DiCaprio, Bezos Launch $200 Million Project to Revive 100 Threatened Species
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Updated · The Associated Press · Aug 4
DiCaprio, Bezos Launch $200 Million Project to Revive 100 Threatened Species
3 articles · Updated · The Associated Press · Aug 4
Summary
$200 million will fund the new Phoenix Species Project, which aims to recover 100 of the world’s most threatened species, the groups said Tuesday.
Re:wild and the Bezos Earth Fund say the initiative is the largest single fund dedicated exclusively to critically endangered species recovery and is meant to sustain conservation efforts that have lacked long-term backing.
The project grew out of talks that began in 2021 among Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, scientists, local governments, environmental groups and Indigenous communities as climate change and habitat loss deepen extinction risks.