Best way to get conservation points ?

[Arnolf Hüttler]

I started a park in franchise mode, the problem comes when i only have 430cpoints and some of the animals cost 700-1000
Any help?

[Jendowoz]

Get some exhibits and have them breed. In Franchise you can only sell them for money but in the other modes I think if you pick them well you can sell them for conservation points. Also get the big attractions such as big cats, they breed quite regularly and you can sell them for quite high conservation points.

[Graydore]

Conservation credits (CC) are easily obtained by breeding fast breeding
animals in franchise mode. Red Pandas are considered good for this. People also trade Gold status Red Pandas for cheap conservation credits too in the Animal Trading tab(Franchise Mode). They breed fast and have two offspring at a time,release them into the wild or choose one of the offspring to start a new mating pair in your zoo. I have also found that Gold status Californian Sea Lions trade for good CC when released into the wild. Lions are also good too. If you choose to trade your own animals beware that putting a higher CC then they are worth won't make people trade with you. You might make CC faster by putting them at a slightly lower CC trade amount in the trade centre.
Exhibits don't allow you to trade them for CC's. So don't invest in them for CC,they are better to make money off.
Other fast breeding animals are the African Wild Dog.
Beware though that the animals don't inbreed. That will lower the worth of the next offspring. You can choose to use contraception on the babies so when they do mature,they won't breed, before you get the chance to release them.
Red Panda's and Wild dogs only need a male and a female to breed in their enclosure.
For the dogs, the oldest in the habitat will become the alpha's (male and female) and they will be the only animals who will breed in the habitat, so don't waste money and CC on buying more until your pair become infertile. Make sure to keep an eye on their ages as they will stop breeding at that age and become effectually a money drain. It is best to "Rehome" them in there personal info panel at that time. Then get another pair to mate and be alphas.
Red Panda's only allow for 1 Male & 1 Female in the habitat. When the babies mature, the habitat will have issues that may attract protesters,so you need to make sure the offspring are moved on. Red Panda's also become infertile at a certain age so watch that.
Other animals that breed fast and mature fast,but are not worth high CC are Ostrich's and Indian Peafowls. But they are always breeding and maturing,so you will have a supply of animals to release to the wild and get CC regularly.
Log into your zoo daily to get 100CC everyday. And say"Hello" to visiting players in your zoo. The green wave icon will give you 20 CC every time you do it. However that is limited to a certain number daily.
Good Luck.I had that problem too on my 1st zoo in franchise mode. But saving up your CC and buying animals when you see a good bargain, a male and female pair obviously,and mostly green in all their bars, is a good start.Also don't place them in your zoo until you have a pair or they will age. Leave them in your trade centre until you can use them. Bengal Tigers set me up and then Lions now have me set for the future of my zoos.
A tip too. You don't always need to trade or release your animals in franchise mode. When you start another zoo in franchise mode, you will be able to access your Habitat(only) animals you have put in your trade centre in all your franchise zoos. That way you can start new breeding programs for CC in your next zoos. I now have animals from all six of my franchise zoos in my trade centre. I have Red Pandas in all my zoos,so now I don't need to buy them anymore or worry about inbreeding and they are all Gold Status. I simply put a male and female from different zoos in a habitat and off they go.
Oh, also make sure your animal ageing is a 1,if you have played around with it. 1 is the lowest option meaning the animals will mature faster.
Happy Gaming.

[Shipwrecked]

Pretty much what Greydore said. Find some cheaper animals that breed quickly and in large numbers, and make sure they don't inbreed, and you'll start to make a good sum of credits. I started as an Ostrich and Warthog breeder and now I'm able to buy pretty much anything. A good racket to get into once you've got the points is big cats. Everybody wants one of them. Oh, and don't overprice them. I see a lot of animals on the market for 1,000s of credits but in all likely hood those will never sell. Best to set a reasonable price, or stick with the price game automatically gives your animals when auctioning them off.

[moorwiesen]

Also place some of those conversation information boards for your guests. Each time they read them you do get some credit points and their education goes up as well, they get happier and you get donation and sells up too.

I did start with Gharials for credit points as they breed incredibly fast and flamingos. African Penguin work well as well. Flamingos and Penguins are happy with hundreds in small habitats, so you can let them breed happily and sell of whatever wants to inbreed and only bother to through in some new males once in a while.

[Jaggid Edje]

Breed habitat animals, sell and release them, with animal aging set to full speed and the game running at accelerated speed as much as you can do it.

African Penguins, if you have that DLC, are INSANE for this, because of how fast they breed and mature, how many babies they put out, how many you can keep in a single habitat, and just how much they release for (the gold ones also sell pretty quickly on the market for about 3x what they release for).

I made over 100,000 CC in just a few days during the recent challenge raising African Penguins.

[grampers62]

To put it as simple as possible, don't get discouraged.
In the beginning collecting CC is a bit of a grind but it does get easier. Spending wisely and careful breeding will bring in CC. Fairly soon you will have collected enough CC to start getting higher attraction animals to breed that will make the grind easier and quicker. And at some point there will be a tipping point where you will no longer even think about how many CC you have and just purchase whatever you want without worry.
All that being said I suggest looking at a species and consider how much it will cost versus how many offspring per birth and how often.Once you have enough CC to breed things like the big cats you will be able to see big gains as even just releasing them will gain good CC.

[AdahnGorion]

Make a simplistic zoo, with a few easy starter habitats (small cheap animals and then 2 exhibits)

Then once you have abit of cash, make Lion habitats (one at a time and up to 3 or 4)
Then breed lions and release them.

[Pac]

Just keep breeding and selling popular animals. You'll rack up credits in no time

[Shadow The Innkeep]

Originally posted by MaxSteel OP:

I started a park in franchise mode, the problem comes when i only have 430cpoints and some of the animals cost 700-1000
Any help?

Get peafowls and either release them in bulk or sell for 20-25 cc. Slowly but surely you’ll make both CC and the regular bucks. They breed fast too, attract ppl fairly well bc visitors can go inside the habitat and don’t stress out. They do get sick a lot, but that’s manageable. Once you have more CC, you’ll be able to get better animals and increase the CC income.

[Vakr]

You get 20 cc for saying hello to visiting guests, there is however, a daily limit.
:)

[Rusalka]

While possibly not the fastest method, I like to get a high quality male herd animal and breed it to many females with which it has good genetic potential. This works especially well if he is a colour variant people are fond of. If you purchase a good albino African buffalo, for example, and breed it to 9 cheap (even Frontier-purchased) females with mediocre stats but good offspring potential, you can make quite a bit of money.

It's smart to pay attention to their genetic stats. Heterozyosity leads to good Fertility and Immunity, while Size and Longevity increase via selective breeding. This means you can ensure offspring will have good Size and Longevity if both parents do (aim for both parents having 62+ size and Longevity stats), but you will need to Compare Mates to determine the chances of the offspring having good Fertility and Immunity stats. Parents with poor Immunity and Fertility stats can produce offspring with good ones, provided the offspring have a high likelihood of heterozygosity.

Jaggid Edje's penguin strat is a very good one. African wild dogs breed quickly, but I often have trouble selling them quickly even at 250-500 cc. I find that Timber wolves sell for more. I easily sell high quality gold timber wolves for 900-1200 cc, with excellent ones (all stats 92+) at up to 2000-4000 cc. Any a stat below 62 I post for 500 cc or lower.

Many people breed big cats, so there is a good selection of them on the market. If you are careful, you can easily choose parents that will give a possibility of 4 x 100 stats. Animals with 4 x 100 stats can sell for 5000-10,000 cc.