Hayo Zookeepers!



We hope you had a fantastic festive period and a great start to the new year so far. We'd like to make you all aware of some changes we are making to the Community Challenges, thanks to feedback we've received from our wonderful community.



We've heard your concerns over the difficulty of taking part in a challenge every week. We will now be running challenges once every two weeks, instead of once a week. This means that over a two week period, we will be running a challenge from Tuesday - Sunday as normal during the first week, but there will be no challenge during the second week. This will allow a period of downtime between challenges.



We will also be improving our challenge variety, by putting a modifier on some of the challenges. Animals may now need to have a certain Star level or Gold/Silver/Bronze rating for it to count towards your Community Challenge involvement. For example, we may ask that you release 4 Star Bengal Tigers to the Wild. Not only that, but in some of our future challenges, we won't ask you to work with one specific animal. For example, you may be asked to complete the challenge using Silver-rated Animals or Animals from Africa.



These changes will go live mid-February. The next challenge will take place 28 Janurary, and will be focused on Greater Flamingoes! The week after that, no challenge will take place and then our new changes to variety will begin as well.



We really appreciate hearing all your feedback, as it helps us make changes for the better. The rewards are staying the same; you will still be able to earn animals, conservation credits, and avatar costumes.



Thanks for all of your support so far!