On their way south, birds must stop to rest and refuel.
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Backyard EntrepreneurTM Nonprofit Activist Make money working at home as an activist for a cause you believe in. Set up a nonprofit organization. Make money for your cause and set a salary for yourself. Make certain that the administrative costs are at a bare minimum so that the money you raise goes to your cause. Make a difference in the world using your talents and enthusiasm. Fight Against Slavery Throughout history, most groups of people have been forced into slavery. Those whose ansestors were held in slavery should fight the hardest against slavery as it now exists in the modern world. Children are enslaved in Africa today. UNICEF estimates that 200,000 children from West and Central Africa are sold into slavery each year. Children should help free children. The people, religions, and countries who enslave should be condemed to end this vile practice. How has this practice been allowed to continue? Do not confuse working for low wages as the same as slavery. Forced free labor is slavery and it exists around the world. The United Nation celebrated the end of the slave trade in 2004, but it has not ended. It is wrong of the United Nations to give the perception that slavery ended. Babies are stolen and sold to the West. Women and children are sold and forced into prostitution in the West. Even though bonded labor is illegal in Pakistan, it still exists. Slavery still exists in Africa and Haiti. Most are not aware that slavery exists in the modernworld. That is where you come in. You will make people aware. Check out how you can help end slavery at iAbolish. Check out our page on charitable giving to get ideas about other causes you might find worthwhile. Look around you to find other needs to support while supporting yourself at the same time. Become an expert and give speeches -- for a fee, of course. Fight for the Rights of Women Did you know that in some parts of the world, women are denied the right to vote, that they do not have equal rights with men? Let us honor the Iroquois from which our founders copied many ideas. Women had much control and were honored because they produced the babies and cooked the meals. Makes sense to us. Find ways to make your protest known against the treatment of women worldwide. Adopt a Bat
Amanda Lollar found an injured bat on the sidewalk of Mineral Wells, Texas. She nursed it back to health, named it Sunshine, and began to research bats. This lead to the establishment of a bat sanctuary and a book about Sunshine. Find out more about BAT World and how you can adopt a bat. Go to http://www.batworld.org/. Adopt a Chicken
Attwater's Greater Prairie Chicken needs your help! An intensive captive breeding program is currently underway at a number of zoos in Texas. These birds are released into two managed areas - the Texas City Preserve and the Attwater Prairie-Chicken National Wildlife Refuge. To learn more about this program and the organization involved visit: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/apc. To "Adopt-A-Prairie Chicken" through the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department visit: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/apc/adopt/index.htm. This cause needs your help. Conserve Ducks
Find out how you can join duck conservation efforts: https://www.ducks.org/. Create your own organization if you live near ducks and promote that as a nonprofit. Save Backyard Birds And here are some great sites to visit! You do not have to live in the state that has the adoption site to adopt one of their birds. This is a cause for everyone. Florida: http://www.audubon.org/states/fl/fl/conservation/adopt.htm http://www.miamisci.org/www/wildlife_adopt.html http://www.seabirdsanctuary.org/paypaladoptform.htm North Carolina: http://www.carolinaraptorcenter.org/adopt.php Texas http://www.houstonaudubon.org/index.cfm/MenuItemID/404.htm Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland http://www.tristatebird.org/giving/adopt-a-bird.htm Kansas http://www.eaglevalleyraptorcenter.org/adopt_a_bird.asp Missouri http://www.worldbirdsanctuary.org/YouCanHelp/adoptabird.html Canada http://www.bsc-eoc.org/shopping/shop.jsp http://www.wyemarsh.com/about_adopt.html Check out the North American Bluebird Society, a non-profit organization that promotes the conservation of bluebirds. Protect Migratory Birds Lucky is the family who lives in a migratory path for birds. You will be blessed by their presence, even for such a brief time, as they make their way north or south.
Because various species may migrate over your area, put out food and houses that will appeal to a wide range of winter and early spring visitors. Do research (using field guides) to discover the names of the species that you can welcome to your place. Keep cats and dogs indoors. Feed the squirrels their share too.
Landscape for your visitors. Plant trees and shrubs that flower and make berries. Holly bushes are great for the fall and their red berries can be used for Christmas decorations. Let your fall garden mature and go to seed. Postpone fall clean up until the birds have gone on south. Do not turn over your garden or pull up the plants with seed pods. Do not use herbicides or pesticides or clear away the seeds and debris from your yard and garden. Let the birds check it out first. Keep a dead brush pile for the birds for safety. For instructions in making one, check out this site: brush pile. Leave out your spring nesting boxes to use as roosting spots for your stop over guests. In fact, leave them out all year round because various birds migrate year round – not just in the spring and fall. Keep feeders away from windows so that birds do not crash. Millions or birds die each year this way. Use Window Alert decals to warn birds away from windows. Do everything in your power to reduce the reflective powers of windows. In the broader scheme of things you can make a difference. Work within your community to dim lights so that birds are not disoriented in their migration by the blinking lights of high towers and bright lights from tall office buildings. The American Bird Conservancy has more information for you. Get involved with the Migratory Bird Program to protect our migrating birds. You can go way beyond the reaches of your backyard to help out. Find out everything you can about migratory birds beginning with the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. *Photographs by Jill Heck 2007Support Bird Friendly Coffee http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/MigratoryBirds/Coffee/?nzps=sec © Backyard EntrepreneurTM 2007 Link to us. Contact us if you wish to have your site listed here as a resource for Nonprofit Activist. Here are some ideas to get you started. Links Books -- Slavery
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