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Jeff Bezos & his wife donated $100M to protect endangered animals, plants -- 73

By · Via Times of India · Published by Everything Blog

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The Bezos Earth Fund has joined eight other founding partners in the Species Recovery Alliance, coordinating independent grantmaking to protect at-risk wildlife. Supported projects will assist local conservation groups with practical measures including captive breeding, habitat restoration, invasive species eradication, and disease control. The initiative expands on the Earth Fund's prior $200 million Phoenix Species Project, a collaboration with Re:wild aiming to recover 100 species across 30 nations. Global biodiversity initiatives continue to face shortfalls against an international annual funding target of $200 billion.

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  • The Bezos Earth Fund serves as one of nine founding organizations establishing the $500 m…: The Bezos Earth Fund serves as one of nine founding organizations establishing the $500 million Species Recovery Alliance.
  • This conservation effort builds directly upon the $200 million Phoenix Species Project la…: This conservation effort builds directly upon the $200 million Phoenix Species Project launched in August alongside the group Re:wild.
  • Long-term private funding aims to counter persistent shortfalls in the international comm…: Long-term private funding aims to counter persistent shortfalls in the international community's $200 billion annual biodiversity target.

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sanchez Bezos have committed $100 million via the Bezos Earth Fund to help protect some of the world’s most endangered animals and plants, backing a new global initiative designed to prevent species from slipping into extinction. As reported by Fortune, the donation is part of a broader $500 million Species Recovery Alliance, which is a coalition of conservation organisations that was introduced at the COP17 UN biodiversity conference in Yerevan, Armenia. The managing director of the fund, Cristián Samper made the announcement about the donation by Bezos and Sanchez. The report further adds that the Earth Fund is contributing $100 million dollars in all.

Jeff Bezos’ Earth Fund joins new global conservation alliance

According to a report by Fortune, the Bezos Earth Fund is one of nine founding members of the newly launched Species Recovery Alliance, which aims to accelerate efforts to recover species classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as endangered, critically endangered or extinct in the wild.

The Earth Fund made the commitment of $100 million…

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