The Boss Epic Games Gave $ 15 Million To Nature Conservation

Studio founder Epic Games Tim Suini (Tim Sweeney) laid out 15 million US dollars for seven thousand acres of forest in the native state. The developer acquired a land plot called Box Creek Wilderness in the west of North Carolina near the blue ridge mountain range.

According to the contract, the owner is forbidden to cultivate this locality, break it into parts and in general interfere in natural order. The land is also closed to the public, but everyone can contact Suini by email and get permission to visit this unique private reserve.

By the way, according to experts, Box Creek Wilderness is a really valuable forest, because it is there Ecologists have discovered more than 130 rare and prone to the disappearance of species of plants and animals.

This is not the first time when the creator Unreal made for the protection of wildlife. Suini Burst Earth in North Carolina since 2008, and to this point in his possession there are already forty thousand acres of land throughout the state, which he turned into reserves.

Meanwhile, the other founder Epic Games Mark Rhine (Mark Rein) preferred to spend your millions to another hobby. The developer is a co-owner of the CAROLINA HURRICANES club, speaking in the National Hockey League. Where do you ask, they have such funds? Well, in 2012, the Chinese corporation Tencent paid them 330 million dollars for a part of the studio shares.