Kaiyo Funaki writes in The Cool Down about the private sector’s leadership in conservation.
- Multibillion-dollar conglomerate Cox Enterprises has donated $100 million to the Wetlands America Trust, a nonprofit organization overseen by Ducks Unlimited.
- The Wetlands America Trust oversees 400,000 acres of conservation easements and has conserved nearly a billion acres of North American wetlands.
- Cox Enterprises and the Cox Foundation have together donated almost $100 million to Ducks Unlimited and the Wetlands America Trust over the years.
“Ducks Unlimited started nearly 90 years ago to conserve, restore, and manage wetlands and other habitats for waterfowl. DU has been involved in a 27,000-acre donation that serves as a home to several endangered species in Florida and a project that partially restored a wetland in Minnesota.”
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