Ator Leonardo DiCaprio promete US$ 5 milhões para combater incêndios na Amazônia 

O ator Leonardo DiCaprio junto com sua fundação, a Earth Alliance, prometeram doar o valor de US$ 5 milhões para combater e preservar a Amazônia.

Ele já havia falado sobre as queimadas na região, que ganharam força e repercussão mundial na última semana.

Ele compartilhou uma publicação em sua rede social, e explicou a decisão: "A Earth Alliance, lançada em julho por mim, Laurene Powell Jobs [viúva de Steve Jobs] e Brian Sheth, formou um fundo de emergência para a Amazônia, com um comprometimento de US$ 5 milhões para preservar recursos críticos e comunidade indígenas, se unindo com parceiros locais para proteger a biodiversidade da Amazônia contra o recente crescimento de incêndios por toda a região".

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#Regram #RG @earthalliance #EarthAlliance, launched in July by @LeonardoDiCaprio, Laurene Powell Jobs, and Brian Sheth, has formed an emergency Amazon Forest Fund with a commitment of $5 million dollars to focus critical resources for indigenous communities and other local partners working to protect the life-sustaining biodiversity of the Amazon against the surge of fires currently burning across the region. Join Us. 100 percent of your donation will go to partners who are working on the ground to protect the Amazon. Earth Alliance is committed to helping protect the natural world. We are deeply concerned about the ongoing crisis in the Amazon, which highlights the delicate balance of climate, biodiversity, and the wellbeing of indigenous peoples. To learn more or to donate, please visit ealliance.org/amazonfund (see link in bio) Photos: @chamiltonjames, @danielbeltraphoto 2017

Uma publicação compartilhada por Leonardo DiCaprio (@leonardodicaprio) em 25 de Ago, 2019 às 6:51 PDT

Mas redes sociais o ator presta apoio aos brasileiros sobre as queimadas na floresta amazônica. E parabeniza os bombeiros e todas aqueles que cuidam para combater os incêndios.

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#Regram #RG @chamiltonjames The real heroes of fires are of course the firefighters. In the Amazon they often work with nothing but machetes and leaf blowers and small tanks of fire suppressant. I worked with a troop of them in eastern Brazil back in 2017. It was tough hot and at times hopeless work. Some of them were Guajajara tribesmen who had dedicated their lives to protecting what was left of their ancestral forests - most had already been logged and burned. Some of them had been murdered for trying. It was brutal and tragic and we should all bow down to them for what they do - for so little money that they have to roll cigarettes with writing paper.

Uma publicação compartilhada por Leonardo DiCaprio (@leonardodicaprio) em 25 de Ago, 2019 às 2:11 PDT

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#Regram #RG @IamNickRose: Terrifying to think that the Amazon is the largest rain forest on the planet, creating 20% of the earth’s oxygen, basically the lungs of the world, has been on fire and burning for the last 16 days running, with literally NO media coverage whatsoever! Why?

Uma publicação compartilhada por Leonardo DiCaprio (@leonardodicaprio) em 21 de Ago, 2019 às 12:11 PDT