- oceans
- Hansjörg Wyss has pledged $1 billion to help protect 30% of the planet by 2030.
- Wyss previously donated $450 million to protect wild species on roughly 40 million acres around the world.
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A Swiss billionaire is donating $1 billion in an attempt to save the planet's wild lands and waters from destruction
Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss has pledged $1 billion to help conserve more of the Earth's land and oceans.
A Swiss philanthropist's foundation will donate $1 billion to conserve the planet's land and oceans in an effort to expand the availability of clean air and drinking water.
"Every one of us — citizens, philanthropists, business and government leaders — should be troubled by the enormous gap between how little of our natural world is currently protected and how much should be protected," Wyss wrote. "It is a gap that we must urgently narrow, before our human footprint consumes the earth’s remaining wild places."
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