Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeff Bezos lead $200M project to save world's 100 most threatened species
Foundations funded and co-founded by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos have launched an initiative committing US$200 million to revive 100 of Earth's most threatened species, including endangered lemurs, salamanders, pangolins, pigs and echidnas.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos have launched a $200 million project to save the world's 100 most threatened species, the Phoenix Species Project. The collaboration between DiCaprio's Re:wild and the Bezos Earth Fund marks the largest single fund in history dedicated exclusively to recovering critically endangered species. The initiative was born from a meeting in 2021 between DiCaprio, Re:wild co-founder Wes Sechrest, Amazon billionaire Bezos, and his wife Lauren Sánchez Bezos.
The project aims to provide long-term support to various endangered species, including the golden-crowned sifaka, Hickory Nut Gorge green salamander, Visayan warty pig, Cozumel harvest mouse, pink land iguana, Malayan pangolin, Tanzania's pancake tortoise, and Attenborough's long-beaked echidna. Tiana Andriamanana, executive director of Association Fanamby, expressed gratitude for the initiative, stating that it changes what is possible in protecting vulnerable species.
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