Conservation status Puns

Hello Algorand Community! (And everyone else!)

The past week has been incredibly busy and exciting for AlgOcean Project and the community. We are doing our best to develop the Community, the Game, and the Ocean Conservation aspects of our project diligently without neglecting any aspect of it (It's almost like our own Trilemma). We have some SUPER exciting news/updates to share with the community. Here's the outline:

1. Ocean Conservation Partnerships Update

2. ASA Token News (AO-409604194)

3. Beta Progress

4. Other aspects of AlgOcean Project (AO Faucet, Oceanaut NFTs, Website)

5. Concluding Remarks

6. Ocean Conservation Partnerships Status/Update/Plan

a. Marine Megafauna Foundation:

This is where it's MOST exciting for us. Our partnership with Marine Megafauna Foundation has been phenomenal. We have been mentioned in their magazine as many of our members donated and adopted/sponsored several endangered Ocean Giants (https://marinemegafauna.org/ocean-giants). The magazine itself is a fantastic read as well.

MMF also has an official ALGORAND wallet for donations!!! (I don't think I'm allowed to post that here but it's in our discord in #algo-address channel). Our community member, Drigz, also made the coolest looking custom QR code for MMF's Algo Wallet. ANY donations to MMF as AlgOcean Community member will get rewarded with AO tokens! Our community has donated quite a bit so far!

Dr. Simon Pierce, co-founder of MMF, is currently on another fieldwork (maybe swimming somewhere in the ocean with all the Whale Sharks), but once he is back sometime next week, he happily suggested that he would love to meet the community through a Voice-Call or AMA. We are going to plan this before our launch and we'll also reward ALL participants generously of this first AMA with AO Tokens! So stay tuned!

b. The Ocean Cleanup (https://theoceancleanup.com/)

This foundation is big. They are also quite well-known (especially with #teamseas movement and Mr. Beast and etc.) They have also replied back to us expressing the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of our support, but nothing of official 'partnership', which I can respect. The nature of this 'acknowledgement', to my best understanding, is that they recognize us as supporters but they won't be accepting Algo or AO token, and we would have to very careful in using their name in our Projects and events.

c. The Sea Turtle Conservancy ([https://con

How much the government and the public have planned to conserve the environment around them and how much progress they made in implementing those plans? Rate it on the scale of 1-10.

Hey all, I am currently in my undergrad for wildlife ecology. I've taken a few plant classes though, and am hoping that I can weasel my way into a masters for botany when I finish. Even though they aren't totally related--

Oops there's me monologuing again. Anyways I was just hoping some kind people could give me a bit of insight about some things.

I was wondering how complete the conservation statuses are for plants? I assume figuring that out for a given species would be a lot of field work? Does anyone have some knowledge about how this is done?

Imagine how amazing it would be to be out there in the field collecting data on plants to figure out that information. That would be a dream job for sure.

Thanks for reading

I can't find any definitive info on this!! Thanks!