Leonardo DiCaprio continues to put his money where his mouth is.
, the actor continued to wield the might of his pocketbook in the name of planet Earth, by donating $5 million to help the Amazon rainforest, which continue to be ravaged by wildfires. The money, which is approximately one tenth of what he made for starring in Christopher Nolan’sDiCaprio has also been raising awareness about the fires on his Instagram, where he’s asking for donations—albeit much smaller in size than his own—to help the efforts currently underway in Brazil.
He also took time to highlight the efforts of the firefighters who are working around the clock to help stave off the fires. DiCaprio called them “real heroes,” and highlighted the limited resources they have to do their jobs. “In the Amazon they often work with nothing but machetes and leaf blowers and small tanks of fire suppressant,” he wrote before describing a sting in which he visited Brazil and worked alongside them. “It was tough hot and at times hopeless work.
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