Cassandra Sorothin Wildlife Protection Fund

The was an environmental and animal rights organization founded late in the fifth century A.U. by Aeldrum socialite Marie in honor of her friend, Cassandra Sorothin. At the time of Grand Strategy 2 it was the largest environmental and animal rights organization on Aeldrum and led by Gregory Lawe, brother of Sermayan media mogul Reagan Lawe.
== Founding of the Wildlife Protection Fund ==
Distraught by her friend's tragic suicide, Marie entered a deep depressive episode as she sought the best way to make up for the cruelties she had apparently inflicted on Cassandra "Cassie" Sorothin that led Cassie to dramatically take her own life. Given Cassie's love for endangered animals, Marie knew that Cassie would have been delighted by the de-extinction of the Aeldrum manticore by the Empire Club. In honor of this accomplishment, Marie established the Cassandra Sorothin Wildlife Protection Fund to contribute to further de-extinction activities. The fund received its initial money by acquiring, and then auctioning off, Cassie's dress and hat collections, with a promise to use the funds to de-extinct the animals whose pelts, skins, and feathers were used to create them.
Despite its substantial funding, the Cassandra Sorothin Wildlife Protection Fund never successfully de-extinctioned a species.
== Shift to Endangered Species Protection ==
Once Gregory Lawe was appointed to the leadership of the Fund, he shifted the organization's strategy from de-extinction to expanding the list of endangered animals and expanding protected habitat. Despite a decade of lobbying, it has yet to get the Cassie Sorothin Endangered Species Act through Aeldrum's parliament.
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