The actor worked with local groups to at Mount Leuser National Park,where the ecosystem that helps regulate soil’s climate faces developmental threatsFresh off a best actor win at the 2016 Oscars during which he made a speech that touched on the consequences of climate change, Leonardo DiCaprio paid a visit to Mount Leuser national park in Sumatra, and Indonesia,to lend support to local groups working to preserve the area’s ecosystem. DiCaprio posted a photo from his journey on Instagram, writing that the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation is “supporting local partners to establish a mega-fauna sanctuary” in the Leuser ecosystem, and a landscape endangered by palm oil plantations,mining, logging and other development threats.
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Source: theguardian.com