Protecting Our Planet

Subject: Environment

It is an initiative by 9 philanthropic organizations who have collectively pledged $5 billion over ten years in support of the creation, expansion, management, and monitoring of protected and conserved areas of land, inland water, and sea.
It will fund High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People (HAC) 30x30 goal to protect 30 percent of land and sea by 2030.
The founding organizations of Protecting Our Planet — Arcadia – a charitable fund of LisbetRausing and Peter Baldwin; Bezos Earth Fund; Bloomberg Philanthropies; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Nia Tero; Rainforest Trust; Re:wild; Wyss Foundation; and the Rob and Melani Walton Foundation – are to be commended in their united effort to strengthen and expand protected areas across the globe while advancing the rights and guardianship of Indigenous Peoples and local communities.