Srijana Kunwar
Kathnmandu,Nov 26
Hollywood heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio gives 1 million dollar to world wild conservation efforts through his fund at the tiger conservation efforts at the California Community Foundation.
DiCaprio will be attending this week summit which is going to be held in St. Peters burg in Russia where the heads of the governments and states from 13 tiger range countries including Nepal are discussing about saving tigers. The main purpose of this summit is to doubling the number of wild cats by 2022.
DiCaprio a WWF board member, recently visited Nepal and Bhutan touring tiger habitat and met community members to learn about the national park tiger. DiCaprio donation will help support to protect critical tigers forests where the needs are most urgent. The government of Nepal gives totally support to International celebrity, Leonardo DiCaprio in conserving wild tigers in Nepal.
The 13 countries where tiger still exist are Bangladesh , Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar , Laos, Nepal Russia, India Thailand and Vietnam .
WWF Nepal office informed that Nepal would receive more than 50% of the fund for tiger conservation. However the amount has not been located specification in the name of any country right now.
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