The Charity Battle

The Wild Green Charity Battle is an annual conservation fundraiser organized by Wild Green Future and hosted in the Wild Green Memes for Ecological Fiends Facebook group. Group members divide into nature themed gangs based on their favorite ecological interests and compete to see which gang can raise the most money for conservation and win bragging for the following year. Every winning gang from previous battles is listed below.

The 2026 Charity Battle is happening now! Will one of the previous years' winners reclaim their place as the reigning champion, or will a new gang rise to the occasion? ONLY TIME WILL TELL!

Herp Gang

CB I, II, & VII Winner

Winners of the first two, and seventh, Charity Battles, Herp Gang is for anyone interested in herpetology, the study of reptiles and amphibians. While these two animal groups are not closely related, it’s the humans who adore them that share so much in common. Signs of belonging to Herp Gang include, but are not limited to: trekking through the rainy woods at night during a salamander migration, getting stinky snake musk on your hands, failing to find that especially loud unseen calling frog, declaring “I like turtles!” on a regular basis, and involuntarily shouting “Crikey!” at the sight of a crocodilian.

Herp Gang is the ONLY gang to participate in every Charity Battle (for now), and after years outside the champion's box, they managed to pull off a surprise comeback victory in 2025! Like a hidden Budgett’s frog in murky water, Herp Gang patiently awaits an opportunity, ready to strike when the time is right with a victorious “WAEAEAEAAAAWWEEEEEW!”

Trash Mob

CB III Winner

Wild Green Future provided naturalist CJ with a microgrant to assist with materials costs for bat houses at a recreational campground in Ohio.

The bat houses were specifically designed to provide shelter for summer maternal bat colonies of Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis). The campground also provided bat observation booklets to educate its young campers about these underappreciated animals. 

Corvid Council

CB IV Winner

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Translation: Corvid Council is comprised of crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, treepies, choughs, nutcrackers, and (non-Australian) magpies. Members of Corvid Council enjoy shiny things, knick knacks, baubles, doodads, trinkets, curios, tchotchkes, and things that are shiny. 

Wild Green Unqualified Team

CB V Winner

This gang is for all those with a passion for wildlife yet no super sciencey credentials. If you think sharkskin feels like olives, you qualify! If you think a mountain chicken is a featherless biped, you qualify! If you can’t remember the genus names for the common octopus, bison, gorilla, iguana, or sequoia, you qualify! If you think that shrimps is bugs, you qualify! If you think El Chupacabra is an especially friendly rodent of unusual size that looks like a giant guinea pig, you qualify! If you’re feeling unqualified in any way, then you immediately qualify (this phenomenon is known as the Toco’s Unqualification Paradox)! If you have a PhD in botany but cannot ID a single mushroom species, you qualify! If you have a PhD in mycology but cannot ID a single plant species, you qualify!

Members of Wild Green Unqualified team enjoy long walks on the beach, which are only long because they have to stop and ask a more qualified person the names of all the seashells and seaweed.

Animalia Marginalia

CB VI Winner

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Can you read text written with a long “f”? Do you dream of being a knight on fnailback, fighting a giant rabbit with a fword? Have you feen Henry, the depreffed sloth, in your nightmaref? Do you think birdf lookf kind of suspiciouf? Then Animalia Marginalia might be the champion gang for you!