** Bezos pledges $1 billion to global 30x30 effort
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Tuesday, September 21, 2021
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos became a major force in global conservation efforts on Monday when he pledged $1 billion ([link removed]) toward protecting 30 percent of the world's land and water by 2030. The pledge shows that land and water protection efforts will be a major focus of Bezos's $10 billion Earth Fund, which he formed last year.

Bezos's announcement said that his 30x30 efforts would focus on “areas that are important for biodiversity and carbon stocks and will give emphasis to the central role of local communities and Indigenous peoples in conservation efforts.”

The announcement described the $1 billion as the first of a "three-part nature strategy,” with future commitments ([link removed]) focusing on landscape restoration and food system transformation.

In the United States, President Biden made the 30x30 goal central to his America The Beautiful initiative ([link removed]) , but nearly five months later, his administration has yet to start developing the national conservation atlas ([link removed]) that will be necessary for tracking those conservation efforts.
Quick hits


** Bezos pledges $1 billion toward 30x30 effort
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Washington Post ([link removed]) | New York Times ([link removed]) | CNBC ([link removed]) | C|Net ([link removed])


** Three questions around BLM headquarters move back to DC
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E&E News ([link removed])


** Second fire burns near California's giant sequoias
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Fresno Bee ([link removed]) | The Guardian ([link removed]) | Los Angeles Times ([link removed])


** Opinion: Build Back Better Act must include funds to restore forests
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The Hill ([link removed])


** Yellowstone geyser—the world's tallest—is slowing down
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KRTV ([link removed])


** What to expect from Interior and EPA this fall
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E&E News ([link removed])


** Native American coalition aims to boost voting power in New Mexico
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Associated Press ([link removed])


** History: Chinese miners faced racism, violence in Mountain West sundown towns
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Wyoming Public Media ([link removed])
Quote of the day
I’d heard that seeing the Earth from space changes one’s point of view of the world, but I was not prepared for just how much that was true.”
—Jeff Bezos, The New York Times ([link removed])
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** @Interior ([link removed])
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Haystack season is back.

During the late summer pika will begin to gather mouthfuls of vegetation to build “haystacks” for their winter food.

Haystacks are often built in the same place year after year and have been known to become three feet in diameter!

Pic by Dan Walters

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