Foundations funded 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.
The Phoenix Species Project
DiCaprio’s Re:wild and the Bezos Earth Fund are leading the Phoenix Species Project, the largest single fund in history dedicated exclusively to recovering critically endangered species. The project’s goals include giving long-term sustenance to successful but fleeting smaller efforts.
Animals the initiative is seeking to sustain include the golden-crowned sifaka, a lemur from Madagascar, and the Hickory Nut Gorge green salamander, a lungless tree-dweller that lives only in a small canyon in North Carolina.
Original reporting: NBC10 Boston — read the source article.
