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10. It's sad about the Desert Tortoises. The money is *there*, it's a question of

how to get it into the right hands.

I wonder about how to do that.
There has to be some gov't guaranteed involvement for anything of the scale "protecting the ecology" to work, even if in an 'sustaining idle' mode. There has to be gov't regulation, if only to guarantee that funds from gov't and private donations are well spent and not pocketed by some hot-shot entrepreneur.

As for private donations, the will is there. Witness the public reaction to the story of the puppy blinded by cataracts that were removed after donations that provided operating funds for the charity generally, for all the other dogs.. I believe the idea of "funds for a sound ecology" would be viewed favorably, but only if all funding, from gov't or from charity, is subject to strict regulation and an enforcement arm.

After reading Plucketeer's message I looked up "Desert Tortoise" and found
http://rt.com/usa/desert-tortoises-euthanize-nevada-024/
Now, whatever one might think about RT, and some have strongly negative thoughts, insomuch as that article correctly describes the *financing* of that desert turtle conservation center, it describes a totally negative, ecologically unfriendly funding model.
That model is an abomination.
The funding comes from *fines* against developers who destroy desert turtle habitat -- so the conservation center depends on that *destruction*.
So what do they do when they've destroyed it all, the species is near extinct? No more funds come in so they shut down the center and euthanize most of the endangered turtles.