Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos lead $200M project to save 100 of globe’s most threatened species
Re:wild and the Bezos Earth Fund say the fund will support breeding, habitat protection and rewilding for 100 threatened species.
- On Tuesday, foundations led by Leonardo DiCaprio, actor and conservation advocate, and Jeff Bezos, Amazon-founding billionaire, announced the Phoenix Species Project, committing $200 million to revive 100 of Earth's most threatened species.
- DiCaprio's years developing climate-focused conservation led to a 2021 meeting with Re:wild co-founder and CEO Wes Sechrest and Bezos, which prompted conversations with Indigenous groups and environmental organizations across multiple continents.
- Target species span Madagascar's golden-crowned sifaka lemur, North Carolina's Hickory Nut Gorge green salamander, the Philippines' Visayan warty pig, Colombia's starry night harlequin toad, and Tanzania's pancake tortoise, alongside Southeast Asia's Malayan pangolin and New Guinea's Attenborough's long-beaked echidna, named for 100-year-old naturalist David Attenborough.
- Aussie Ark will receive $1 million to expand wildlife protection at a scale 'never seen before,' with Director and co-CEO Liz Gabriel calling it 'a transformational commitment to threatened species conservation in NSW' and co-CEO Hayley Shute pledging species will be 'actively restored' into ecosystems.
- The initiative sustains conservation efforts previously underfunded, with executive director Tiana Andriamanana of Association Fanamby noting species like the golden-crowned sifaka were protected on budgets 'would never match what this species deserves,' while Bezos and his wife Lauren Sánchez Bezos lead the Bezos Earth Fund toward long-term ecosystem restoration.
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos lead US$200M project to save 100 of globe’s most threatened species
Foundations funded and co-founded by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos have launched an initiative committing US$200 million to revive 100 of Earth’s most threatened species, including endangered lemurs, salamanders, pangolins, pigs and echidnas.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos Are Teaming to Save Endangered Species With $200M Initiative
The Phoenix Species Project launches with a $200 million commitment, making it one of if not the largest single philanthropic initiative dedicated "exclusively to the recovery of critically endangered species."
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n1info.rsThe foundations of Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos launched today a $200 million initiative to save 100 of the most endangered animal species on Earth.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos Lead $200m Phoenix Species Project to Save 100 Threatened Species
LOS ANGELES: Foundations funded and co-founded by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos have launched an initiative committing $200 million to revive 100 of Earth's most threatened species, including endangered lemurs, salamanders, pangolins, pigs and echidnas.DiCaprio's Re:wild and the Bezos Earth Fund are leading the Phoenix Species Project, the groups announced Tuesday. They call it the largest single fund in history dedicated exclusively to recov…
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