I was planning to donate the couple bucks I had left over from the year to the charity called “San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance”, I was doing a background check on CharityNavigator and they gave the charity full ratings so it seemed good.
Then I stumbled upon the salary section. What the fuck? I earn <20k a year and was planning to contribute to someone’s million dollar salary? WHAT.
The Zoo near me is actually completely supported by the community. They have several acres of land and have build impressive exhibits and done work to help save endangered species via breading. They also employ quite the staff and get volunteers of all ages. It is actually pretty impressive given that they are very careful about where there funding comes from.
Some Zoos are corrupt but not all of them. Lemmy seems to want to find the corrupt evil version of everything.