Hindus have welcomed Oscar nominated Hollywood actor-producer Leonardo DiCaprio’s (The Aviator) bold initiative of donating $3 million for saving tigers in Nepal.
According to reports, this grant by Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (LDF) will help World Wildlife Fund (WWF) double Nepal’s wild tiger population by 2022 (next Chinese Year of the Tiger), create tiger corridors, protect core areas for tiger breeding, prevent poaching, monitoring and helping communities. DiCaprio, who says that “time is running out for the world’s remaining 3,200 tigers”, joined forces with WWF in 2010 to launch Save Tigers Now.
Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, commended LDF’s reported focus on “empowering local communities”, which were mostly Hindu. The densely populated Terai Arc Landscape of Nepal, where the grant will be used, was said to be home to about seven million people, and we hoped that LDF and WWF would give due consideration to their livelihoods also as they depended on the available natural resources. LDF and WWF should work more closely with local communities to find solutions and ensure real success, Zed added.
Hindus have welcomed Oscar nominated Hollywood actor-producer Leonardo DiCaprio’s (The Aviator) bold initiative of donating $3 million for saving tigers in Nepal.
Hindus have welcomed Oscar nominated Hollywood actor-producer Leonardo DiCaprio’s (The Aviator) bold initiative of donating $3 million for saving tigers in Nepal.
According to reports, this grant by Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (LDF) will help World Wildlife Fund (WWF) double Nepal’s wild tiger population by 2022 (next Chinese Year of the Tiger), create tiger corridors, protect core areas for tiger breeding, prevent poaching, monitoring and helping communities. DiCaprio, who says that “time is running out for the world’s remaining 3,200 tigers”, joined forces with WWF in 2010 to launch Save Tigers Now.
Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, commended LDF’s reported focus on “empowering local communities”, which were mostly Hindu. The densely populated Terai Arc Landscape of Nepal, where the grant will be used, was said to be home to about seven million people, and we hoped that LDF and WWF would give due consideration to their livelihoods also as they depended on the available natural resources. LDF and WWF should work more closely with local communities to find solutions and ensure real success, Zed added.
According to reports, this grant by Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (LDF) will help World Wildlife Fund (WWF) double Nepal’s wild tiger population by 2022 (next Chinese Year of the Tiger), create tiger corridors, protect core areas for tiger breeding, prevent poaching, monitoring and helping communities. DiCaprio, who says that “time is running out for the world’s remaining 3,200 tigers”, joined forces with WWF in 2010 to launch Save Tigers Now.
Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, commended LDF’s reported focus on “empowering local communities”, which were mostly Hindu. The densely populated Terai Arc Landscape of Nepal, where the grant will be used, was said to be home to about seven million people, and we hoped that LDF and WWF would give due consideration to their livelihoods also as they depended on the available natural resources. LDF and WWF should work more closely with local communities to find solutions and ensure real success, Zed added.
By:IANS