A funny thing happened last Thursday. For a brief hour or so Jenny and I became the custodians of billions of conservation dollars. ‘Huh?’, you say?
At approximately 12.30 pm the mysterious Jeffrey Green donated a little over $2 billion to our crowd-funding campaign. Sadly the money disappeared within an hour or so. We never really thought the donation was real, but it was fun to think what it might mean for both the Big Roo Count, and more broadly and importantly Australia’s biodiversity.
Professor Possingham has estimated that if federal and state governments invested $200 million a year we could secure all of Australia’s threatened species. So imagine what more than 500 times that would mean! To put things in perspective, the federal defence budget is roughly $26 billion a year. Stop its budget for three days and you could save all threatened species in Australia.
Imagine… we’re ready!
P.S. Jeff, if you really are keen to donate to our campaign we are ready to receive and make good!
Applied ecology and conservation research group 
4 replies on “A funny thing happened last Thursday”
I would have had a heart attack, then become very angry at the insolence of such an act.
Such a shame it wasn’t real.
We wish it was real as well Simon, who knows, one day hey? 🙂
I have only raised about $5000 thru GoFundme for my new dingo enclosures, then it dried up.
I guess one needs a publicity fund raising manager to raise the funds we need for further study and research. You see so much wasted by Govt Expenditure, they spend money like there is no tomorrow.
Yup, just look at Lomborg http://conservationbytes.com/2015/04/22/something-rotten-from-denmark/