Leonardo Dicaprio pledges $5 million to reduce Amazon rainforest fires; G-7 joins in

Leonardo DiCaprio pledges $5 million to help reduce the fires in the Amazon rainforest. G-7 nations will provide at least $22 million in emergency funding.

The post has been liked more than 1 million times in less than 24 hours. Dicaprio also asked his 34 million folllowers to donate to the fund, with Earth Alliance promising that 100% of the money raised will go directly to forest preservation efforts."The governments around the world, including Brazil, need to work together to make sure this doesn't continue," he said.

The G-7 countries — Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S. — represent 40% of global GDP .

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