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title: "At the Foresight Vision conference, I asked someone the first project…"
date: 2019-11-05
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# At the Foresight Vision conference, I asked someone the first project…

*November 5, 2019 · Facebook*

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At the Foresight Vision conference, I asked someone the first project they would fund if given carte blanche, and they said they would buy the remote Panamanian island of Isla Escudo de Veraguas.\
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Their rationale? It\'s the only known habitat for Bradypus pygmaeus (also known as the pygmy sloth):\
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You can read more about the island here:\
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla_Escudo_de_Veraguas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla_Escudo_de_Veraguas){target="_blank"}\
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He thinks the best way to preserve the sloth is to turn the island into a private nature reserve. He thinks it could be acquired by a few million dollars.
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