U.S. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio Donates U.S.$1 Million to Seychelles
The American actor Leonardo DiCaprio, an increasingly active environmentalist, is donating $1 million to the Seychelles for the island nation's climate change adaption fund, the environment minister said this week.
The money is the first installment of a $5 million grant that several organizations will be giving the small island state in February that will be used to help with biotechnology and the fisheries industry.
The Seychelles minister for environment, Didier Dogley, told SNA the government is also receiving assistance from the U.S. environmental organization The Nature Conservancy.
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Danny Harrison