500 acre campus consisting of many aquatic habitats, ideal for amphibians such as frogs and toads. Amphibians are susceptible to changes in the environment and are indicators of environmental diversity and success as well as identifiers of pollutants in the environment (Marshall, 2013). We were interested in the prefered conditions for local

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    The boundary of the habitat complex generally follows the outer boundary of the 40,470-hectare (100,000-acre) Central Pine Barrens zone designated by the state of New York in 1993. It is a roughly rectangular area extending from the hamlet of Coram in central Long Island east to the hamlet of Squiretown on Long Island's South Fork; the width of the area from north to south varies from 14 kilometers (9 miles) at the western end to about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) at the eastern end. This boundary encompasses

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    They just want to build homes for th0se who lack adequate shelter. The idea of Habitat for Humanity is to work together with the love of God and people to build a decent, affordable, homes in which people can live and grow as a community. The Fuller’s vision has become a reality and they never thought that it would have helped build

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    was a traumatic situation. This is just one of the many stories that there are and one out of many families and individuals Habitat for Humanity has helped secure a home after a real life disaster. Another family Habitat for Humanity has helped Lamario Fourney and his family. Lamario Fourney is married to his high school sweetheart, Laquesha, and together they have 3 kids, 1 girl and 2 boys. Lamario stated that he always wanted to have a family but that he didn’t know it would happen so fast. As

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    destruction of habitat. The Friends of Lake Claremont have said that “Prior to European settlement the lake was a

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    metapopulations, which may have fluctuating levels of colonization and extinction rates that are normal for the dynamics of the population (Wootton and Bell 1992). Kauffman et al. (2004) echo this finding, as they emphasize the importance of understanding habitat-specific demographic data instead of an overall population count alone, which might carry the assumption of homogenous spatial structure and lead to a misdiagnosis of a population. Another conservation risk of not accounting for spatial structure

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    Introduction There are many great nonprofits in the world doing so many great things for their communities. Nonprofit organizations that stay true to their mission are so vital to helping their communities survive and thrive in this difficult world. Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) is one organization that is going above and beyond for their communities all around the nation. HFHI strives to remain a financially healthy nonprofit organization. They conduct their financials in a transparent

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