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Indianapolis Zoo awards first Saving Species Challenge grant
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The Indianapolis Zoo is awarding $1 million to save a newly-discovered species of hummingbird in Ecuador.
The Blue-Throated Hillstar was first discovered in 2017. Now, fewer than 110 adult birds remain.
The zoo is giving the money to the Ecuadorian conservation group Fundación Jocotoco. They are the first winners of the Saving Species Challenge.
Fundación Jocotoco was chosen by a jury of international animal conservation experts out of 52 applications from 46 countries.
MORE: https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indianapolis-zoo-grants-1-million-save-critically-endangered-hummingbirds-ecuador/531-d378ca8d-2395-4ecb-b12e-3d14187db6ce