Play: Protection: halts the effects of a development or destruction event.

Fact: Protected areas conserve ecologically important habitats and processes, and maintain healthy populations of native species.

Play: Protection: halts the effects of a development or destruction event.

Fact: Effective species at risk, environment assessment, and protected area legislation is critical for conserving biodiversity.

Play: Complex and hard to predict (for this game though, see the rules)

Fact: Climate change is expected to dry up the boreal forest, causing more wildfire, disease, and a shift or loss of plant and animal species.

Play: Destruction: removes species and can not be recolonized.

Fact: Oil kills much what it encounters. Plants struggle to grow back and sub-lethal toxic effects can affect wildlife for decades.

Play; Destruction: removes species, and can not be recolonized

Fact: Roads remove habitat, create barriers for wildlife, increase noise, and contribute to pollution. Direct mortality (roadkill) is a problem too.

Play: Development: removes species, recolonized by anthropogenic species.

Fact: Habitat clearing is required to construct pipelines, but many species return after construction. The risk of oil spills remains.