You have 4 Conservation Achievement markers, each of which you can use to support 1 Conservation objective. You may not support a single objective more than once. The Conservation objectives show you which icons you need to collect to support them.

Each Achievement marker indicates the minimum number of icons of a type that you must have in your zoo to support an objective (e.g., you may also use the 4-icon Achievement marker if you have 5 icons for an objective). They also show you how many points the placed Achievement marker is worth at the end of the game.

In this step, you may support exactly 1 Conservation objective that you have not yet supported. Count the number of icons in your zoo that match the objective you want to support. You may increase that number by returning Conservation markers you have collected during the game to the supply. Each Conservation marker you return increases the number of icons by 1. However, you must have at least 1 matching icon in your zoo to support a Conservation objective. You are therefore not allowed to replace all icons with Conservation markers when supporting a Conservation objective.

Then place an unused Achievement marker with the matching number of icons face down on the Conservation board, below the Conservation objective you’re supporting, on the space of your color.

EXAMPLE: You have 3 bird icons in your zoo (A), but you want to use the best possible Conservation Achievement marker that will earn you the most points. You therefore also discard the 2 Conservation markers you have collected. You then place your 5-icon Conservation Achievement marker on the space of your color underneath the Bird Conservation objective (B). It is worth 14 points at the end of the game. Additional bird icons that you place in your zoo will no longer help you with Conservation objectives.