Leonardo Dicaprio’s Foundation Has Donated $100 Million To Fight Climate Change
By Maukh Saha
Back in 2016, Leonardo DiCaprio, Hollywood’s veteran sweetheart, won hearts in the film The Revenant and won an Academy Award for his role in it; his first in all his years in the film industry.
Unlike all other stars, he cited that the climate and the environment are inspirations for him and called upon the world to do some good by preserving nature and natural resources.
Since then, and even before, he has been a vocal advocate of ethical conservation, anti-extinction efforts, and relief efforts.
But he has done something now that will awe you: he has donated $100 million to various charities that combat climate change. As a frame of reference, the president and ruling party of his own country deny climate change and think it is a hoax and have pulled out of various conservation-centric treaties.
He had already established the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, whose very motto is: ‘protecting the world’s last wild places and saving vulnerable wildlife from extinction’, soon after his success.
That was twenty years ago after he achieved worldwide fame for his role as Jack Dawson, the passionate artist who roamed the world in the classic movie Titanic.
And in those two decades, with his rising portfolio as a theatrical artist par excellence, his portfolio as a philanthropist too, has reached greater and greater heights. His foundation has already worked on over two hundred projects in more than fifty countries and five oceans, supporting more than 132 organizations in the process.