WOW.. Leonardo Dicaprio: His Travelling and Environmental Campaign in Aceh, Indonesia

Leonardo Dicaprio, the 2016 Oscar-winner, once came to Aceh on March 2016, to remind environmental awareness. Aceh Is a province at the western end of Sumatran Island, Indonesia. Leonardo Dicaprio visited Leuser National Park with actors Adrien Brody and Fisher Stevans for an environmental campaign. They came to see the biodiversity of Leuser and orangutans at Ketambe Research Station, Southeast Aceh District. Leuser National Park is a conservation area of flora and fauna located in the province of Aceh and North Sumatra. The area is also known as a conservation area of orang utan to rhinoceros and Sumatran tiger.

Through his Intagram account (@leanardodicaprio), he said that;
“The lowland rainforest of the Leuser Ecosystem are considered the world’s best remaining habitat for the cratically endangered Sumatran elephant. In this forest, ancient elephant migratory paths are still used by some of the last wild herds of Sumatran elephants. But the expansion of Palm Oil plantation is fragmenting the forest and cutting off key elephant migratory corridor, making it more difficult for elephant families to find adequate sources of food and water. The Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation is supporting local partner to establish a mega-fauna sanctuary in the Leuser Ecosystem, last place on Earth where Sumatran rangutans, tigers, rhinos and elephants coexist in the wild.”

Through the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, he supports conservation activities around the world. In Indonesia, this foundation helps conservation in Bukit Tiga Puluh National Park and Aceh forest.

Andrien Broody, Photo Credit (gunungleuser.or.id)

Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation donated 3.2 million USD into Rainforest Action Network and Haka to safeguard the Leuser ecosystem in one of Sumatra's rain forests