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RE: collecting funds
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by earthguy on September 2, 2009
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Sujan,
You have several options. You could form a not-for-profit organization from the ground up. If you did that you would have total control over which herps you focus on conserving. This is the most difficult (and least efficient) means. It also has the disadvantage of potentially taking funds from established organizations.
Option two would be to find an organization that already does what you want to do and support them (both financially and personally). You may not be able to find one specifically for what you want to conserve, but you should be able to find on that is pretty close. I support several different organizations (from local to international)
Option three is to remember that herp conservation by itself is useless without conserving the ecosystems that support. You could lend your support to an organization that seeks to preserve nature in general, and herps by proxy.
Just be sure that when you start looking, you take into account things like who else supports the organization (you probably want to avoid groups supported by ecoterrorists, but not necessarily), how much money actually goes to conservation (as opposed to overhead), and the long time survivability of the group (you don't want to put a whole lot of effort into a group that isn't going to be around long enough to do any good)
A few groups off the top of my head: Gharial Conservation , WWF, The Nature Conservancy, and SHHS ;)
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by Crotalusssp on September 2, 2009
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The Nature Conservancy is a great one. I have worked with them and Earth Foundation in the past on fund raisers to purchase land in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil.
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