Millionaire donation of DiCaprio to preserve the Amazon

The actor Leonardo DiCaprio is very attached to the environment. He demonstrated this weekend by donating five million dollars to help preserve the Amazon rainforest deep in crisis due to forest fires.

The 44-year-old performer promised to donate via Earth Alliance, the foundation he created with philanthropists Laurene Powell Jobs and Brian Sheth. The financial aid is for indigenous communities working to protect the jungle.

"The Amazon rainforest is on fire with more than 9,000 forest fires this week that are devastating Brazil's delicate and irreplaceable landscapes," the Earth Alliance Foundation said on its official website, to publicize the scale of the disaster.

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"So far, in 2019, the National Institute of Space Research of Brazil has reported more than 72,000 fires (INPE). This is a significant increase over the 40 000 fires recorded in Brazil on the same dates last year, "he added.

"The destruction of the Amazon rainforest is rapidly releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, destroying an ecosystem that absorbs millions of tons of carbon every year, which is one of the best defenses of the planet against the crisis. climate change, "said the NGO. .

"In addition, indigenous peoples' lands cover approximately 110 million hectares in the Brazilian Amazon, making the region essential not only for conserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change, but also for the cultural survival, self-determination and the well-being of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon, "he concluded.