Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has praised the efforts of the state administration of Assam, which is located in the northeastern part of India, to put an end to the poaching of rhinos. The star of “Titanic” took to Instagram to express his gratitude for Assam’s success in putting an end to poaching in Kaziranga National Park, which is home to the critically endangered one-horned rhinoceros. Read more here about how Twitter is mocking Leonardo DiCaprio over his relationship with Eden Polani, who is 19 years old.
He wrote, “After nearly 190 animals were killed for their horns between the years 2000 and 2021, the government of the Indian state of Assam is determined to put an end to the poaching of the endangered Greater One-horned Rhinoceros in Kaziranga National Park in the year 2021.” This was in reference to the fact that the poaching occurred in the park. They were successful, and in 2022, for the first time since 1977, there were no reports of poaching of rhinos in the region.
Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in the Indian state of Assam is home to the world’s largest population of one-horned rhinoceroses and welcomes tourists from all over the globe due to its location in the floodplains of the Brahmaputra River. The number of rhinos that were murdered by poachers was 17 and 18, respectively, in the years 2015 and 2016, but this figure dropped to two in the years 2020 and 2021, and it reached zero in the year 2022.
Leonardo is an ardent environmentalist. His efforts to assist animals span an equally broad scope. In the tasks that he has undertaken for the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (LDF), he has sought to protect endangered animals.
Reportedly, in 2010, the LDF contributed one million dollars to an innovative conservation effort in Nepal with the goal of preserving that nation’s wild tiger population. In addition, the LDF has contributed funding to conservation efforts aimed at preserving the black rhino in Tanzania, the lowland gorilla in Central Africa, and the snow leopard in Central Asia.
At the Our Ocean Summit in 2014, the LDF made a commitment to provide money for marine conservation activities in the amount of $7 million USD.