S.O.S. Gizani

The game "S.O.S. Gizani" was created to have fun by protecting gizani.

Gizani is endangered by the degradation of its habitats during summer, due to water over-abstraction.

The game aims at protecting gizani, as a species, from extinction. This will be achieved if we assist some of the individual fish that live in the water pool to survive during the dry period of the year. These fish will reproduce in the following spring and produce offspring that will spread out again in the stream.

Save as many gizani fish as you can! Protect them, making sure there is always enough water in the pool that they live!

ATTENTION!

Pay attention to the stones, the pieces of wood, the litter, the barrel with liquid wastes, the crabs and the fire in the forest.

Do not deprive the farmers from the water quantity that they need to irrigate their fields, but at the same time do not let them pump more water than that they really need for irrigation (pay attention to both the pumps and the water reservoirs).

• The stones, the pieces of wood and the litter drifted in the stream, block the flow of water to the gizani pool and must be removed quickly.
• In the game, the crab eats the fish and must also be removed. In fact, the crabs that live in the streams of Rhodes are not a serious threat to gizani, since they pray only on the oldest and most weakened individuals.
• The water pumps of the farmers, as they fill the irrigation reservoirs, reduce the stream water that flows into the gizani pool. Make sure that the farmers do not pump more water than that necessary, but at the same time leave in the reservoir the minimum amount of water (marked by the red line) that the farmers need to irrigate their fields without problem.
• The barrel is filled with liquid wastes that pollute the stream and threaten gizani with extinction. You have to remove it quickly, before its detrimental content falls into the stream.
• The flames you see in the forest must be put out immediately, before they start a fire. In the game, when the forest is on fire (more than 4 flames), the fire brigade arrives and pumps large amounts of water from the stream to put it out. In fact, when the forest is destroyed by fire, soil erosion increases and the natural capacity of the soil to withhold the rainwater decreases. Thus, rainwater does not enrich neither the streams (surface waters), nor the underground waters.