Donation Machine

Maguari · 31 Jul 2009

PAT said:
Is it just me or does the one that has raised the most money have the smallest effect on saving orang-utans.

I would say so. It has two things to its advantage in terms of getting donations - it's something that the zoo visitors (consciously or not) perceive they will get a direct benefit from as well, and it's at position 1, so anyone who just wants a badge and doesn't really care where the money goes will probably choose that one.

CZJimmy · 31 Jul 2009

For the record, I went for option 5

mark77 · 31 Jul 2009

it might also show just how much value the general public place in being able to visit zoos to see the animals. Those too close to the zoo world, the zoo operators, fanatics, antis, staff etc forget that is what zoo visitors are interested in.

Everything else, the conservation/education message is hopefully being quietly absorbed and the valuable work done (inside and outside) by zoos is hugely done despite being a visitor attraction. Both increasingly so.

bongorob · 1 Aug 2009

I voted for number 2. I left my badge in the tray for some lucky child to have.

foz · 1 Aug 2009

Out of those I would vote for number two. There was the gorilla equivlent of this machine in Gorilla kingdome, London zoo. I think I can't remember which one I voted for but all the badges were the same. I think this is a reall good idea and gives visitors an easy way to see directly where their money is going.

Pygathrix · 2 Aug 2009

CZJimmy said:
I believe Congo at the Bronx has a similar system.

In CGF you have to pay an extra fee ($3 when I went a few years back) to get in, and at the end you choose one of four conservation projects where you want your donation to go. I'm not sure if they tell you this at the entrance, if they do I didn't notice it and was a bit peeved about the added fee (I usually hate them) until I realised it didn't actually go to the zoo and you had an element of choice. Also I went on a free day so didn't pay the main entrance fee so I can't complain really.

CZJimmy · 2 Aug 2009

Pygathrix said:
In CGF you have to pay an extra fee ($3 when I went a few years back) to get in, and at the end you choose one of four conservation projects where you want your donation to go. I'm not sure if they tell you this at the entrance, if they do I didn't notice it and was a bit peeved about the added fee (I usually hate them) until I realised it didn't actually go to the zoo and you had an element of choice. Also I went on a free day so didn't pay the main entrance free so I can't complain really.

When I referred to CGF, I meant that people have the chance to choose where the money goes (I had forgotten about London's near exact system when I first wrote it)

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