Microsoft billionaire donates to gorilla research
Aug 5, 2013, 4:45 PM
SEATTLE (AP) – Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is giving $1 million to the Jane Goodall Institute to study and protect gorillas in Africa.
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation says wildlife conservation projects in Africa will be a major initiative.
Science officer Kathy Richmond told The Seattle Times (
http://bit.ly/18YK0Ci) in a story on Monday that ocean science will be another priority area in the future.
The Goodall grant will help researchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo survey a gorilla subspecies that may be on the verge of extinction.
Since 1990, the Allen foundation has given away $454 million, mostly in the Pacific Northwest.
Allen, a 60-year-old Mercer Island resident, is ranked as the 53rd wealthiest person in the world by Forbes with a net worth of $15 billion. He has pledged to give away most of his fortune.
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