LET'SCONSERVATION
The fundamental threat to wildlife landscapes is broken money.
We can help fix it.
LET'S REVIEW
Solving conservation
The threats to wildlife landscapes have not changed in decades; arguably they are worse now than they’ve ever been- despite billions in funding.
The honest question for conservation therefore remains: are we making the impact required?
Some may argue that achieving a remedy is only a question of scale- just throw more money at the problem, or that it’s overpopulation, or rather it is the politics and policies that are inhibitory.
Maybe the ultimate driver is not being addressed?
“82% of Africa’s savannah conservation land is failing or deteriorating.”
LET’S DIAGNOSE
Solving conservation
Poaching
Illegal hunting & fishing is theft- sometimes by organized crime, but mostly ubiquitous in the wildlife landscape as individuals harvest for themselves & the bush meat trade.
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash
Deforestation
Habitats are either eliminated entirely for slash-and-burn agriculture, or selectively over-harvested for hardwoods and traditional medicine, with knock-on effects on associated species.
Conversion
Wildlife landscapes suffer encroachment from livestock, crops or even habitation, sometimes as a result of the custodians’ limitations, but often enabled by political pressure and corruption. With it comes poaching & security challenges, and the future of these conservation areas become uncertain.
HIGH-TIME PREFERENCE
When individuals do not value their future enough, they prioritise short term gains, behaving with less concern for others and their future selves. Sometimes it’s for survival, sometimes it’s because they don’t value Nature as part of everyone’s future. Extraction today is valued more than stewardship for tomorrow.
LOW ECONOMIC FREEDOM
Economic freedom is the degree to which we are sovereign over our own labour & property. It is eroded by overt government regulations & bureaucracy, weak property rights, poor quality money, capital controls, collapsing rule-of-law, corruption & bribery. People with low economic freedom are prone to high time preference behaviour.
BROKEN MONEY
A debt-based monetary system leads to currency debasement, price inflation/wage deflation, an increasing wealth gap and the inability to save. Investment (=risk) is required just to maintain the purchasing power of one’s earnings- and this option is not even available to most. Power centralises in the state whilst individual sovereignty is reduced- society slowly destablises with increasing anomie as economic freedom erodes.
“We can’t save the wildlife, if we can’t save the people.
If conservation wants to solve socio-economic problems,
then we need to start understanding economics.”
Efoetse, Madagascar.6000 people living in proximity to one of the last remaining populations of ring-tailed lemur.
What can we do
Four ways we protect the wild
We combine field science, local employment, and open finance to deliver conservation that scales.
Wildlife monitoring
Track and protect endangered species with transparent, on-chain funding and real-time ranger reporting.
Community rangers
Train and equip local rangers using Bitcoin-backed grants that bypass slow legacy payment rails.
Habitat restoration
Restore the grasslands, waterholes, and corridors that elephants, lions, and rhinos depend on.
Education & outreach
Build conservation literacy in schools and villages so the next generation becomes the steward of the wild.
Impact
Impact you can verify
Every donation is traceable, every ranger salary is accounted for, and every hectare protected is logged on a public dashboard.
12,000+
Animals monitored
340
Rangers supported
8
Protected landscapes
100%
Donation transparency
On the ground
The landscapes, species, and people your support protects
Elephant patrol
Grassland giants
Photo by Wolfgang Hasselmann on Unsplash
Sunset migration
Photo by Mylon Ollila on Unsplash
Field work
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