LAKE BUENA VISTA (Orlando Sentinel) – A Nobel Peace Prize winner, a Monty Python founder, an actress and two well-known biologists will receive $100,000 conservation awards today at Walt Disney World. In awarding the $500,000 in grants at ceremonies tonight at Disney's Animal Kingdom, the Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund will reach the $10 million mark in total contributions, according to Disney. The latest awards go to 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement in East Africa; comedian John Cleese, founder of Conservation Matters; actress Isabella Rossellini, active with the Andean Cat Alliance and other groups; elephant researcher Ian Douglas-Hamilton, founder of Save the Elephants; and primatologist Jane Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute. "Animals have been a part of Disney history since Walt's first sketch of Bambi," Beth Stevens, vice president of Disney's Animal Kingdom, said in a written statement. "We selected these special individuals because each brings a personal passion to studying and saving endangered species and lands."
How do I keep missing stuff like this? It's like I live in Idaho. That's because nothing happens in Idaho, so I'm making an assertion that I may as well be there since I never take advantage of being here. Basically I'm saying that Idaho sucks.
I've never been to Idaho..because it sucks.
(John Cleese makes this cool).
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