Woman pledges $1.5bn for wildlife, almost half her net worth
Chinese entrepreneur He Qiaonv has pledged $1.5 billion to wildlife preservation, which is almost half of her $3.2-billion net worth as per Forbes. Founder of Beijing Orient Landscape, one of Asia's largest landscape architecture firms, Qiaonv also founded Beijing Qiaonv Foundation in 2012 that looks after environmental issues. BQF also pledged $20 million towards Chinese snow leopard conservation.