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Exciting News! We’re launching a new fundraising campaign, and we’d love for you to be part of it: Help us plant 10 million wildflowers by June 30th. We’re seeing an incredibly high amount of interest from landowners interested in planting #pollinator habitat, and we need your help to make it a success. By helping us plant 10 million #wildflowers across the landscape, you are making a real difference for these #pollinators. Your donation will: 🌱Plant 1 million square feet of high-quality NextGen pollinator habitat projects through our Seed A Legacy and Solar Synergy programs. 🐝 Provide essential nutrition to support #honeybees, which are vital for our food production. 60 honey bee hives will be supported, which will produce over 4,200 lbs. of US honey. 🦋 Provide #monarchbutterfly-specific needs to prevent them from becoming endangered, including 100,000 milkweed seeds being planted within the pollinator habitat. 🌻 Provide ideal habitat for pollinators, native bees, pheasants, quail and grassland songbirds, improve soil, air and water quality, AND enhance #biodiversity while beautifying the landscape. Help us plant 10 million wildflowers by donating today: https://bit.ly/47qkwPU

The Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board (WSMB) and the Wisconsin Corn Growers Association (WCGA) recently donated two plant growth chambers to the WiscWeeds lab at UW-Madison. WiscWeeds will use these growth chambers to study many topics such as weed seed germination ecology and weed response to chemical weed control under various environmental conditions. Thank you, WSMB and WCGA, for your generous donation! Read more: https://lnkd.in/dFHwySKC

ICYMI: Only three more days to join our bat-tacular fundraiser to support four groups working to protect bats through education, rescue and rehabilitation, and conservation. And now is the time to give—now through October 31, AWI is matching all donations up to a total of $40,000! 🦇 Bats are neither spooky nor creepy. They are the unsung heroes of healthy ecosystems—pollinating crops, dispersing seeds, and consuming vast quantities of potentially harmful insects. But bat populations are collapsing due to habitat loss, climate change, declining food supply, and white-nose syndrome, a fatal fungal disease. Now through October 31, all gifts up to a $40,000 total will be matched 1:1 by AWI and distributed equally to the following organizations: Bat World Sanctuary, Pennsylvania Bat Conservation and Rehabilitation, Bat Conservation & Rescue of Virginia, and Bats Northwest. Donate here: https://lnkd.in/eMVbqEKZ 📷: Bat Conservation & Rescue of Virginia

Our pantry offers fresh produce in-season and summer is the most colorful time of year! We're thanful for the bounty that comes in from our pantry gardens, as well as donations from home gardeners. We gladly accept garden produce from home gardens. Please follow the guidelines below to donate your produce: Clean as much mud and dirt as possible off the produce you plan to donate, but do not wash. Remove stems and leaves. Only donate produce that you would buy for your own family. We are unable to use produce that is overripe, overgrown, moldy, seriously blemished, covered in dirt, or has mushy spots. If you use pesticides in your garden, always read and follow the label recommendations. Whenever possible, package produce in family-sized portions in new and clean plastic bags. [Image: Graphic includes a grid of five photos showing fresh green beans, tomatoes, radishes, yellow squash and zucchini with the text "It's garden season!" ]

WARNING footage maybe distressing for some ⚠️‼️ In the footsteps of giants: 40 years battling extinction, 40 years left to win 🐘🐅🦏     Today, we celebrate the launch of our ‘In the footsteps of giants’. Will you join us in the FIGHT to eradicate poaching, habitat loss, and human-wildlife conflict against elephants, rhinos and tigers?   With as few as 420,000 elephants remaining, less than 5,500 wild tigers and only a remnant of black rhinos left alive today, their future looks bleak. These iconic species need our help in order to survive and thrive for another 40 years!     In just a 20-year period, 100,000 elephants were being relentlessly killed EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR.    It was an unimaginable blood bath and part of David’s motivation to act and establish DSWF. 40 years on, these species are still recovering from the brutal wounds of these poaching wars, and the scars and consequences run deep.      As the threat of reopening the ivory trade reestablishes itself, tomorrow’s promise depends on today’s action. Your donation, no matter the size, can make a significant difference. That’s why we’re asking you to donate what you can to help us raise £40,000 in celebration of 40 years of unwavering conservation work to ensure we can protect these iconic animals for at least another 40 more.       Donate now: https://lnkd.in/e3v7VFHg    #InTheFootstepsOfGiants #RhinoConservation #ElephantConservation #TigerConservation #SaveWildlife #TheArtofSurvival #FightProtectEngage #Conservation #WildlifeEducation 

The generosity and cooperative spirit among America's family farmers is legendary and is the only reason many have barely managed to survive over the years. Despite their efforts, America has lost one hundred and forty-thousand (140,000) small farmers over the last five years. Those farm losses will continue to grow unless we collectively do something to help. The wisdom in Thomas Jefferson's quote could not be more relevant than it is today when he said, "The best thing a man can do for his country, is to add another crop into the rotation of the fields." Since those years very few new crops have been introduced into American agriculture, but today the reintroduction of industrial hemp is a game changers for our small family farmers. What we need now is to educate our legislators, regulators, civic leaders and your neighbors on the importance this new crop hold for reviving our struggling rural farming communities. Towards that goal of education, the documentary film "One Plant" highlights the present efforts and what the future potential of hemp means for America's small family farmers. This film makers's goal of raising $65,000 is almost there and we need your help "now," because the funding effort closes in 17 hours! And if we don't meet that $65,000 threshold before then, the money that has already been donated will be lost. So I made my $100 donation this morning and if everyone who reads this matched my donation, we could meet that goal before the deadline expires. You can see from the barn’s clock that time is running out, so please make your donation before 5:00 PM Eastern time on Saturday afternoon. Kindest regards for your generosity that will help America's small family farmers to continue farming! #donate #industrialhemp #kickstarter #documentary #americanfarmers Click on this link below to join and donate today before 5pm! https://lnkd.in/eUa-sNep

Watch: Orphaned elephant calf fights for survival – will you PLEASE help? 🐘 Phabeni, a helpless baby elephant, was orphaned at four months old. Studies have shown that elephants feel emotions, including grief, joy, love, and compassion. Can you imagine the heartbreak of this poor calf when he was separated from his mother and forced to endure the dangers of the wild alone? Our partner, Hoedspruit Elephant Rehabilitation and Development (HERD), found the little calf starving, dehydrated, and covered in wounds, wandering around all alone, near the Kruger National Park in South Africa. Elephant calves are highly dependent on their mothers until around 16 years old, but sadly, his was nowhere to be found. Suckling calves usually die within DAYS of being orphaned, Phabeni – found wounded and starving – is lucky to be alive. Now he needs YOUR help to ensure his survival. The most urgent need for Phabeni is a special formula closely mimicking his mother’s milk, and it's CRITICAL to his survival. He will need milk for the next four to five years. If we can raise $7,000 (£5,540), we can provide him with enough special milk formula for the next THREE months. 🔗 Please help us make a lasting impact on little Phabeni’s life by sharing his story and donating today: https://bit.ly/ASI_HP04L. #AnimalSurvivalInternational #ASI #WildlifePreservation #WildlifeConservation #Wildlife #OrphanedElephant #ElephantCalf #Phabeni #HERD #KrugerNationalPark #WildlifeRescue #AnimalWelfare #ConservationEfforts #SaveTheElephants #Hoedspruit #Elephant #ElephantCalves #HoedspruitElephantRehabilitationandDevelopment #ElephantOrphanage

Moving the alpacas to their winter shelter... As hardy as they are, the wind chills here can take an alpaca down. So they need wind breaks and insulation to stay warm. Especially the babies. We harvest their Fibre to make high-end Organic clothing items ( at least we are trying to, it's a LONG process). AND my wife has been crocheting for multiple years now. So the crochet items she makes, she donates. So the goal is to produce enough Fibre where we can harvest their Fibre and donate the highest end clothing items to kids or single moms in need. We have a similar initiative we are rolling out at Natural Brokerage so stay tuned... Last year we donated some some winter coats, pants, beanies, and other items to some kids who literally had one winter jacket, no pants (they wore shorts all winter), and don't burn fires at home (meaning their house is like 40 degrees all winter). So then we thought, how many kids are going through that or worse? Our goal is to donate to single moms and kids who can't afford these types of clothing. We've been cash flowing this process for a while now but need help to go from 100% cotton to Organic cotton to our alpaca Fibre and sheep wool. Would love any support possible! Link to donate in the comments below... P.S. our farm is a no butcher farm, our goal is to be a Fibre and wool producing farm. #alpacas #llamas #sheep #Fibre #crochet #clothing #farming #farmers

#GivingTuesday is here! We are on our way to raising $7500 over the next 24 hours to expand our mangrove nursery and shoreline restoration work. Will you help? Thanks to a generous anonymous donation, the first $2500 will be matched to double your impact. Donate Now Here: https://lnkd.in/e8JR9bNt In February 2024, we noticed that something was wrong in our mangrove nurseries. Leaves were turning yellow and dropping off trees. Mangrove trees were dying. With the help of researchers at the University of Central Florida, we identified the culprit: Mangrove CNP. Mangrove CNP is a fungal infection that can kill mangrove trees when they get stressed; it was first reported in Florida in 2019. Not only did we lose 87% of our young trees, but we closed both our nurseries and canceled restoration work that involved planting mangroves so we didn’t contribute to the spread of the disease. Fast-forward to December. Continued collaboration with UCF has led to the development of a treatment that increases mangrove resilience against Mangrove CNP. Our nurseries have reopened with trees treated for the fungi and our shoreline restoration work can resume. Moving forward, we not only want to replace lost trees, but to increase our nursery capacity to 25,000 plants over the next three years. Growing our nursery with treated mangroves is particularly important considering Mangrove CNP is killing adult trees in the wild. Why are mangrove important? Mangroves are Florida's coastal guardians and protect our shorelines in countless ways. They are critical habitat for many native species, stabilize shorelines, protect coasts from storm surge, prevent erosion, naturally reduce wind energy, store carbon, and more. Your #GivingTuesday donation will help us grow our mangrove nursery so we can grow Florida’s mangroves.

Love the idea of growing veges and herbs at home but don't have the skills, time or space to generate a year round harvest? I'm usually on LinkedIn engaging in urban design and transport, but I'm also Chair of a small Trust called PiPS. We run a #gardeninschools programme in The Bay of Plenty, teaching thousands of kids hands-on gardening and learning about their food system. We are super excited to be launching a crowd fund campaign to get our seedling subscription off the ground. It's a curated box of seasonal seedlings designed for small space gardeners that arrive monthly to your door. These little cherubs come in the buff! so #noplastic waste piling up in the shed. All proceeds from this initiative get invested back into our work with kids. Our campaign runs for a month, rewards include a one month or three month subscription starting in spring! If you don't garden yourself you can purchase a pay it forward box, which we will give to our partners at Tauranga food bank to help set up families who are struggling, so they can start growing their own veges at home. Subscriptions are available to anyone in the north island, or you can just donate to help get it off the ground. Our goal is to make growing food at home accessible and achievable for more people. Link to the comments or go go to pledgeme.co.nz and search Veg Babies. https://lnkd.in/g5wqYF93