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Rand Merchant Bank is stepping up to raise $233 million through wildlife bonds aimed at saving African wild dogs and lions.

The World Bank has begun to issue a new type of bond that directs finance to a specific project or activity and in turn makes a portion of the return on the bond contingent on the success of that project or activity.

The pay-for-success bond, focussing on a single species, could engage untapped private resources and help fill the global biodiversity financing gap

The World Bank has launched an innovative way to grow the population of endangered black rhinos by launching a Wildlife Conservation Bond.

Investors will see returns if the critically endangered rhino population increases in two designated South African parks

WASHINGTON: Critically endangered black rhinos in South Africa will get help from an unusual source in the guise of Wall Street, where institutional investors have expressed a willingness to buy a new

The $150m bond is billed as a ‘first of its kind’, which uses investments to achieve conservation goals. In this case, one of the aims is to increase the number of endangered black rhinos.

Critically endangered black rhinos in South Africa will get help from an unusual source: Wall Street, where institutional investors have expressed a willingness to buy a new type of bond being issued…

Wall street investors are willing to buy a new type of bond that will pay for the conservation efforts of the endangered black rhino.

Critically endangered black rhinos in South Africa will get help from an unusual source: Wall Street, where institutional investors have expressed a willingness to buy a new type of bond being issued by the World Bank that will pay for successful efforts to save the animals.