Leonardo DiCaprio Meets an Orangutan, Fights for Animal Welfare in Leuser

Leonardo DiCaprio touches a Sumatran Orangutan while wearing a medical mask in this new photo posted to his Facebook from his trip to the Leuser Ecosystem in Indonesia.

“As the forests of Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem continue to be cleared to meet demand for Palm Oil, the critically endangered Sumatran orangutan is being pushed to the brink of extinction. At the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP)’s Orangutan Quarantine Center, rescued orangutans are rehabilitated so they can be released back into the wild,” the 41-year-old Oscar winner wrote on his Facebook, along with a link of how to help the species.

The Leuser ecosystem is last place on earth where orangutans, rhinos, tigers and elephants still live together in the wild, and it is currently being threatened by Palm Oil agricultural destruction.