r/conservation

I don’t want this to come off the wrong way but how do we get Asian/South Eastern Asia/India to care enough about their wildlife to begin more conservation measures? I feel like that region of the world has the most diverse wildlife populations and yet they are all almost poached to extinction? Like I said I don’t want that to come off as racist and i understand that there are economic factors that have largely caused this but what are ways that would work culturally to improve the survival of these species?

I own some private land that I would like to protect from illegal logging but I need to maintain a presence there. I was considering using it for tourism but it's remote and everyone I've talked to about it has been a poltroon. What else could I do?

I was curious to know how much funding is deployed to conservation efforts near me. I started by pulling a list of organizations using conservation-related tax codes, and cross referencing with the Land Trust Alliance and a few other sources. Financial records for 501(c)3 non-profit organizations in the U.S. are publicly accessible. So, once I had a list of organizations, I was able to fetch recent financial records for all organizations. I then plotted all funding values on the map using the organization's location.

The largest organizations are active all over the world, so their values should be excluded from any sort of local analysis. The area near DC, for example, shows billions in funding due to organizations such as the Nature Conservancy.

Curious to hear what y'all glean from this. Is there anything you'd like to see included in the map?

I had a realisation that I really want to study wildlife conservation for uni, and I am currently going into Alevels. My current subjects have absolutely nothing to do with wildlife conservation (comp sci, math, phys, psych), and I had never studied biology or geography in my gcses. I had looked online, and while some universities do offer foundation courses, my parents are quite strict with which unis are 'good enough', and none of these unis happen to have a foundation course. Does anyone know anything I could do to help me be able to study wildlife conservation and hopefully find jobs in this area in the future?

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but my kids were watching a few youtubers that were obviously fake conservationists. One claims to own a conservation but then I heard them talking about getting an animal from a breeder. I'm wondering if anyone knows of any legitimate sites I could turn to as I don't want to be supporting people that are harming or exploiting animals for views. Its so hard to find legitimate videos out there, I feel like they're all scams. Any suggestions?