Leonardo DiCaprio Urges Fans to Call U.S. Representatives and Fight Against Bill to Dismantle the Endangered Species Act: ‘Reject This Existential Threat’

Leonardo DiCaprio is marking Earth Day by calling on his 60 million Instagram followers to contact members of the U.S. House of Representatives and urge them to vote “no” on a bill that seeks to dismantle the Endangered Species Act (ESA), which was signed into law by Richard Nixon in 1973. The ESA is the primary law protecting and conserving species in the U.S. from extinction.

“Today, on Earth Day of all days, the U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote to gut the Endangered Species Act (ESA), trading the future of life on Earth for the short-term economic gain of a wealthy few,” DiCaprio wrote in a

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