I appreciate the links!

As for me, I prefer to donate my time rather than money. That way, I know the cause, the individuals involved, their motivations, and ultimately where the money that others donate will actually go. I realize that time is a commodity that some may not have much of, so they would rather give generously of currency instead. To each their own!

However, don't assume that others are uninvolved in pursuing their passions. I have a history of putting my life on the line while protecting a wildlife sanctuary in South Africa. I actually dedicated over a year of my personal time and comfort; shelled out personal funds to cover the cost of doing so. 100% voluntary, and I don't regret a minute of it! Well ... maybe some of it, but that's a story in itself. I know you probably didn't mean it to sound presumtuous when you typed "get involved in the real world", but it may come across that way to some people.

I assumed nothing, and I'm sorry if it came across that way. This is not my first language so maybe I'm missing the finer nuances there. How should I phrase it instead?
I included the sentence because I know far more furries that aren't interested or involved in helping their favourite animals than those that are. And even then, that's not ignorance or anything, it's maybe lacking an incentive or the reluctance to get involved in long subscription processes and being spammed afterwards, or maybe they just get sad when they think about the conditions in the real world.
So you worked as a ranger? That's awesome, and extremely dangerous indeed.

Looking at it again, you are right. You really didn't assume anything. I think I'm just over-analyzing stuff today. Sorry if I caused you any grief. I should have realized that German is your primary language, but even so, you clearly have a wonderful grasp of English as well.

Correct!! I was a ranger. That was a lion's age ago ... good times!

Anyway, I hope your post does encourage some folks to support their favorite cause. If my pointless meddling is in the way, please do not hesitate to hide my comments. It won't offend me one bit.

Cheers

I look into these things regularly, even got some wwf lion stuff already... I just always fear a) its just a drip on hot stones b) the money does not reach the target.
Still something has to be done. I don't know, as europeans who have driven away wolfes and lynxes mostly, still many people having fear of these precious animals, it sounds just wrong to go to africa and say "here, take my money and safe these animals while many of you are starving - oh and yes we killed our land predators, but there are better ways".
In the end it seems we learned... slowly wolfes are coming back as are lynxes. I hope the process keeps going on and I hope we can safe the majestic manecat, that our culture so often looked up upon, build statues of and that are just a great piece of nature !

Thank you for giving it some relevance!
I will look into every of these opportunities ^^

As for how much actually reaches the goal, the Lion Recovery Fund looks very promising. They assure that they don't even deduct administrative fees etc. And there's no such thing as a drip on the hot stone the way I see it. Money is the only thing that can solve these problems, or the other way round - whereever there's enough funds to pay rangers and restore the natural habitat with relatively simple measures, nature does its best to help the human effort along. It just needs the protection. Take the WWF amur tiger project for example. One of the things they needed to do was plant certain trees so the tiger's prey animals would return. And they did, and the number of amur tigers has almost doubled since I started following them. ^^ Every bit helps. A tree sapling isn't expensive. That of course still leaves the larger items open, but to have or not to have. :)