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NEEF – December 14, 2011
By NEEF
Environmental solutions for the future can begin with you! Whether you’re in a city, rural area or a suburb, wildlife is all around you. In many places, wildlife faces challenges. Are you a high school student with a creative idea for conserving and protecting wildlife and its habitat in your community? Planet Connect is offering high school students grants of $1,000 to implement their problem-solving projects and participate in a local internship focused on wildlife conservation. Wildlife conservation issues exist all around us—and so do opportunities to address these issues. Start paying attention to changes happening in your community and…
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