{"id":6703,"date":"2019-08-27T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=6703"},"modified":"2019-10-26T18:15:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T18:15:48","slug":"amazon-fires-leonardo-dicaprio-gives-5m-for-rainforest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/08\/27\/amazon-fires-leonardo-dicaprio-gives-5m-for-rainforest\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon fires: Leonardo DiCaprio gives $5m for rainforest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Leonardo DiCaprio&#8217;s environmental organisation is putting $5m (\u00a34.1m) towards helping the Amazon rainforest after the recent surge in fires there.<\/p>\n<p>Earth Alliance will give the money to local groups and indigenous communities as they work to protect the Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>The National Institute for Space Research in Brazil says there have been more than 72,000 fires in the Amazon rainforest this year.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s up from 40,000 at the same point last year.<\/p>\n<p>A statement on the Earth Alliance website says: &#8220;The destruction of the Amazon rainforest is rapidly releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, destroying an ecosystem that absorbs millions of tonnes of carbon emissions every year and is one of the planet&#8217;s best defences against the climate crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-with-caption\">\n<div class=\"player-with-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6697\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/nasafire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/nasafire.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/nasafire-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/nasafire-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The organisations receiving the cash are Instituto Associacao Floresta Protegida (Kayapo), Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB), Instituto Kabu (Kayapo), Instituto Raoni (Kayapo) and Instituto Socioambiental (ISA).<\/p>\n<p>The surge in forest fires has been put down to a rise in deliberate deforestation for cattle farming.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><\/figure>\n<p>Brazil&#8217;s President Jair Bolsonaro has been accused by critics of encouraging the destruction of the Amazon through a lack of action on environmental issues.<\/p>\n<p>But he says non-governmental organisations (NGOs) &#8211; like charities &#8211; could be to blame for starting the record number of fires. He hasn&#8217;t offered any evidence for this claim.<\/p>\n<p>Earth Alliance was founded by Leo and two other philanthropists in July &#8211; aiming to protect wildlife, push for climate justice and secure indigenous rights.<\/p>\n<p>The Amazon Forest Fund is the group&#8217;s initiative to raise money for the protection of this specific area.<\/p>\n<p>In an Instagram post on Saturday, the actor said he is &#8220;deeply concerned about the ongoing crisis in the Amazon, which highlights the delicate balance of climate, biodiversity, and the wellbeing of indigenous peoples&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"social-embed\">\n<div class=\"social-embed-post social-embed-instagram\">\n<div class=\"embed embed-instagram\">\n<div class=\"embed-region embed-core-hidden\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Instagram post by leonardodicaprio\">\n<div class=\"social-embed\">\n<div class=\"social-embed-post social-embed-instagram\">\n<div class=\"embed embed-instagram\">\n<div class=\"embed-region embed-core-hidden\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Instagram post by leonardodicaprio\"><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B1ltuBjlNuY\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=12&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com&amp;rp=%2Fnews%2Fnewsbeat-49472920#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A28951%7D\" height=\"1094\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-report-js\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><\/figure>\n<p>He wants the public to get involved and support the crisis too, linking to ways people can make donations.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, international leaders at the G7 summit in Biarritz, France, are reportedly reaching an agreement on international help towards the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Britain would provide \u00a310m to protect the Amazon rainforest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>source:bbc<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonardo DiCaprio&#8217;s environmental organisation is putting $5m (\u00a34.1m) towards helping the Amazon rainforest after the recent surge in fires there. Earth Alliance will give the money to local groups and indigenous communities as they work to protect the Amazon. The National Institute for Space Research in Brazil says there have been more than 72,000 fires [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11261,10618,6728,5310,605,2735,465,7559,559,5090,157,2422,1725,5307,9328,10869,7331,8440,8043,8116,9292,4840,5575,9643,462,5910,8394,602,10954,10981,603,5205,10419,604,9683,5612,11973,3805,466,3174,4625,560,5470,12605,6547,3954,10415],"class_list":["post-6703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-accused","tag-actor","tag-alliance","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-rainforest","tag-bbc","tag-biarritz","tag-biodiversity","tag-bolsonaro","tag-boris","tag-boris-johnson","tag-brazil","tag-brazilian","tag-britain","tag-carbon","tag-carbon-dioxide","tag-cash","tag-crisis","tag-deforestation","tag-destruction","tag-earth","tag-farming","tag-france","tag-fund","tag-g7","tag-initiative","tag-instagram","tag-instituto-associacao-floresta-protegida","tag-international","tag-isa","tag-jair-bolsonaro","tag-july","tag-justice","tag-leonardo-dicaprio","tag-millions","tag-money","tag-one","tag-president","tag-president-jair-bolsonaro","tag-prime-minister","tag-prime-minister-boris-johnson","tag-rainforest","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-wildlife","tag-will","tag-work"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}