FINDING ALLIES

On helping real-world conservationists perserve the rhino

We Are The Caretakers makes use of consultation with scientists and enforcers at the Wildlife Conservation Network. Ten per cent of revenues from the game’s early access release are being donated to the WCN’s Rhino Recovery Fund. According to the latter, there are only 25,000 rhinos remaining in Asia and Africa, their numbers devastated by habitat loss as well as poaching (rhino horns are prized as art objects and folk remedies). The consultants aren’t just knowledge sources, but a basis for characters. “We’ve pieced together a variety of experiences, and tried to use those all as inspiration,” Brodie says.