Disney Conservation Fund Awards New Grants to 25 Groups in 16 Countries

Overview

• The fund, which announced the package Tuesday, will support conservation work across 16 countries and lifts its lifetime giving to more than $141 million since 1995.
• This round aims to protect, restore, and rewild over 120,000 square miles of corridor habitat, a scale Disney compares to nearly twice the size of Florida.
• Save the Elephants will help a Kenyan community create a 12.5 square-mile conservancy by Tsavo East National Park to keep elephant migration open through a key railway underpass while adding local jobs and conflict-reduction plans.
• Bat Conservation International will rebuild a 675-mile “nectar corridor” across Mexico and the U.S. Southwest over two years by restoring eight stopover sites and planting about 140,000 native agaves that feed migrating nectar bats.
• Other spotlight projects include safeguarding roughly 60 nautical miles of great hammerhead shark corridors in the Upper Florida Keys, restoring 15 miles of monarch habitat in California with about 6,000 native plants, and adding about 6 square miles of protected forest for Colombia’s cotton-top tamarins toward a 20-mile corridor.