Save wildlife habitat with our click group

The WPM has saved more than 57 acres of natural habitat for wildlife through our click group at EcologyFund, and an additional 75 acres through sponsorship of click schemes at EcologyFund and Care2.com. Most of this land is rainforest brought under the protection of conservation organizations in Central America.

Currently we focus our efforts on EcologyFund, where we have a click group with over 370 members. We have saved more land than any other religious group there, more land even than any of the environmental groups there (including Sierra Club and WWF groups), and we are in the top ten list of all groups saving land.

Why does this matter?

If the state of the planet bothers you, then here's a contribution you can offer that makes a really worthwhile difference. It costs you nothing - just half a minute of your time per day. It's not an alternative to greening up your life - see our page on the practical details - but it's a valuable addition.

Each person who clicks every day, at the current total of 87 sq ft per day, can save almost three quarters of an acre of wildlife habitat per year from development or exploitation! That's almost 32,000 sq ft.

This has benefits for the climate as well as for biodiversity. If this area were cleared for farming, it could emit up to half a year's carbon dioxide emissions of the average American – or a year's emissions for an average European. So your daily clicking is helping to prevent that from happening.

Rainforest is the most biodiverse habitat on earth.  Just one acre contains around 300-400 individual trees of 20 to 80 different species, and each tree is home to thousands more species. The images on this page show some of the hundreds of plants growing up a single huge tree in Costa Rica, each one with their own attendant court of fungi and animals. One tree in Peru was found to house 43 different species of ant.

If it's free for me - who pays?

After you click on a button, you are shown the next page which includes ads for eco-friendly companies and non-profits. The  payments from these advertisers goes to fund nature conservation organizations. These organizations in turn spend the funds on buying up private land in sensitive areas to dedicate in perpetuity to wildlife habitat. Basically then your clicking is stimulating organizations and companies to spend money on conserving wildlife habitat.

How do I know this is for real?

The World Pantheist Movement has direct experience that it works, because we advertise with EcologyFund from time to time. When we advertise, our check is  made out to and posted directly to the conservation organization we wish to sponsor – in our case the World Land Trust USA. EcologyFund does not take a percentage cut. World Land Trust undertakes to preserve one acre of habitat for every $100 donated.

Why is the WPM so keen on this?

For the World Pantheist Movement, preserving the diversity of life has always been a top priority. As our belief statement says:

We are an integral part of Nature, which we should cherish, revere and preserve in all its magnificent beauty and diversity.

Of course you can save land on your own - but being in a team that can show visible collective results is a good motivation to stick at it and not forget, and it gives the excitement and satisfaction not only of your own totals but also those of the group.

How do I join your group?

To join our Save Rainforest group:

1. Register with Ecology Fund
2. Join the WPM group.
   [Scroll down to us & click JOIN]
3. Start clicking and clocking land.
   Make the Save Land page your first Web visit each day.
4. Remember to keep clicking.
   Make http://www.ecologyfund.com/registry/ecology/donate_home.html
   your home page so it’s there first thing every time you go on the Internet, or make a bookmark.
   If you think you might forget, write to ...@EcologyFund.com?subject=Daily Reminder">i...@EcologyFund.com to ask for a daily email reminder.

Make sure your clicks count!
Troubleshooting Guide

EcologyFund uses cookies stored on your computer to link up your daily clicks with your EcologyFund identity. They need this so they know it's you who are clicking, and can add your clicks to your own total and that of the group you belong to. Without the cookie, your clicks will still save land, but they will not count towards your own achievements or the WPM's.

In this era of firewalls and browser security settings and ad and popup blockers, it’s very easy for cookies to get disabled or deleted. If that happens, then your clicks will not register for you or for the World Pantheist Movement.

It’s really worthwhile for everyone to check regularly that things are as they should be. So here’s information on what you should see if everything is working properly – and how to put it right if it's not.

Check regularly that your clicks are counting

Look in the left-hand pane on the Save Land page.
Everything is good if you can see

• Your name and totals under under "My EcologyFund",
• The WPM name and totals under "My Group Info," and
• They both increase when you click on the save land buttons.

I can't see my name in the left hand panel under "My EcologyFund"

1. Delete the EcologyFund cookie.
   • Internet Explorer: Go to Tools/Internet Options/General/
     Under "Browsing history" Choose Settings/View Files
     Sort by site, find ecologyfund.com or www.ecologyfund.com and delete all ecologyfund cookies. OK out of all the dialogue boxes.
     
   • Firefox: Go to Tools/Options/Privacy, click on the "Show Cookies" button, find ecologyfund and delete all ecologyfund cookies. Close all the dialogue boxes.
2. Re-register with EcologyFund
   Just your name and email. Make sure you use the same email you used when you first registered. Click the "Register" button down at the bottom.
3. When it tells you you are registered, MAKE SURE you click on the link "Click here to return to Ecologyfund's home page to begin free donations." This is VERY important. If you just go on using your existing bookmark link,  the re-registering process may not work.
4. If the above steps don't work, make sure your browser allows cookies from EcologyFund.
   • Internet Explorer: Go to Tools/Internet Options/Privacy/Sites, paste or type in http://www.ecologyfund.com/ and click Allow and OK.
   • Firefox: Go to Tools/Options/Privacy, click on the Exceptions Button, paste or type in http://www.ecologyfund.com/ and click Allow and Close.

I can see my name but my totals don't increase when I click.

Go through steps 1-4 above.

I can't see the WPM name on the left under "My Group Info."

Have you joined the WPM group? If not Register with Ecology Fund and Join the WPM group.

The total donations under the WPM don't increase when I click.

This is a cookie problem. See above under individual totals.

If all else fails

Write to ...@EcologyFund.com?subject=Cookie Problem">webm...@EcologyFund.com and describe your problem. They can send you a link to reset your cookie.