Washington Post

September 22, 2021
The Wyss Foundation and eight other philanthropic organizations pledged Wednesday to give $5 billion by 2030 to protect biodiversity around the planet, the largest-ever private gift for conservation.

Wyss said it would donate $500 million, which comes on top of a $1 billion commitment it made three years ago. Wyss has already invested nearly $676 million of that amount to help local communities, Indigenous peoples and governments safeguard their lands, water and wildlife.

The philanthropic group’s goal is to maintain 30 percent of the planet in its natural state. In May, a United Nations report concluded that a million plant and animal species are on the verge of extinction, a rate of decline that is unparalleled in human history.

“The actions we take from today through 2030 will determine the fate of our natural world,” Hansjörg Wyss, founder and chairman of the Wyss Foundation, said in a statement. “For our grandchildren and their grandchildren to have the same opportunities we’ve had, for them to inherit a functioning planet, we have to rapidly slow the rate at which our economies are destroying nature.”

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LesEchos

May 5, 2021
À l'époque, il fallait neuf heures pour aller de Denver à Aspen en voiture et vous traversiez des espaces infinis et merveilleux ! », confiait Hansjörg Wyss au magazine National Geographic en se remémorant sa découverte des montagnes Rocheuses, dans les années 1950. Le jeune Suisse avait décroché un job d'été au sein du Colorado Highway Department et tomba dès lors et pour toujours amoureux de la beauté sauvage de l'Ouest américain. Il vit aujourd'hui dans le Wyoming, le moins peuplé des Etats américains, qui comptent parmi ses trésors les parcs nationaux de Yellowstone et de Grand Teton.

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The Nature Conservancy

March 1, 2020
In 2019, The Nature Conservancy successfully closed on innovative new projects and deals that cumulatively protect nearly 6.6 million acres of land—an area larger than the states of Rhode Island, Delaware and Connecticut combined. Each of these successes relied on distinct strategies, partnerships or financing models to succeed, but they were all connected by one common thread: major support from the billion-dollar Wyss Campaign for Nature, which is helping to spearhead an ambitious drive to protect 30% of the Earth by 2030.

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National Geographic

January 31, 2019
The National Geographic Society has joined forces with the Wyss Foundation to develop a new Campaign for Nature that calls for the protection of 30 percent of the planet by 2030.

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National Geographic

October 31, 2018
Today, the Wyss Foundation, a charity focused on protecting wild places, announced they are donating $1 billion to launch the Wyss Campaign for Nature. Hansjörg Wyss says the money will go toward a U.N. goal to protect 30 percent of the Earth by 2030.

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