Leonardo DiCaprio's Earth alliance fund to donate USD 5 million in aid amid Amazon fires

Leonardo DiCaprio's new environmental organisation Earth Alliance, has pledged USD five million to help preserve the Amazon rainforest amid raging fires. The Hollywood star has created the organisation with friends, Laurene Powell Jobs and Brian Sheth. According to Earth Alliance's website, the funds will be donated to five local organisations: 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).

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