News: Leonardo DiCaprio donates $3 million to Oceana to protect sharks, dolphins, & other marine animals

Just four months after donating $3 million to the World Wildlife Federation in order to help protect tigers in Nepal, the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation has given another $3 million to Oceana, this time to protect sharks, dolphins, and other marine animals from being caught and killed as "bycatch"
Oceana is the largest international advocacy group working on behalf of the world’s oceans.
“The foundation and Leo’s support for campaigns like our efforts to ban the drift gillnets in California will help Oceana win more protections for countless sharks and other marine animals and for ocean habitats in the Pacific and Arctic–which include some of the most productive ocean places in the world,” said Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless. “The net impact will be a much more abundant and bio diverse ocean that has many millions more sharks and critical and amazing marine animals, wilder and more pristine ocean habitats and oceans that can feed over a billion people–many of them hungry–a healthy seafood meal each day.”
The money was awarded as part of Christie’s 11th Hour Auction, and will be given to the group over a three year period.