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RE: Cormorant dries on buoy, Prospect Park, Brooklyn NY
protect, and even reinvigorate some endangered species.
I've thought something similar about an app I'd like to work on. Sort of like Pokemon Go, but with real wildlife. Folks could "capture" creatures by spotting them in the wild, and sharing location so others could go look for the creature in the same area. We participate in the annual bird count, and I envision something like that, but value share as incentive. Rewards for being the first to spot and document something, for instance....
I don't remember if I showed you this before, but I even mentioned Pokemon Go. ;-)
The only drawback I have thought of is that you'd have to make sure that incentives don't cause people to intentionally make animals more rare in order to increase their in-game value.
Haha! Nope, I never read that article of yours. Fascinating that we came up with such a similar idea.
In my version (in my head—I also didn't find the time to flesh it out or implement it), there are stakeholders like wildlife refuges, rehabilitation centers, nature societies, and so on who could customize the "games" to be on brand and whatnot. In that case, I was designing specifically for the Steem blockchain; I thought it could be their funds that supported the Steem community, which would make sense from a marketing perspective for them.
Anyway, we can add it to the list of ideas we should work on together. Thanks for linking!
Oi! I hadn't even thought about drawbacks.
It's probably not the only one, but definitely worth considering!