educational games for sustainable conservation financing

designed to teach basic principles of ecology and environmental economics while raising money to help fund conservation efforts.

The Games

Urban Carnivores
Track prey across a fragmented urban landscape. Learn about the habitat and dietary needs of predators, as well as the role of migratory corridors.

Support urban wildlife with camera traps, the construction of wildlife over and underpasses, and compensatory funds covering loss through predation. Curriculum development assistance: big cat biologist Miguel Ordeñana.

Gondwana
Choose your Amazon parrot avatar and take flight. Forage for enough nuts and seeds to fuel your migration from roosting place to roosting place where you can gather with other parrots to share information about your fossilized ancestors and unlock the ancient secrets of Gondwanaland.

Learn about the wide-ranging habitat requirements of parrots, as well as the importance of dispersed information gathering. Support reforestation efforts and anti-poaching incentive payments in the tropics and cage exchanges in the US and Canada. Curriculum development assistance: parrot author & activist Mira Tweti.

Junior Rangers
Don your ranger hat and vest and choose your favorite endangered species.. Secure parcels of land, restore habitat, and establish your own private reserve. 

Learn about the ecology of your chosen biome, as well as natural resource management techniques and the competing interests of neighboring towns and villages. Support real-life junior ranger programs in biodiverse regions of the developing world. Play in your classroom and engage teachers and students in other countries in peer-to-peer distance learning. Curriculum development assistance: retired NPS ranger (and direct payment for conservation pioneer) Rick Smith and the guardaparquitos of Nicaragua.

Panga!
Choose your own fighting adventure with your favorite boat and fishing style -- you can freedive, spearfish, or casta a line or net. Compete with other fishers to catch a limited number of fish.

Learn about sustainable fisheries, incidental bycatch, and marine habitat. Support sea turtle and cetacean conservation. Curriculum development assistance: Brad Nahill of SEEtheWILD and ICAPO.