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Isabel Guerra

According to a press release from Environment News Service (ENS), the Walt Disney Company has agreed on a US $7 million investment to protect forests in the United States, in the Peruvian Amazon, and in the Congo Basin.

Reportedly, these projects will “support safeguard ecosystems that benefit climate and quality of life on the planet" by avoiding deforestation, reforesting logged and burned-over areas and improving forest management

The habitat of Andean spectacled bear and yellow-tailed woolly monkey in Peru will be conserved.

The investment is being made in partnership with three nongovernmental organizations: Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy and The Conservation Fund.

The protection of these forests will also reduce carbon emissions and secure vital watersheds and habitat for a wide variety of plants and animals, many of them threatened or endangered, the company said in a statement today.

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