Maya Higa

Anyone with an internet connection can visit our animals for free from their device from anywhere on the planet.

And they do.

Our online demographic, our online community, they range from about 17 to 28 years old.

We are our nation's new voters, new consumers and up-and-coming decision-makers.

We hold the future of this planet in our hands.

But most of our online community didn't even join with an interest in environmentalism at all.

They are just normal people, internet users who stumbled across our content in one of their many, many feeds.

Alvea Sanctuary brings conservation to young people largely by meeting them where they already are, which is on social media.

But before social media, TV programming was establishing the best examples of conservationists, right?

Heroes like Steve Irwin and David Attenborough and Jane Goodall.

These are obviously some of my personal heroes, probably some of yours, as well as they should be.

These guys rock, right?

But for most of us, it can be really hard to see ourselves in such legends.

It leaves us feeling like that work is just a far-off dream that only other people achieve.

But at Alves, that dream doesn't feel so far off.

For our viewers, Alves is a dream that one of them achieved from within a space that they're already a part of.

And they get to be a part of it all live.

So we're just getting started.

Our next step is taking this Alvaeus approach to the wild.

We're building a new facility where we're going to breed endangered species at Alvaeus for reintroduction and release into the wild.