Leonardo DiCaprio and Lauren Sánchez Bezos Launch an Ambitious Passion Project

The unlikely duo teams up for a $200 million initiative focusing on saving species on the brink of extinction.

From Madagascar’s golden‑crowned sifaka to the Malayan pangolin, it's the largest single fund dedicated solely to species on the brink.

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.

Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have announced a $200 million fund set to protect species on the brink of extinction. Carter Evans has the story.

The Phoenix Species Project will fund recovery efforts for species spanning 30 countries, with $100 million each from the Bezos Earth Fund and Re:wild

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Re:wild and the Bezos Earth Fund have launched the Phoenix Species Project, an initiative dedicated to recovering endangered species. The project will provide support to recover 100 species facing imminent extinction, spanning mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish, invertebrates and plants from

The billionaire-backed fund is dedicating $200 million to preserve animals and even a plant that are facing extinction around the world

One of the animals they aim to save is Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, named in honor of the 100-year-old naturalist and narrator-of-nature David Attenborough

Foundations funded and co-founded 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. DiCaprio’s Re:wild and the Bezos Earth Fund are leading the Phoenix Species

The Phoenix Species Project launches with a $200 million commitment, making it one of if not the largest single philanthropic initiative dedicated "exclusively to the recovery of critically endangered species."

Foundations funded by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos have launched a $200 million initiative to revive 100 of Earth's 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.

Foundations funded by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos have launched a $200 million initiative to revive 100 of Earth's most threatened species

Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos lead $200M project to save 100 of globe's most threatened species  AP News

$200 million has been committed to the Phoenix Species Project