Billionaire Hansjörg Wyss Creates Fund for Environmental Protection

The billionaire Hansjörg Wyss establishes a fund of almost $1 billion to protect 30% of the planet by 2030.

Billionaire creates Fund to protect 30% of the Planet by 2030

 

Many people know that much of our natural resources, including forests and oceans and all life in them, are at serious risk. The challenges of global climate changes and the extinction of many species pose as threats to our survival as Humans and the Planet. But few are in the same position to help as the Hansjörg Wyss, billionaire and wildlife lover.  He has just announced that he would donate one billion dollars to environmental causes.

Hansjörg Wyss had a career working as an engineer and executive. But it was after he founded Synthes, a medical device manufacturer, that he made his fortune.

Much of the foundation money goes to fuel social, scientific and environmental causes, as well as incentives to museums and artistic endeavors.

In late October, Mr. Wyss published an article in the NY Times explaining his plans for the next decade. Mr. Wyss believes that conservation institutions like national parks and wildlife reserves should be a priority of our time. He decided to direct future donations to focus on funding such initiatives.

 

Meeting the challenges of our time

Nine institutions are in a list to receive $ 48 million each. Mr. Wyss ‘s goal is that by 2030, 30% of the planet’s surface would be taken care of.

Hansjörg Wyss also envisions including Indigenous communities, coral reefs, glaciers, and savannas among his leading concerns as a philanthropist. He also intends to persuade other billionaires to join him on the journey of environmental protection.

The Wyss Foundation is a private, charitable foundation dedicated to supporting innovative, lasting solutions that improve lives, empower communities, and strengthen connections to the land.

 

The Fund for Environmental Protection has bold programming

Hansjörg Wyss’ passion for innovation and discovery runs throughout his philanthropy blueprint.

At the Wyss Foundation, they invest in conservation projects that create new partnerships and new approaches to Environmental Protection.

In their work to expand economic opportunity and empower communities, his Foundation helps incubate new ways of thinking, and new ideas that can help move beyond old paradigms and divisions we are facing today.

Above all, they try to help find solutions that work and stand the test of time.

Climbing and hiking the Rocky Mountains as a young man, Hansjörg Wyss developed a lifelong love for America’s open lands and a passion for discovery and innovation.

After a successful career in life-saving medical science, Mr. Wyss created the Wyss Foundation in 1998 to help ensure the iconic Western landscapes preservation for everyone to experience and explore.

Today, the Wyss Foundation supports projects in areas from conservation and education to economic opportunity and social justice. Each philanthropic investment seeks to encourage new ideas and new solutions that expand the reach of human possibility and compassion.

 

About Mr. Hansjorg Wyss

A native of Switzerland who now lives in Wilson, Wyoming, Mr. Wyss’ first experiences in the West drew him back to the United States to attend the Harvard Business School, which he graduated in 1965.

Working for the Colorado Highway Department as a student in 1958, Hansjörg Wyss developed a lifelong love for America’s national parks and public lands. In particular, he grew to admire an American idea: that nation’s iconic landscapes should receive protection and preservation to pass to our future generations.

With his American education and passion for discovery, has started a successful medical research and design company.

His company had its headquarter in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and its products have helped millions of patients recover from skeletal and soft tissue trauma and injuries.

https://www.wyssfoundation.org