I have been a long-standing donor and adopter at Durrell Wildlife conservation Trust. I have newly updated my membership to lifetime and increased my adoption level to Silver (Mr S Sokolov – Norway). Still, there is much more that can and should be done for the conservation of wildlife on our fragile planet.
The famous naturalist and the founder of the first zoo (on Jersey), aimed at study and conservation of endangered species, Gerald Durrell once wrote: “Animals and plants have nobody to speak for them except us, the human beings who share the world with them but do not own it.”
When I was first introduced to Bitcoins, I thought that they would be an ideal medium for micro-donations, especially with the growing user- and miner base of the new global currency.
This is a fund-raising campaign that I would like to start, using Bitcoins as the base currency. Please make your micro-donations to the address below or scan the address QR code in the upper right corner of the post
If you don’t have Bitcoins, please donate or otherwise help Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust in any way you can, by proceeding to their site.
At the end of each month, if at least 1 Bitcoin is raised, I will convert BTC to GBP and transfer them to the Trust as a Donation from my account there. I will then update this post stating how much was transferred to the Trust in terms of GBP.
For the hall of fame, you are welcome to leave comments, stating how much you donated, or embed messages in the blockchain.
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It is the end of the month.
Not much activity was noticed on 1DodoExzsNPvVRXFrgkKw6E259VjfUW8Kh
I made an initial deposit of 0.1 BTC, I was also sending out free bitcoin requests to this address
Total accumulated sum over the last month is thus 0.10730912BTC = £10.24 at today’s MtGox rate.
To minimise the costs, I am going to absorb any conversion rates. This means that I am transferring the BTC funds to my account, while sending Durrell Wildlife conservation trust a donation in British Pounds at today’s conversion rate, rounded up to the nearest GBP = £11.
The donation of £11 with Reference No: 130430-9097 was sent and marked with the following note:
The campaign continues. Please donate anything between 0.1 BTC and 0.001 BTC to 1DodoExzsNPvVRXFrgkKw6E259VjfUW8Kh Every little helps!
Two weeks ago I wrote the following letter to Anne-Marie Neal, an assistant fundraiser at the Trust. As I am still awaiting their answer, I decided to make the letter open to the public.
It so happens that I received a reply from the Trust on the same day as I transferred the donation. Here it is:
The answer is slightly non-committal, but it is still a positive start.
Now, let us show the world that Bitcoins, like any other currency has many uses, and charity is one of them!
I have received a thank-you communique from Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust today:
It is wonderful and gratifying to know that we are making a difference.
With this month’s economic developments and the general hedging of the Bitcoin economy, not many donations were sent so far.
The account currently holds 0.0039925 BTC
Still, a slower economy dies not mean that a small donation to the good cause will make you broke, on the contrary, it will make you feel much better.
Send your donations to 1DodoExzsNPvVRXFrgkKw6E259VjfUW8Kh or scan the QR code in my profile. Let’s make more headlines and show that Bitcoin economy is here to stay.
As for my part, I am committed to absorbing all conversion fees and rounding the resulting GBP value up before it is sent to the Trust.
Now, let’s try to reach that 0.1 BTC before the month’s end! 🙂
The status report from 31st of May:
It’s time for the end-of-month status report.
First of all, big thank you to Philj for donating BTC0.05 (~ £4,5) as a response to my squirrel story at the Economy speculations sub-forum. This is the second major donation coming from the community.
The current balance is BTC0.05808127.
The amount is a bit small to make a payout to the Trust, so I am carrying it over to the next month, in the hope that we will make at least that BTC0.1 Also, if BTC price continues to crawl up, the Trust will receive a slightly larger sum next month than today.
Despite the hight BTC price, the economy can be described as cautious. In the current climate day-trading is boring at best, and lossy at worst. But a small donation to a good cause, will always make you feel good. Just see for yourself what Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is achieving: http://www.durrell.org/Conservation
The end of June saw BTC0.05943466 accumulated in the charity wallet, which corresponds to just £3.84 at today’s conversion rate
So, no payout again this month, while waiting for the people to become more conscientious about the natural environment and its conservation.
Maybe soon, once the post-bubble events calm down…