{"id":4977,"date":"2026-08-05T16:43:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4977"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:43:19","slug":"leo-dicaprio-teams-with-jeff-and-lauren-sanchez-bezos-on-200-million-plan-to-save-100-endangered-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4977","title":{"rendered":"Leo DiCaprio teams with Jeff and Lauren Sanchez Bezos on $200 million plan to save 100 endangered species"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>DiCaprio\u2019s Re:wild and the Bezos Earth Fund are leading the Phoenix Species Project, the groups announced Tuesday. They call it the largest single fund in history dedicated exclusively to recovering critically endangered species.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4975\">Forget work-life balance: Gen Z say their top priority is actually career growth, with 93% aspiring for the C-suite<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DiCaprio has for years been developing the idea of a major concerted effort to help species whose habitats and future existence are threatened by\u00a0climate change.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 2021, he and Re:wild co-founder Wes Sechrest, a biologist who serves as the organization\u2019s CEO, met with the Amazon-founding mega billionaire Bezos and his wife, former TV news reporter and host Lauren S\u00e1nchez Bezos. He serves as chair and she as vice chair of the Bezos Earth Fund.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting led to a series of conversations with local governments, environmental groups and Indigenous people on how best to reverse the decline of their most vulnerable species. Those conversations eventually led to the Phoenix Species Project.<\/p>\n<p>Animals the initiative is seeking to sustain include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The golden-crowned sifaka, a lemur from Madagascar<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2013 The Hickory Nut Gorge green salamander, a lungless tree-dweller that lives only in a small canyon in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The Visayan warty pig, endemic to islands in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2013 Mexico\u2019s Cozumel harvest mouse, which lives only on an island off the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4973\">What OpenAI\u2019s finance team is becoming in the age of AI<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2013 The pink land iguana, found only on Wolf Volcano in the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2013 The Malayan pangolin, also known as the Sunda pangolin, native to Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Tanzania\u2019s pancake tortoise, named for its flat, flexible shell.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The starry night harlequin toad, known and named for its black-and-white evening sky appearance, found only in the mountains of Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Attenborough\u2019s long-beaked echidna, a monotreme, or mammal that lays eggs, from New Guinea named in honor of the 100-year-old naturalist and narrator-of-nature\u00a0David Attenborough.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The project\u2019s goals include giving long-term sustenance to successful but fleeting smaller efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve protected the golden-crowned sifaka for years on a budget that would never match what this species deserves, but letting it go extinct was never an option,\u201d Tiana Andriamanana, executive director of Association Fanamby, one of the groups getting a grant from the initiative, said in a statement. \u201cThis funding, this global platform and technical support change what is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4971\">SpaceX races toward Musk\u2019s $1 trillion dream\u2014just as insiders can start selling<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Madagascar\u2019s golden\u2011crowned sifaka to the Malayan pangolin, it&#8217;s the largest single fund dedicated solely to species on the brink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-billionaires"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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