Tracking down shark poachers is a tricky process.  Check out these quick tips to navigating the underwater mazes:

1.    Don’t swim into a hook.  Those things are crazy sharp; instead bite the boxes that make them move.  A disabled hook is a harmless hook.
2.    Use your mini-map. Make sure you are using your mini-map to see where you’ve been, where you should go, and in which areas the poachers might lurk!
3.    Find the poachers.  While collecting coins and freeing sharks is important, the main goal is to catch the poachers.  Focus on finding their boat! Remember it’s a boat, so its will be floating on the waters surface at the top of the map.
4.    Watch out for the walls.  Lots of plants and mud on the surface of the ocean floor can grab onto you and make you get stuck to the cave walls.  When this happens, swimming back into the wall helps you get free.

The ultimate goal is to keep all of the patrol zones free from poachers.  As long as there is a demand for illegal animal products, the poachers will keep coming back, so make sure you patrol often.

If you have questions or suggestions for the other Elves out there patrolling waters of the Galapagos for poachers, post them here.   If we all work together we can make a big difference!

Beginning tomorrow, January 29th, Islanders will have the opportunity to join WildAid in their quest to protect sharks in the Galapagos Islands. Almost 25% of the World’s species of sharks are in danger of becoming extinct. You can help by Gaming for Good and accepting the challenge through Elf Island’s GoodQuest game.

Join Elf Island’s Shark GoodQuest and go undercover as a shark and navigate your way through undersea mazes filled with dangerous poacher traps. Through this intense time-based game you will free captured sharks and find and tag the poacher’s boat with a GPS unit, so the poachers can be stopped and arrested.

Islanders, together we have 30-days to clear 30,000 zones of the virtual poachers. It’s a lofty goal, but we know that you are ready to stop these illegal fishermen and make a difference by Gaming for Good.

By reaching this collective goal, Elf Island and WildAid will repair REAL boats used by the REAL park wardens in the Galapagos National Park, so that more REAL poachers can be kept off the water.

You can make a difference. Start your GoodQuest tomorrow!

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