Leonardo DiCaprio�s Work With Elephants And Wildlife

The story: http://www.care2.com/causes/leonardo-dicaprio-visits-elephants-on-trip-to-protect-one-of-the-worlds-most-irreplaceable-places.html

Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem is known as the last place on earth where orangutans, rhinos, elephants and tigers coexist in the wild and has been called one of the world’s most irreplaceable places. Despite it’s environmental and economic value as an intact rainforest, conservationists are still battling to stop it from being destroyed.

Over the weekend, Leonardo DiCaprio, along with fellow actors Adrien Brody and Fisher Stevens, ventured there to raise awareness about the importance of protecting it, highlighting the cost of destruction and development of palm oil plantations on elephants, whose habitat is being lost and fragmented.

He also announced that the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation would be supporting efforts to build a mega-fauna sanctuary there. Sadly for the orangutans, rhinos, elephants and tigers who call this place home, they’re all now listed on the the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List as Critically Endangered.

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Source: https://myanimalcare.org/2016/04/01/leonardo-dicaprios-work-..

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