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PHILANTHROPY NEWS DIGEST
Vol. 6,
Issue 7
February 15, 2000
Conservation International Donates $35 Million for Research Center
The D.C.-based Conservation International has announced that it will donate $35 million to build a research center in northern Guatemala, the Associated Press reports. The center will be built in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve, the largest tropical and wetland region in Central America, which is being threatened by poaching and slash and burn agriculture.
The project is funded in part by a $35 million donation from Intel Corporation co-founder Gordon Moore and his wife Betty. The gift, made in the fall of 1998, was the largest private gift ever given to support international biodiversity.
"Conservation Group to Donate $35 Million to Study Guatemalan Rain Forest." San Francisco Chronicle 2/13/2000.
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