Those shirts are really cool. What does your purchase really do at Kapidolo Farms?

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2017 Kapidolo Farms conservation contributions.

$100.00 https://www.gofundme.com/save-the-albera-testudo-h-hermanni

$79.80 Direct purchase of 100 nano chips for implanting wild Indotestudo forsetnii

$100 https://experiment.com/projects/conservation-efforts-to-protect-endangered-turtles-of-sulawesi

$900 TTPG life memberships paid directly to TTPG in consideration of lower price on captive bred Manouria emys phayrei. http://www.ttpg.org/

Total: $1179.80, considerably more than my commitment to pass on the 3% saved on sales with the use of 'friends and family'. Money matters, voting with your dollars is everyday, not just in a booth during November.


Those shirts will bring more funds to the 'Turtle Conservation Society of Malaysia'. When I purchased the fabric they got their first contribution (Purchase of materials). When you order a shirt, they will receive the contribution directly from you (Purchase of labor, thanks to my wife Tamara). That is cool. And the shirts look good too.

I do these kinds of things as direct to the entity, I have no administration 'take' in the process. TTPG was paid directly by those three new lifetime members. The PIT tags were shipped directly to the PI. Frankly I don't know if the on-line fund raising platforms have a 'take' or they rely on advertisement.

I prefer to never handle the $$ directly when promoting wildlife conservation, and I think I'm reasonable good at sourcing efforts that will have measurable results. I have not thought about wildlife conservation efforts as being places where I donate $$, but rather as places where I buy wildlife conservation. I like turtles so that gets most of my purchasing power.

Buy a shirt, help people in another country keep their chelonian conservation as in-situ as they are.

Will Espenshade, Biologist
Kapidolo Farms
 
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