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Jeff Bezos Drops $25 Million on Ocean Conservation
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Jeff Bezos Drops $25 Million on Ocean Conservation

Surfer·Owen James Burke·about 16 hours ago
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Planet Earth’s second most fearless usherer into the webosphere and decidedly not-so-Young-anymore Turk Jeff Bezos is out to save (part) of (one of) our great oceans once again. Last time we had tabs on our hero, Mr. Jeffrey Bezos traveled great lengths by sea in his $500m sailing superyacht, Koru (247-foot support vessel, Abeonia , in tow), committing a charitable wad of $640,000 big ones to essentially lobbying for expanded marine protected areas (MPAs) and make a show of solidarity for the beleaguered sharks in the Pacific waters off the Americas. Sharks everywhere clasped with fins and claspers in orgiastic elation at the generosity of their savior. Now, Bezos is really forking it over with a $25m pledge to be folded into six grants that will purportedly be doled out to “support marine protected areas in the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Vanuatu,” praises Forbes . But, perhaps it’s Mrs.…

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