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Collected Item: “Wildlife activists during the pandemic”

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Wildlife activists during the pandemic

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This is an instagram post made by Leonardo Dicaprio. Leonardo Dicaprio is a very big activist for wildlife conservation and has donated millions of dollars over the years to help wildlife. This post specifically is talking about how the last year has had a hard impact on wildlife with COVID being one of the biggest factors. This post explains how he will be helping even more than he already has and how he will be helping and how others can help too. He explains in the post how important wildlife is to the planet as a whole and how we need to take action before it is too late.

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#HST494, #ASU, #wildlife, #conservation, #globalwarming

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Leonardo Dicaprio

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2020-12-01
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