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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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