DiCaprio ponies up for sea life
Hollywood actor’s foundation donates $3 million to ocean-advocacy nonprofit
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s eponymous foundation has donated $3 million to one of the world’s biggest ocean-advocacy nonprofits.
The funds from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation will be distributed over three years’ time to Oceana, which will use the grant money “to protect threatened habitats and marine species (such as sharks) as well as to advocate for responsible fishing measures, including the effort to ban California drift gillnets,” according to The Huffington Post.
“Protecting our planet’s oceans and the marine species that call it home is one of the most pressing sustainability crises facing humanity today and a moral imperative that we must acknowledge,” DiCaprio was quoted as saying.
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