Leonardo DiCaprio Donates $1 Million Towards Creating Two New Marine Reserves
ByJoseph Gibsonon March 6, 2018inArticles›Celebrity News
Leonardo DiCaprio’s proclivity towards environmental philanthropy is well known at this point. The latest example, reported recently in The Guardian , has DiCaprio’s nonprofit foundation putting a tidy $1 million towards a “debt swap” with the island nation of Seychelles. In exchange for buying $22 million of debt to the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Italy, the Nature Conservancy (with the million buck assist from DiCaprio) got the country to agree to establish two big marine reserves engineered to protect two different ecosystems from environmental threats. Here’s Leo in a press statement about the initiative:
“These protections mean that all species living in these waters or migrating through them are now far better shielded from overfishing, pollution, and climate change.” Mike Windle/Getty Images
The idea of raising money for a debt swap in order to protect vital parts of the environment is a new one, and this is the first such debt swap ever to be completed. But the hope is that other countries might repeat the process in the near future, if this one works out. It’s consistent with DiCaprio’s philanthropic endeavors in the past, as when in September of 2017, he announced a $20 million grant towards more than 100 different organizations towards fighting climate change:
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