Neon Jungle Wildlife Rescue is a non-profit wildlife rehabilitation group.
General Description[]
The Neon Jungle Wildlife Rescue is a wildlife rehabilitation effort that was originally founded under The Neon Circus umbrella, headed by Sloane Monroe and Bringle Dingus. The Neon Jungle currently cares for various bird species, reptiles, and aquatic animals with the aim of releasing animals back into the wild whenever possible. As champions of environmental and wildlife conservation, they specifically focus on the concept of reciprocity, or giving back to nature.
Origins & Founding[]
When the first iteration of the Neon Jungle was first founded by Bringle Dingus on March 18, 2025, the 3 Neon Circus ringmasters hoped the Jungle would eventually obtain more exotic species, allowing the Neon Jungle fill the traditional circus role of "tamers" - but with a special focus on animal care and quality of life, including raising awareness via ambassadorship programs with animals that for whatever reason were unable to be released.
Just a couple short days after the organization's official founding, Bringle was introduced to Sloane Monroe by a mutual friend. The two could not be more opposite - Sloane was calm, methodical, logical, anti-social, and not easily impressed; Bringle was high-energy, eager to please, friendly, kind, and empathetic. But they found common ground over their shared love for animals and Sloane was quickly brought in as the Jungle's first official employee, quickly proving herself and becoming co-management and equal partners alongside Bringle. Other members of the Circus helped with animal care from time to time as well.
Initially the organization operated out of the Neon Circus' Fudge House basement, but the Jungle was quickly outgrowing this space. On April 11, 2025, Delver Lee of the Blaine County Mayor's Office granted Neon Jungle the use of a residential property in Grapeseed which Sloane converted into a new facility - giving the Jungle a larger and more public-facing space to operate out of, allowing them to move out of their original basement home and expand their rescue efforts. (This property was later passed by Delver to Lexi Law after legal disputes over its providence, and she retains current ownership on the Jungle's behalf.)
Splitting from The Neon Circus & Moving Forward[]
The second iteration of the Neon Jungle was born on August 4th, 2025, when Bringle made the decision to formally separate the Neon Jungle from the Neon Circus. There were growing concerns about the Circus becoming more deeply involved in crime and straying from its initial vision, as well as growing tensions amongst the ranks. As part of this decision, Bringle also stepped down into a management position, and - knowing Sloane's exceptional work ethic and capabilities - formally made Sloane the CEO as a way of empowering her to stand her ground in any future disputes. Bringle and Sloane both left the Circus as individuals at this time as well. With these ties cut and no further obligations to the Circus, Neon Jungle committed themselves fully to more traditional conservation efforts and began to focus on finally realizing their long-term dreams of legislating wildlife protections, and getting their sponsorship, fundraising, and scouting programs off the ground.
Additional personnel changes also impacted the Jungle in this time. Volunteer Dang McNabb was brought on as a full Conservation Specialist, while Sooty Gamwich and Idol Lunas were volunteers that were let go as part of the split from the Circus/as a result of differing priorities. Idol's firing was particularly dramatic, as it was discovered she had been secretly vandalizing the house next door where Chatterbox had been on house arrest for some time, leaving threatening and disturbing messages and even being accused of poisoning his cat's food (although the latter was never proven). Sloane promptly suspended and subsequently fired her, with formal charges being pressed later by Chatterbox's parole officer, Deputy Helen Highwater.
Just a few days after Idol's firing, Rue Minmi contacted Sloane about wanting to work for the Jungle, demonstrating an almost alarming amount of enthusiasm and dedication. She was interviewed by Bringle and Sloane, successfully won them over, and was immediately brought on as a volunteer. Helen Highwater was also offered a volunteer position after being controversially fired by the Blaine County Sheriff's Office a week or two later.
Reception and Progress[]
The Neon Jungle has been met with widespread praise, interest, and support since its founding - especially from both local governments, who have provided the not-for-profit organization with significant funding and benefits. Neon Jungle has tracked over 40 species of birds and reptiles across the island (both native and invasive), including 2 endangered species and 6 vulnerable species of animals. They also worked to introduce wildlife protection laws via legislation, start sponsorship programs for unreleasable animals, and even created the Jungle Scouts program to get the community involved in conservation work and earn badges along the way.
The DUCK Act was passed as state-wide legislation on August 2nd, 2025 (and later further strengthened and amended), introducing protection laws for endangered/vulnerable species and rehabilitated/released animals, as well as creating sponsorship guidelines to allow interested civilians to apply to foster unreleasable animals. Both Mayor's Offices worked closely alongside the Neon Jungle to craft the elements of this new legislation, which also saw Neon Jungle officially recognized as the first State-Approved Rehabilitation Facility. As part of this, Mayor Michael Razzel hired Neon Jungle employees to the Los Santos government as part of the "Parks and Recreation Department," allowing them to finally earn a wage for their work and have access to government functions crucial to their work such as scraps approval and MDT access. This also caused a change in the Jungle's internal structure, with new employees always being brought on as unpaid volunteers (with the possibility of moving into a paid, government-subsidized position later as long as they showed consistency and dedication, and maintained a clean criminal record).
On September 1st, 2025, the Jungle was granted the use of the entire Second Floor of the Kortz Center via a signed rental agreement with the Los Santos County Mayor's Office, leasing them the space for a mere $1/month. Construction on the massive new facility is still on-going, with an expected grand opening sometime in October. The significant increase in space will allow the Neon Jungle to house a higher number of animals in themed habitat rooms, as well as host various events and educational classes.
Junglemon[]
As a non-profit organization, the Neon Jungle needed a way to further incentivize donations. Animal care, overhead costs, and future goals were getting expensive fast. Sloane wanted a product that they could sell at a high price as a "thank you" for donations, and Bringle came up with the idea of "Junglemon," which were officially launched on September 9th, 2025. Junglemon are virtual critters in a small electronic device that allow the owner to participate in virtual care-themed interactions and build a connection with their critter. Each Junglemon is also USB-C rechargeable as part of the Jungle's commitment to environmental sustainability.
Anyone who donates $10,000+ to the Jungle can pick a Junglemon of their very own, with 6 colors and 5 animals available to choose from. Custom Junglemon can also be commissioned for a donation of $100,000+. In just the first two weeks of Junglemon's launch, the Neon Jungle was able to raise over $700,000 in funding, thanks to Junglemon sales...and still going.
Jungle Scouts[]
Jungle Scouts had been a dream of Sloane's since almost the very beginning of the Neon Jungle. Once the split with the Neon Circus was finalized, she decided she was tired of putting off their dreams and committed the organization to focusing only on the road ahead. With that in mind, she began finally developing the Jungle Scouts program. Bringle and Dang assisted in concepting things like badges and cookies, and Helen (while still working as a deputy for the BCSO) had even brought the opportunity to partner with the Rangers on certain badges, with additional assistance from Ranger William Pepe. After nearly two months and literally hundreds of hours of behind-the-scenes work and development, Jungle Scouts was ready to launch on September 29th, 2025.
Featuring 47 earnable badges and awards throughout 6 levels of scouting (Tadpole, Hummingbird, Puffin, Turtle, Magpie, and Raven), signing up for Jungle Scouts costs only $5,000 - this fee covers the costs of things like custom scouting vests, a 34 page handbook, badges, and future events for each scout. Jungle Scouts not only earn Jungle Scout Badges but also go on Jungle Scout Adventures - things like overnight camp, cookie sales events, CleanUp Days, and more. Once construction on the Kortz Center is complete, Scouts will have access to a Jungle Scouts Lounge, Buddy Board, and Classroom as well.
While wearing the vest, Jungle Scouts are expected to adhere to "Jungle Law" - any outside conflicts between Jungle Scouts must be temporarily set aside. While Scout Vests are on, fellow Scouts are allies, never enemies. Disrupting Adventures to further a conflict or for any kind of personal gain (gang wars, serving of warrants, hostage taking/robbery, etc.) is strictly prohibited and will result in immediate removal from the Adventure or even from Jungle Scouts as a whole, depending on the severity.
Trivia[]
- "The Great Egg Hunt" event organized by Neon Jungle for World Circus Day on April 19th, 2025 sparked robberies and violence, created gang wars and "egg turfs," and caused a level of chaos no one in the city could have ever anticipated. Helicopters, Class 2 weaponry, and myriad underhanded tactics were all used in the hunt for plastic eggs as participants competed for $1,250,000 in prizes - effectively creating a drama-filled city-wide heist event.
- Despite the violence, World Circus Day and The Great Egg Hunt were overwhelmingly positively received by the people of Los Santos and netted the Circus a profit of over $400,000 - $100,000 of which went back to the Neon Jungle.
- On the first day of Jungle Scout sign-ups, the program was met with overwhelming response and praise, gaining 40 registered Scouts in the first 12 hours (oftentimes with a line literally out the door to register), performing 27 intakes on eggs/animals, and handing out roughly 60 Badges. By the end of Week 1, there were 73 Scouts and over 300 badges handed out. By the end of week 2, there was over 100 Scouts and 500 badges earned.
- While there are no mechanics in place to support the existence of additional animals outside of the animals inherently spawned in GTA (mountain lions, etc.), Neon Jungle staff regularly conduct "survey days" where they "look for potential nesting sites" and hide the eggs/juvenile animals people find to later bring to them. Neon Jungle staff therefore creates their entire RP loop themselves, with the help of custom items through scraps.
- Nearly all animal species that Neon Jungle roleplayers chose to include as native or invasive in San Andreas are modeled after real life native and invasive species in California, or were ones that could reasonably exist in the setting (i.e. Burmese Pythons are a famously invasive species in Florida rather than California, but similar ecosystems exist in San Andreas and, like Los Angeles, San Andreas would have a flourishing exotic pet trade).
- There are few animals catalogued by Neon Jungle that do not fit into either the bird or reptile category - the first of which was the Canyon Bat (formerly known as the Western Pipistrelle). It is the smallest species of North American bat, roughly the size of a human thumb. Neon Jungle facilitated a sort of "event" in late September 2025 where an extreme heatwave caused many Canyon Bats to become dehydrated (a common concern for this species due to their small size/high surface area to volume ratio). Over 30 bats were brought in over the next month, with plans for rehabilitated bats to be released near Halloween.
- A second critter was added in October - the Monarch Butterfly. Western Monarch Butterflies begin arriving in San Andreas (or California IRL) in October as a result of their yearly migration. Neon Jungle ordered in 60 caterpillars and are raising them to release as butterflies later in the month, as well as planting additional native milkweed to support the overwintering population. Monarchs are a vulnerable species and are protected by the DUCK Act - they've lost 95% of their population since the 1980s and, according to the most recent Monarch Species Status Assessment, the probability of extinction for western monarchs is greater than 95% by the year 2080 - making conservation efforts like these crucial to their survival.
- Each staff member of Neon Jungle has their own unique, limited-edition colorway of Junglemon that they can give out to people who do something notable for conservation (or do something else to otherwise earn them). All of these Junglemon are two toned, with a unique swirl pattern not present on standard Junglemon. Limited Edition Junglemon include:
- Sloane's Junglemon: Black with pale green swirls.
- Bringle's Junglemon: Pastel pink with pastel blue swirls.
- Dang's Junglemon: Aqua with hot pink swirls.
- Rue's Junglemon: Cherry red with teal swirls.
- Helen's Junglemon: Orange with yellow swirls.
- Roddy's Junglemon: Silver with icy blue swirls.
- Big Catch Junglemon: A turtle Junglemon that is royal blue with golden yellow swirls. Only five of these were given to the BCMO for the winners of their Big Catch Classic event, as a thank you for cancelling their turtle fishing event after protests (and Mayor Junior getting thoroughly chewed out over the phone by Sloane).
- Monarch Junglemon: A unique monarch wing-patterned Junglemon with white buttons, featuring a color monarch butterfly. Only given to attendees of the Flight of the Monarchs event on 10/27/25, where vulnerable monarch butterflies were released into the wild and milkweed was planted. This is currently the only Junglemon with a color screen.
- Spooky Junglemon: A bat Junglemon with a candycorn themed case, only given to attendees of the Return to the Night Canyon Bat Release event on 10/30/25.
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