Leonardo DiCaprio came forward in support of Amazon rainforest by helping raise $5 Million to help extinguish fires blazing. DiCaprio’s foundation, Earth Alliance, has donated the money to five local organizations that are directly helping control the blaze. The Alliance was started by the actor in collaboration with business investors and philanthropists Laurene Powell Jobs and Brian Sheth.
DiCaprio wrote on Instagram last week,
“The Brazilian Amazon—home to 1 million Indigenous people and 3 million species—has been burning for more than two weeks straight. There have been 74,000 fires in the Brazilian Amazon—a staggering 84 percent increase over the same period last year.”
He added, “The Amazon needs more than our prayers.”
Much respect for him!