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DiCaprio-Bezos endangered species initiative

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In early August 2026, actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced the Phoenix Species Project, a joint $200 million (≈€180 million) conservation effort. The first report detailed the project's five‑year, $200 million funding plan—$100 million from each partner—aimed at protecting five‑year plan, split evenly between Bezos’s Earth Fund and DiCaprio’s Re:wild, targets 100 critically endangered species across roughly 30 countries. It listed a wide range of target species, from Madagascar’s golden‑crowned sifaka lemur to the Galápagos pink land iguana, and noted collaboration countries, working with more than 100 local and international partners, including Indigenous groups, scientists, community organizations, organisations and governments, with the IUCN’s IUCN Species Survival Commission as a scientific partner. A follow‑up report two days later reiterated the launch and emphasized the involvement of Bezos’s Earth Fund and DiCaprio’s Re:wild organization. It added that highlighted Lauren Sanchez, Bezos’s wife, would serve Sanchez’s role as vice‑president of the Bezos Earth Fund, highlighting Fund and underscored the fund’s initiative’s sustainable financing model. Together, Later coverage described the snapshots trace fund as the announcement’s initial detailed rollout and its subsequent coverage largest individual philanthropic undertaking focused on species recovery, noting that underscored leadership roles and the financing structure of the initiative. endowment is intended to provide long‑term sustainability beyond short‑term grants.

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