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TIL: Howard Buffet, son of Billionaire Warren Buffet's, has donated untold millions in wildlife conservation, with his largest donation being $24m in 2014 to Kruger National Park in South Africa to purchase military grade helicopters and reconnaissance drones to track illegal poaching

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