Sanctuaries
Hold the parks near you.
Every real park and reserve on the map is ground somebody can hold. Whoever has documented the most species inside it holds it, and it pays them points every day — until someone documents more.
How it works
Document it. Claim it. Defend it.
- Find species inside the boundary. Every catch made within a park counts toward your tally there. The map shows your share — 3 of 10 species here.
- Claim it, standing there. Once you are ahead of the current holder, a claim button appears on the map. Claiming is a deliberate tap, not something that happens to you on the way past.
- Collect the yield. A held sanctuary pays its holder every day, scaled by how much of it they have documented: full yield at the tier's target, a fraction below it.
- Defend it. Anyone who documents more species there than you can take it. When they do, you are told — the taker is not, because they were standing there pressing the button.
Boyd Lake: held, a tenth documented, paying a tenth of its yield. 
Home keeps a running line on what you hold.
Tiers
Bigger ground, bigger bar.
A park is tiered by its real size. Larger ground needs more species documented to reach full yield, and pays more when it gets there. Each tier also has its own sticker, earned by holding one.
Points from territory are score, like everything else — they move the leaderboard, and your private score breakdown shows exactly how much of your total came from ground you hold.
| Tier | Species for full yield | Points / day | |
|---|---|---|---|
 Pocket Park |
5 | 40 | A single tree and a bench |
 Local Reserve |
10 | 80 | A pond ringed with reeds |
 Regional Park |
20 | 160 | A wooded ridge with a path |
 Major Preserve |
35 | 300 | A valley with a river through it |
 Vast Wilderness |
50 | 500 | A mountain range under open sky |
Where the parks come from
Real places, real boundaries.
Sanctuaries are the parks, reserves and protected areas already recorded by naturalists and mapmakers — not zones the game invented. The boundary is the park's own, so standing well inside a large state park counts as being in it, and a lake in the middle of one is not somewhere the game expects you to go.