Conserving and restoring our natural ecosystems is crucial to global sustainability. For those of us who don’t have time to get actively involved in wildlife restoration, there’s an organization making it possible to incorporate saving the environment into our workday. Since 1988, the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) has been helping large landowners, particularly corporations, manage their unused lands for the benefit of wildlife.
Ford Motor Company is one corporation that has joined with the WHC in its Wildlife at Work program. The program is a corporate-driven, cooperative effort between management, employees, community members, local conservation groups and local, state and federal agencies. Wildlife at Work management teams establish, develop and manage a wildlife program, working toward WHC certification. Ford has 17 global facilities that have received WHC certification as wildlife habitat sites ranging in size from 5 to 100 acres. The sites include ecosystems as wide-ranging as wetlands, woodland, prairie, meadow and forest.
Employees get involved by teaming with community service groups such as Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and local schools to maintain the Wildlife at Work sites. Ford employees have built nature trails, erected bird and bat houses and planted wildflower gardens in addition to establishing wildlife habitats.
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