Giving Back to the World

After centuries of abuse done to the nature by its most intelligent inhabitant; humans, through their science and progress resulting in global warming, climatic changes and wildlife crisis in several parts of the world when sadly considering the fact as well that these are irreversible as the humankind excels into the future. Our systematic progress has turned a blind eye for several years to our only residential address, Earth, as we come face-to-face with the rising temperature in recent years, Glaciers melting due to the rise, decline in Arctic sea ice, sea level change, and a serious threat to the biodiversity, most specifically the wildlife and many more problems surfacing one above the another.

To curb the whole situation many organisations, peoples, companies have been working relentlessly to alter or at least keep the situation under control or even delay the effects for some time. Many eminent personalities also contributed for the environmental activities, voicing the need of the hour with the help of their popularity reaching as many people as possible in a mass platform to raise awareness and receive however little contribution by each person. Among them, one such name is of the Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s. DiCaprio needs no specific introduction, as his stay in Hollywood Film Industry produced many gems such as, ‘Titanic’, ‘Catch Me if you Can’, ‘Blood Diamond’, ‘Romeo + Juliet’, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ and many others as the list seems never ending.

However, apart from his acting talents, he has also been an Environmental Activist, supporting environmental causes as early in his career as in 1998, when he established Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation for the purpose of restricting global warming, preserving Earth's biodiversity and supporting renewable energy. From then to now, the foundation has raised $80m in 20 years. The foundation states one of its goals as ‘protecting the world's last wild places’ and they have 6 key areas of activity, including Wildlands Conservation, Oceans Conservation, Climate Change, Indigenous Rights, Transforming California, and Innovative Solutions. So far, they have contributed in wildlife conservation with saving wild tigers in Nepal and protecting the parks at Borneo, defending the indigenous rights from the Amazon to Alaska, monitoring fishing and whaling and with innovative solutions to assist in the fight against climate change. Its very easy to just sit around and complain about the changes done to the world for worse by only us and not doing anything. To stand up and help fight the challenges faced by us as the inhabitants of the Earth is a whole different thing but Leonardo DiCaprio has been a true gentleman and has been able to strike a chord with the audiences for his generosity to the planet.

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