Leonardo DiCaprio

one of the most important activists of our century

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Who is
z Leonardo DiCaprio?
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974) is an American actor, film
producer, and environmentalist. He has been nominated for six Academy Awards,
four British Academy Film Awards and nine Screen Actors Guild Awards, winning one
of each award from them and three Golden Globe Awards from eleven nominations.

What has he done?

• The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (LDF), that supports innovative projects
trying to protect the environment, to accelerate the best solutions to climate
change and more
• His documentaries Before The Flood (2016) and The 11th Hour (2007) to talk
about his work trying to sensitize the world about the climate change and talking
about what our planet is forced to face.
• His donations to WWF to protect tigers from extinction, to stop overfishing and his
financing to the initiative to create marine reserves in the Pacific.
• His numerous speeches about the world’s most important problems at the United
Nations, at the Golden Globes and at the Oscars.
• He has always showed his support to the most famous activists of our time such
as Greta Thunberg and Michael Mann.
“Youz are the last, best hope of Earth. We ask you
to protect it. Or we, and all living things we
cherish, are history.”
— to the United Nations in 2016

—Leonardo DiCaprio (UN Messenger of

Peace) at International Day of Peace 2016
The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
“In 1998, Leonardo DiCaprio established his foundation with the mission of protecting the
world’s last wild places. LDF implements solutions that help restore balance to threatened
ecosystems, ensuring the long-term health and well-being of all Earth’s inhabitants. Since that
time the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (LDF) has worked on some of the most pressing
environmental issues of our day.”
−The LDF Website

The LDF’szwork is divided into six main program areas – Wildlands Conservation,
Oceans Conservation, Climate Change, Indigenous Rights, Transforming California and
Innovative Solutions