Oscar-winning actor Leonardo Dicaprio has visited the Indonesian jungle to help protect a biodiverse area from deforestation.
Dicaprio spent the weekend in the Leuser ecosystem, on Indonesia’s main western island of Sumatra.
The actor, an ardent supporter of environmental causes, was pictured accompanied by local environmentalists and flanked by two critically endangered Sumatran elephants.
The elephants are among a dizzying array of rare animals that live in Leuser’s dense rain-forests.
Dicaprio said on his Instagram account that his foundation, which supports numerous environmental projects, was backing local groups to establish a “mega-fauna sanctuary” in the area.
He described the area as “the last place on earth where Sumatran orangutans, tigers, rhinos and elephants coexist in the wild”. (Eagle News Service)