REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio spent the holidays on Sunday (27/3) in the Gunung Leuser National Park, Aceh. Reporting from the official website of Gunung Leuser National Park, who plays Jack Dawson in Titanic movie, is watched directly biodiversity Ketambe Research Station, Southeast Aceh Regency.
The arrival of Hugh Glass cast in the movie The Revenant is getting enthusiastic response from local residents. Leo and a helicopter carrying the team landed in SMA Negeri 1 Ketambe surrounded by residents quoted from the official page Gunung Leuser National Park, gunungleuser.or.id.
Leo came to Indonesia to see the progress of the program in East Aceh. At first, he had no plans to come to Aceh Tenggara, but he wants to see the research station's oldest Sumatran orangutan and the Sumatran Orangutan directly looks at the habitat that is in the Gunung Leuser National Park.
Leo was very amazed by the beauty of the forest Gunung Leuser National Park in SP Ketambe and hear the sounds of hornbills and other bird species. For nearly two hours he spent to watch the behavior of the Sumatran Orangutan (Pongo abelii), wildlife 97 percent genetically similar to humans.
Leonardo DiCaprio is an actor and environmental activist who aggressively campaigned climate change. Through the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, he actively supports conservation activities worldwide.
In Indonesia, the Foundation helps conservation in Bukit Tigapuluh National Park and the forests of Aceh. Indonesia is an important for them because it has a very high biodiversity. No wonder the forest fires which spends about 2 million hectares of land last year to make it and the world gasped.
During his visit, Leo and colleagues another actor, Adrien Brody (actor Jack Driscoll in the film Kingkong and Fisher Stevens and his crew to witness firsthand the biodiversity in Research Station Ketambe, Southeast Aceh District. He also met with three Sumatran Orangutan (Pongo abelii) adult at a location not far from the camp of the study.
Leo was very amazed by the beauty of the forest Gunung Leuser National Park in SP Ketambe and hear the sounds of hornbills and other bird species. For nearly two hours he spent to watch the behavior of the Sumatran Orangutan (Pongo abelii), wildlife 97 percent genetically similar to humans.
"Great Hall TNGL supporting parties acting in good faith to help the conservation of Leuser. We also appreciate the environmental activists campaigning for the preservation of nature, including Leonardo DiCaprio and his colleagues ", said the Head of TNGL, Andi Basrul quoted from page gunungleuser.or.id.
"The important thing anyone who walks into a conservation area stay abreast with administering licensing procedures according to regulations", he added.
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