The actor, who is in a relationship with Argentine model Camila Morrone, heads a foundation dedicated to the defense of the environment
Leonardo DiCaprio surprised by his social networks with a publication in which he highlighted Argentina for the reintroduction and the wild birth of two jaguars in the Iberá Wetlands. The actor, who is in a relationship with the Argentine model Camila Morrone, is in charge of a foundation dedicated to the defense of the environment.
This Wednesday in his Instagram account, the Oscar winner made a post in which he celebrated that jaguar "Return to roam freely through the wetlands of Iberá" after 70 years of absence.
The jaguar is the largest South American carnivore and has suffered an alarming decline in the last two centuries. In Argentina, it lost more than 95% of its range and today only at least 250 individuals survive and it is still a species classified as "critically endangered". The jaguar that inhabits this region of America is the protagonist of an effort shared by the Rewilding Argentina foundation and the national and provincial governments of Corrientes, which have undertaken to reintroduce it into the Iberá ecosystem, where it was extinguished by hunting.
In this regard, DiCaprio congratulated "To the government of Argentina, the National Parks of Argentina, the province of Corrientes and the Rewilding Foundation and Tompkins Conservation for their commitment to reconstruct this emblematic species." In the publication that has more than 88 thousand “likes”, he also thanked “the local communities of Iberá and all the people of Corrientes who have supported this unprecedented effort and who welcome the return of the jaguar”. At the same time, he related that he committed himself to help the Tompkins Conservation Foundation.
The 46-year-old actor made reference to the birth of two cubs, the third litter born in the wild in the Corrientes estuaries, whose mother, the Brazilian Mariua, gave birth at the Reintroduction Center established by Rewilding in an area of Iberá called San Alonso.
Since last January 7, Karai and Porã, born in mid-September 2020, and their mother, Mariua, have run free in the middle of the Iberá Wetlands, the place from which the species was uprooted seven decades ago, the victim of hunters and of the advance of man, who took it out of its habitat to leave it exposed on the roads where many jaguars were run over.
"With the release of the female jaguar Mariua and her two cubs born at the Jaguar Reintroduction Center, Karai and Pora, Argentina has taken an important step to ensure the future of the jaguar in Argentina, where the species is critically endangered," DiCaprio remarked.
"The return of the jaguar will also help restore the full health of the ecosystem in Iberá, as did the return of the wolves to Yellowstone in the United States," added the actor in the publication that was accompanied by a video that features almost 300 thousand reproductions. "Argentina is adopting this important reconstruction strategy as a tool to combat the extinction crisis and move towards a healthier, savage, and equitable planet," he celebrated.
The Government of Corrientes and the Fundación Rewilding Argentina had already succeeded in reintroducing other species in the same park, such as the pampas deer, the giant anteater, the red macaw, the giant otter, or the collared peccary. "A project like this, I dare to say, is unique in the world", highlighted days ago - in dialogue with Infobae - the director of the Iberá Project, Marisi López.
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