Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio praises Assam Government’s effort to end the poaching of one horned Rhinoceros.

Leonardo
DiCaprio, the Titanic actor has been working from a long time as an
environmentalist. At the of 24 years, in the year 1998, Leo started the
Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, a non profit organization to support
organizations and projects working towards the welfare of the environment such
as by combating climate change, protecting wildlife, forest conservation etc.
The
foundation has supported over 200 organizations across 50 countries and has
helped to preserve over 35 million acres of land and 5,000 miles of coastline.
The Oscar
winning Hollywood actor is often seen sharing posts related to the environment
in his social media handle. In the last post of his Instagram, the actor posted
about the end of poaching of the one horned Rhinoceros found in Assam’s Kaziranga
National Park.
In his
social media post, Leonardo praises the efforts of the Government of Assam in
putting an end to poaching of the Endangered Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros in
Kaziranga National Park in the state in 2022.
“In 2021,
the government of the Indian state of Assam set out to end the poaching of the
Endangered Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros in Kaziranga National Park following
the killing of around 190 animals for their horns between 2000 and 2021. In
2022, they met their goal and no rhinos were poached in the area for the first
time since 1977,” the actor wrote.
“Kaziranga
National Park is home to 2,200 Greater One-horned Rhinos, which is about
two-thirds of the world’s population. This triumph in India also comes with
more good news, as @wwf (World Wildlife Fund) also reports that the world
population of the rare rhino soared to around 3,700 from about 200 at the turn
of the 20th century,” he added.
The Assam
state government on January 1 announced that for the first time since 1977,
there was not a single poaching of the endangered animal in the state in 2022.
The end
of the poaching was possible after the Assam government’s initiative to form a
special Anti-poaching task force back in July 2021. The number of poaching
cases after that in the same year came to as low as just one case in 21 years.
In the
same year, the CM said there are myths in some sections of the society that
leads to killing/poaching of the endangered animal and in regards to that, the
CM burned 2500 Rhino horns in September 2021 which has been recovered and
preserved by them for the past four decades.
Following
the actor’s post, the CM of Assam Himanta Biswa Sarma took to his Twitter
handle on Friday and invited the Hollywood actor and ardent environmentalist,
Leonardo DiCaprio to the Kanziranga National Park.
The CM
wrote, "Preserving wildlife is integral to our cultural identity."
“We are
dedicated to persevering and safeguarding our rich cultural heritage. Thank you
for your kind words, @LeoDiCaprio, and I extend a warm invitation to you to
visit @kaziranga_ and Assam,” he added.
Earlier,
on January 2022, former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen had also praised the efforts
of putting an end to the poaching of the endangered Rhino.
According to the last survey conducted in the month of March 2022, the number of the endangered animal in the park have seen a great rise i.e., it stands at 2,613 as compared to the survey conducted back in 2018.
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