{"id":3135,"date":"2019-02-27T04:07:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T01:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freerussianwhales.org\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2026-03-29T19:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:01:37","slug":"leonardo-dicaprio-called-the-capture-of-orcas-and-belugas-inhumane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freerussianwhales.org\/en\/leonardo-dicaprio-called-the-capture-of-orcas-and-belugas-inhumane\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo DiCaprio called the capture of orcas and belugas inhumane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Famous and beloved actor Leonardo DiCaprio, an Oscar\nwinner, published on his Facebook and Twitter pages an appeal to sign the\npetition and support him in his attempt to stop the inhumane capture of orcas\nand beluga whales in Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12\norcas and 90 beluga whales were illegally captured in 2018 in the Sea of\n\u200b\u200bOkhotsk and are now held in the \u201cwhale jail\u201d in Srednyaya Bay in Primorye,\nRussia. Two orcas and\nthree belugas have already disappeared without a trace, although according to\nthe captors one killer whale was released due to aggressive behavior, while the\nrest of the animals \u201cescaped\u201d from the enclosures. But it\u2019s more likely that\nthe animals died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within just 4 hours after Leo\u2019s posted on social media more than\n14 thousand people \u201cliked\u201d it and almost 5 thousand reposted \/ retweeted, the\nnumber of signatures on a petition on change.org\/whalejail<\/a> that\u2019s calls for\nreturn of animals to their natural habitat began to grow rapidly and is already\napproaching 900 000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leonardo DiCaprio is known for his actions to preserve wildlife.\nIn 2016, at the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland), he received the\nCrystal Award for his contribution to environmental protection. Back in 1998,\nhe created the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and allocated more than $ 30 million\nfor the development of 70 innovative projects in 40 countries in the field of\nenvironmental protection, marine fauna and animal species threatened with\nextinction. Since 2014, Leo has been the UN ambassador for climate change. In\n2016, he made the film “Before the Flood”, telling about climate\nchange, the global extinction of species and how people can try to prevent the\ndeath of endangered species, ecosystems and natural communities of the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2015, the Russian organization Sakhalin Environment Watch\nalso became a recipient of a grant from Leonardo DiCaprio, but was forced to\nreturn it in full amount in connection with the law “on foreign\nagents.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We thank Leo for his support and hope that our country will\nadequately come out of this situation and release the orcas and beluga whales,\nand also ban such truly inhumane captures of marine mammals. The President of\nRussia has already given such instructions to the relevant ministries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leo\u2019s post on FB:\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LeonardoDiCaprio\/posts\/10155841789897116<\/a>
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Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeoDiCaprio\/status\/1100442483195105280<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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