Sanctuaries PRO
Hold the parks near you.
Every real park and reserve on the map is ground somebody can hold. Pro members claim it by documenting what lives there, and a held park pays points every day, until someone with better finds takes it.
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. Pro members can claim a park once they have a few species inside it: two for a Pocket Park, up to ten for a Vast Wilderness. Claiming is a deliberate tap, not something that happens to you on the way past. Free members see the same sheet, with their count, and what it would take.
- Collect the yield. A held sanctuary pays its holder every day while they are Pro, scaled by how much of it they have documented: full yield at the tier's target, a fraction below it.
- Defend it. To take a park, a challenger's finds there have to be worth more than yours. A common species counts 1, uncommon 1.5, rare 2.5 and very rare 4, so four good finds can beat six weeds, and a tie goes to the holder. When a park is taken you are told.
A Major Preserve, wild and unclaimed: 300 points a day at full coverage.
Tiers
Bigger ground, bigger bar.
A park is tiered by its real size. Larger ground needs more species to claim and more 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 | To claim | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Pocket Park |
5 | 40 | 2 species | A single tree and a bench |
 Local Reserve |
10 | 80 | 4 species | A pond ringed with reeds |
 Regional Park |
20 | 160 | 6 species | A wooded ridge with a path |
 Major Preserve |
35 | 300 | 8 species | A valley with a river through it |
 Vast Wilderness |
50 | 500 | 10 species | 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.