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Certified Wildlife Habitat Program
Grant Program Website:
http://www.nwf.org/Garden-for-WildlifeSupport Agency:
Program Contact:
NWF Mid-Atlantic Regional Center
Mid-Atlantic Regional Center
20 Ridgely Avenue, Suite 203
Annapolis, MD 21401
20 Ridgely Avenue, Suite 203
Annapolis, MD 21401
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Rolling certificationPurpose:
Whether you have an apartment balcony or a 20-acre farm, you can create a garden that attracts beautiful wildlife and helps restore habitat in commercial and residential areas. By providing food, water, cover and a place for wildlife to raise their young, you not only help wildlife, but you also qualify to become an official Certified Wildlife Habitat and join the nearly 140,000 sites across the country.Support Type:
Technical AssistanceAvailable Funding:
Technical assistance for thefollowing types of sites:
For Backyards: https://www.nwf.org/Garden-for-Wildlife/Certify
For Schoolyards: https://www.nwf.org/sitecore/content/Home/Garden-for-Wildlife/Create/Schoolyards/Resources
For Sacred Grounds: https://www.nwf.org/sacredgrounds
Restoration Activity:
Conservation Practices, Habitat RestorationEligibility:
Any site can be recognized as a certified habitat, regardless of size. Whether it’s your backyard, local park, schoolyard, rooftop garden or corporate landscape, National Wildlife Federation® wants to recognize all efforts to restore habitats for wildlife.<< Back to WRA Directory
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
