Alveus Wildlife Sanctuary - Texas, USA

Alveus is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit wildlife sanctuary and virtual education centre in Texas, running a permanent multi-camera live feed across its animal enclosures 24 hours a day. The cameras visible in this feed cover Toast the blue-tongued skink, a serval in its temporary enclosure, wolf hybrids Awa and Akela, emus Stompy and Nolie, chinchillas Snork and Moomin, and the main pasture, with enclosure labels identifying each animal in real time.

The sanctuary was founded by Maya Higa, a conservation advocate and livestreamer, specifically to use online audiences as a tool for wildlife education rather than entertainment. All animals at Alveus are educational ambassadors rather than pets, meaning they are non-releasable rescues whose role is to represent their species in conservation outreach to an online audience that regularly numbers in the tens of thousands.

Blue-tongued skinks, like Toast, are native to Australia and Indonesia and use their distinctive blue tongues to startle predators, a defence mechanism that works because blue colouration is rare in the natural food of most Australian predators. The serval, a wild cat native to sub-Saharan Africa, can jump 3 metres vertically to catch birds in flight and has the longest legs relative to body size of any cat species.

Did You Know? Alveus was purpose-built to function as a virtual education centre, making it one of the only wildlife sanctuaries in the world designed from the ground up around live online streaming rather than physical visitors.

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