The Wolf of Wall Street’s Leonardo DiCaprio did it yet again! Go Leo! He hosted a huge star-studded fundraising gala in France to promote the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation’s endangered species programs. The event guests included like Selena Gomez, Joan Collins, Petra Nemcova, Cara Delevingne, Jared Leto, Marion Cotillard, Robin Thicke and Bono (who auctioned off his personal guitar for $1 million). Dicaprio said at the event, “There has never been, since the time of dinosaurs, as many plant and animal species disappearing so quickly,” We must make efforts to protect rich biodiversity.” Bono The event drew an impressive $25 million from guests. Big auction items included artwork from artists like Damien Hirst and Pablo Picasso, DiCaprio’s own Harley Davidson motorcycle signed by Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro and Bono, and rock n’ roll memorabilia. Recently DiCaprio met with Secretary of State John Kerry in D.C. for the State Department conference to help save the world’s oceans. DiCaprio stated “What we need is sustained activism and courageous political leadership, we cannot afford to be bystanders in this pre-apocalyptic scenario.” LEO Earlier this year the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation howled and cut a $3 million check to Oceana. Oceana is an organization of environmental advocates dedicated to saving ocean wildlife. Today at the Ocean conference, DiCaprio pledged another $7 million from his foundation “to meaningful conservation projects” over the next two years! Woof-woof! “It’s my hope that this grant will help Oceana continue the tremendous work that they do daily on behalf of our oceans. 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 said in a statement released by Washington DC-based group Oceana. Leonardo Dicaprio DiCaprio’s grant will help save sharks, dolphins, whales, sea turtles and other endangered species that fisherman catch in gillnets off the California coast, mostly for catching seafood and swordfish. “The foundation and Leo’s support for campaigns like our efforts to ban the drift gill nets in California will help Oceana win more protections for countless sharks and other marine animals and for ocean habitats in the Pacific and Arctic – which include some of the most productive ocean places in the world,” said Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless. Leonardo DiCaprio It’s safe to say that DiCaprio is on a wildlife and oceanic rescue mission! In 2013 he awarded a $3 million grant to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to help rescue Nepal’s tigers! Also last year, Christie’s auction house raised $38.8 million through a charity art auction and donations, for the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. DiCaprio organized the 33 works in The 11th Hour Auction and set 13 records for artists including Carol Bove, Joe Bradley, Mark Grotjahn, Raymond Pettibon and Mark Ryden, among others. Let’s join Leo DiCaprio and protect rich biodiversity, plants and animals! Click here to visit the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation site.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 05:03:51 +0000
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