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.
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 aims to give 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, the Hickory Nut Gorge green salamander, a lungless tree-dweller that lives only in a small canyon in North Carolina, and the Visayan warty pig, endemic to islands in the Philippines.
The project’s goals include providing funding, a global platform, and technical support to change what is possible for these species. Tiana Andriamanana, executive director of Association Fanamby, one of the groups getting a grant from the initiative, said, “This funding, this global platform and technical support change what is possible.”
Original reporting: WLKY Louisville — read the source article.
