LOS ÁNGELES (AP) — La organización ambientalista del actor Leonardo DiCaprio donará 3 millones de dólares para ayudar a combatir los incendios forestales que azotan Australia.

Earth Alliance creó el Australia Wildfire Fund para ayudar a la “respuesta internacional ante los catastróficos incendios forestales” que arden en el país, indicó el organismo ambientalista.

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Los incendios forestales han quemado una zona un poco mayor a la superficie de Panamá, han dejado 25 muertos y destruido 2,000 viviendas.

Leonardo DiCaprio copreside la organización que fue creada el año pasado para combatir el cambio climático y la pérdida de biodiversidad.

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#Regram #RG @gretathunberg: Australia is on fire. And the summer there has only just begun. 2019 was a year of record heat and record drought. Today the temperature outside Sydney was 48,9°C. 500 million (!!) animals are estimated dead because of the bushfires. Over 20 people have died and thousands of homes have burned to ground. The fires have spewed 2/3 of the nations national annual CO2 emissions, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. The smoke has covered glaciers in distant New Zealand (!) making them warm and melt faster because of the albedo effect. And yet. All of this still has not resulted in any political action. Because we still fail to make the connection between the climate crisis and increased extreme weather events and nature disasters like the #AustraliaFires That has to change. And it has to change now. My thoughts are with the people of Australia and those affected by these devastating fires. (Photo: Matthew Abbott for The New York Times)

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