Education boards - which topics would you like to add

Existentialist Knight

Existentialist Knight
Hello together,

so with the new update, we got some more topics for our conservation boards.
Generally, I love anything that makes the education mechanics more intricate than spamming speakers and species info boards. Therefore, I was motivated by this recent addition to start a discussion about what other topics you would like to get added to the game.

For my approach, I was inspired by an excellent thread (https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...tions-to-expand-potential-of-the-item.602495/) to create a list that offers one or two topics thematically fitting to the DLCs released so far:

Arctic:
reduction of pack ice (and thereby loss of hunting grounds for polar bears)​
arctic oil drill (delving into the risk of oil spills and the difficulty of containing and cleaning them up).​
South America:
the rain forest as a pontential natural pharmacy (and how much of this potential is lost due to deforestation and extinction of plant species)​
displacement of indigenous people (and how they manage to live in symbiosis with the rainforest)​
Australia:
bush fires (and that they don't only pose a danger to the wildlife but the humans as well)​
Aquatic:
plastic waste in the ocean​
overfishing/illegal fishing, trawl nets and by-catch of endangered species (e.g. turtles)/wounding of animals (e.g. dolphins) - might lean to much into an actual marine pack​
SEA:
Zoonosis (viral diseases that adapted from their animal reservoir to now infect humans also, e.g. HIV, Ebola, SARS-Coronaviruses) and how they arise by increased contact to humans, e.g. via animal markets or loss of habitat​
palm oil monocultures and for how many products palm oil is used​
Africa:
desertification (e.g. in the Sahel zone)​
as a niche topic the use of solar energy to prevent deforestation​
NA/Europe:
maybe western lifestyle related, e.g. the carbon footprint​
potentially also the risk of increased contact of wildlife with urban areas (e.g. foxes loking for food in trash cans; the "problem bear" Bruno, who became quite an issue in Germany)​
kills of livestock by natural predators and solutions for this problem (more specific for europe, solutions include dogs to watch over the heard, secured fences, compensation by the government)​
Wetlands:
loss of moors as a unique biome and reservoir for carbon dioxide​
Conservation:
already quite fleshed out as it sparked the idea for this thread ;)​

I would love to hear your opinions about my list as well as reading your own ideas.
 
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iloveyourzoos

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Love this idea! I use conservation boards quite a lot in my zoos near the entrance, to give my guests an extra educational boost.

  • Some things about litter, landfills, recycling, etc. Showing the human impact.
  • Vegetarianism/Veganism. (Even though I'm also the player who inevitably places a Chief Beef right next to my bovine exhibits! LOL!)
  • Light pollution (especially if we get a nocturnal pack or bird pack)
 

eviltiger13

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iloveyourzoos said:
Love this idea! I use conservation boards quite a lot in my zoos near the entrance, to give my guests an extra educational boost.

  • Some things about litter, landfills, recycling, etc. Showing the human impact.
  • Vegetarianism/Veganism. (Even though I'm also the player who inevitably places a Chief Beef right next to my bovine exhibits! LOL!)
  • Light pollution (especially if we get a nocturnal pack or bird pack)
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Nocturnal pack. Now you are speaking my language
 

eviltiger13

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I would like to see some education dedicated to the true conservationist like gerald durrell, diana Fossey, Steve Irwin, david attenborough, jane Goodall, george mottershead and Charles Darwin... just to name a few

Heck I would like to see one on the history of zoos. All the uk zoo are old and usually were manors or estates in the past. And I always enjoy reading about the how the zoo evolved

I would also like to see 3 boards dedicated to animal we have rendered extinct. The dodo, the tasmanian tiger and the quagga. I feel that those three have such tales especially the quagga.
 

Existentialist Knight

Existentialist Knight
I am amazed to see how many new ideas have been gathered so far.
iloveyourzoos said:
  • Some things about litter, landfills, recycling, etc. Showing the human impact.
  • Vegetarianism/Veganism. (Even though I'm also the player who inevitably places a Chief Beef right next to my bovine exhibits! LOL!)
  • Light pollution (especially if we get a nocturnal pack or bird pack)
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Light pollution would definitely be very unique. I am all about your second option - I always found it ironic too how a conservation-focused game only lets you serve fast food and no proper vegetarian/vegan food options:LOL:

Urufu1997 said:
Another Solution is to keep Donkeys (I think Llamas work too) together with the Herd because they seem to be really good at defending Herds against Predators
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Many thanks for that piece of information, I wasn't aware of it.

NachoB said:
g idea! For rainforest in general, also about their destruction for plantations (specially the problem with soy and palm oil) and for cattle
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I alreday mentioned palm oil, but soy and cattle are indeed another aspect of this problem (though it should be mentioned that soy is primarily grown on cleared rain forest areas as food for cattle, and not for vegetarian/vegan products). I guess it would probably fit well with SA too.

Cocolori said:
Would also love one on peatlands and why gardeners should only use peat free compost
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I suppose peatlands is a more precise term for moors? And again I could learn something new - I thought they were primarily dried up to gain new areas for agriculture, but I din't know that their earth was used in gardening.

Again, I was very glad to see all the new thought you had brought up:)
 

Cocolori

Cocolori
Existentialist Knight said:
I suppose peatlands is a more precise term for moors? And again I could learn something new - I thought they were primarily dried up to gain new areas for agriculture, but I din't know that their earth was used in gardening.
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Glad to add to your knowledge. Peatlands are a very specific biome that makes up almost 3% of the Sarah's terrestrial surface. They are basically a type of wetland where waterlogged conditions are such that decomposition is effectively halted and the organic matter gets trapped, slowly turning into peat which is incredibly nutrient rich (hence why most garden composts used to contain it until it became clear how damaging it is).

Peatland is the most efficient terrestrial carbon storage system on land and is disproportionately precious for both climate change mitigation and maintaining clean and available water. Unfortunately, once drained or dried they become big carbon emitters and take tens or even hundreds of years to restore so they are one of those specific environments that need protecting
 

NZFanatic

NZFanatic
A lot of these ideas are actually already on the conservation board, just more broadly. For example the draining of swamps, cutting down of rainforests, and so on, all comes under land sharing vs land sparing, and deforestation. Forest fires come under global warming/climate change.
 

iloveyourzoos

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On my trip to the zoo this week, I was struck by how many of these signs were very local focused. (California conservation corridor, Bay Area preservation society, etc.).

Would be very hard to implement in a world-wide game of course, but perhaps they could find a way to make on generic enough to say "support these local organizations".
 
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