<story><title>WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56416954</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scotty79</author><text>NFT doesen&amp;#x27;t work like that. After minting it has nothing to do with the initial cause.&lt;p&gt;It could work if they released and auctioned new NFT for each gorilla periodically.</text></item><item><author>tudorw</author><text>Can someone get busy wrapping endangered species as NFT&amp;#x27;s and direct the funds accordingly, timing seems about right...</text></item><item><author>skohan</author><text>Just to put this in perspective, the global population of mountain gorillas is 1,063, so this represents the symbolic adoption of over 3 times the mountain gorillas alive in the wild!&lt;p&gt;I hope this unexpected boon in capital will allow for some meaningful work in preserving and protecting these rare animals.  It would be an interesting footnote in history if we can look back in 50 years and draw a line between an internet meme, reckless asset trading, and a change in the trajectory of the fate an endangered species.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hrvTGKFyDyko3aK</author><text>You can create NFTs which programmatically collect royalties on each sale [0]. This royalty could be used for continued conservation efforts. I don&amp;#x27;t know much about programming smart contracts but I think one could be programmed such that if it isn&amp;#x27;t transferred within a certain period of time it could be burned the next time the user tries to transfer it.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rarible.com&amp;#x2F;create&amp;#x2F;erc721&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rarible.com&amp;#x2F;create&amp;#x2F;erc721&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56416954</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scotty79</author><text>NFT doesen&amp;#x27;t work like that. After minting it has nothing to do with the initial cause.&lt;p&gt;It could work if they released and auctioned new NFT for each gorilla periodically.</text></item><item><author>tudorw</author><text>Can someone get busy wrapping endangered species as NFT&amp;#x27;s and direct the funds accordingly, timing seems about right...</text></item><item><author>skohan</author><text>Just to put this in perspective, the global population of mountain gorillas is 1,063, so this represents the symbolic adoption of over 3 times the mountain gorillas alive in the wild!&lt;p&gt;I hope this unexpected boon in capital will allow for some meaningful work in preserving and protecting these rare animals.  It would be an interesting footnote in history if we can look back in 50 years and draw a line between an internet meme, reckless asset trading, and a change in the trajectory of the fate an endangered species.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colejohnson66</author><text>But the person who the money&amp;#x2F;etherium is sent to could be the charity, no? As in, people donate their digital art or whatever to a charity and the charity auctions off the NFTs to raise money.&lt;p&gt;That’s the way real life charity fundraisers sometimes work: you donate a physical object and they sell it to raise money. The benefit over you selling at and donating the money is that you don’t have to deal with selling it. The usage of NFTs here would be to take advantage of the mass hysteria(?) surrounding them to drum up the price.</text></comment>