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Conservation Week!
Brought to you by Pirate (#306) and a Slashbot!
As our population increases, we need more and more of the environment to support us and help us live our lives. But often this causes problems within the environment, deminishing its ability to sustain life and eventually sustain us as we exploit the resources to our advantage. Currently the earth is heading into a mass extinction event, on par with other natural events such as the ice age or the mass extiction that lead to the demise of the dinosaurs. Except this time the root cause is the action of humanity on the environment.
Conservation is one way we are trying to overcome the damages we have already made to our environment, to reverse the decline in populations of animals due to issues such as poaching, pollution, habitat loss due to urbanisation or deforestation, isolation of populations by monoculture for our crops and climate change (be it human or not, it is still causing damages).
This event is designed to raise money to help those charities out there that are trying to save many animals, plants and ecosystems from becoming extinct, they do this in a variety of ways, but each one does help, though they cannot do it alone. Each animal available is based off an endangered species, from the classification vulnerable to critically endangered. They all feature "spirit whisps" which show the spirit of the animal leaving the body and escaping them before their solid forms depart from this world forever. With your help they could return. -- Pirate
So, Aywas is running a conservation charity drive and offering some pretty nice incentives provided by Pirate herself! Let's take a look at them!
$5 Donation - Chinchilla Rat Bumble
Threat: Habitat loss.
$10 Donation - Gecko Lacer
Threat: Habitat loss and the pet industry.
$15 Donation - Bronze Adoptee Award Tier
Black Rhino SCC base.
Threat: Poaching for the horn.
$25 Donation - Hawksbill Sea Turtle Phanto
Threat: Shell harvesting, entrapment in fishing lines and pollution.
$35 Donation - Imperial Parrot Reve
Threat: Loss of habitat and the pet trade.
$50 Donation - Silver Adoptee Award Tier
Devil Ray SCC base.
Threat: Overfishing.
$75 Donation - Rainforest Cereus
Threat: Deforestation and monoculture.
$100 Donation - Queen Alexandra's Campe
Threat: Deforestation and monoculture.
$150 Donation - Gold Adoptee Award Tier
Snow Leopard SCC base.
Threat: Poaching and isolation by habitat loss.
All prizes above are STACKABLE. That means if you donate $10, you get the Chinchilla Rat Bumble and the Gecko Lacer. If you donate $50, you get the Bumble, Lacer, rhino SCC base, Phanto, Reve and devil ray SCC base. If you donate $150, you get the full set!
The site pets are listed as a "special" rarity, meaning this event is the only way you can obtain them (can't get them through potions, zaps, etc.)!
The adoptee award items are custom creators and let you create a silver custom using the base provided for your tier level (click on the pet image for the PSD!). We will allow up to 30% edits to keep them breedable with each other!
All donations must be made to a charity geared toward conservation.
Here's a list of some suggestions if you're stumped on what charity to choose:
Born Free
Woodland Trust
MOTE Marine Laboratory
World Wildlife Fund
Zoological Society of London
International Union for Conservation of Nature
Care for the Wild
The International Fund for Animal Welfare
Greenpeace
Friends of the Earth
(Note: Something like the RSPCA, while a great cause, is not appropriate for this particular charity drive because we are focusing on conservation.)
This event will be running through Thursday December 8th at 11:59 PM AST, so you have about a week to participate! :3
Donations are listed in USD amounts, but you may donate in another currency as long as it is at least the USD equivalent amount. If you made a donation any time from October 2011 up until the present or consistently volunteer for a conservation charity, e-mail me with some kind of proof and we'll get you your pets! Volunteers get the full set. Anyone who has already sponsored an animal for 2+ years will also receive a full set of pets, so let me know if you qualify for that as well!
E-mail me at [email protected] with your proof of donation. A screenshot of your webpage receipt or forwarding me the receipt the charity e-mails you would suffice. If you have a question regarding proof, e-mail that to me as well.
Aywas is very proud to be able to host an event like this, and we're very glad Pirate brought it to us with her passion for animals. We're a site full of animal lovers, so lets show them our support. We hope you enjoy the event and learn a little something, too!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Wed Nov 30, 2011 4:35pm
- Haberdasher
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Posted on: Wed Nov 30, 2011 6:48pm
This is a really great idea! I might donate $15, both because I want the pets and because this is a great cause! ^^
- Auranox
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Posted on: Wed Nov 30, 2011 7:05pm
OMG! This is a great idea! :D
- Glynda
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Posted on: Wed Nov 30, 2011 7:42pm
I wish it ran a little longer or started a little later. I would have money to spare if it was in another week or ran longer.
- Siilk [Team Plasma]
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Posted on: Wed Nov 30, 2011 7:43pm
I love this idea, great job Pirate! While I was happy to donate for the cancer awareness event I'm not planning to donate for this event. But I love what the intention is and am proud to be a part of a site that supports fundraising for these issues. :)
- Creatingart77
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Posted on: Wed Nov 30, 2011 8:34pm
This is so awesome! I am an Environmental Studies major in college. I will be doing this for the rest of my life!!!! Unfortunately school has taken over my money and I haven't been able to make a donation for a while :(
- Loveless
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Posted on: Wed Nov 30, 2011 9:18pm
This is a great idea :) I would donate myself but currently my finances will not permit me too. Good luck with the fundraiser those animals definitely deserve a chance.
- FuchsiMeon
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Posted on: Wed Nov 30, 2011 10:02pm
I wished I was rich. So I could spend more than just that! *goes to spend the little she has*
I love you aywas ; . ; I love you for bringing things like this to our attention!
- Dair-uisce Alainn
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Posted on: Wed Nov 30, 2011 10:44pm
Eri, would Tiger Haven (www.tigerhaven.com) count? I have "adopted" a female golden tabby tiger named Kashmir Noel there for 4 years. I even live close to them and am currently trying to get the woman who runs the place to let me volunteer :3
- TroubleClef
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Posted on: Wed Nov 30, 2011 11:13pm
I saw a few news articles and announcements on how the Black Rhino is already declared extinct in Africa... and how they haven't been seen wild in Africa since 2006 I believe (could be wrong though)? This is a great idea to help out and I hope there are plenty that can afford to do so.
Posted on: Wed Nov 30, 2011 6:47pm
I wish I had 150 dollars to spare. Going to donate what I can though! :)