Leonardo DiCaprio Celebrates a Great Achievement in Mexico! The Hollywood star used her platform to share a very important issue that involves Mexico’s waters and the current state of the global environment.
Conservationists from North and Latin America have joined global experts from the UK to develop a plan that would bring back the golden skiffia, a rare fish that went extinct 30 years ago.
The Hollywood star supported the cause and shared the news on his social media accounts, celebrating news of the return of the fish, after 1,200 golden skiffia were reintroduced into the Teuchitlán River in west-central Mexico after they disappeared in the 1990s.
“This year’s Day of the Dead celebrations included a unique ‘resurrection’ in Jalisco, Mexico, where conservationists released more than 1,000 Golden Skiffia into the fish’s natural range in the Teuchitlán River. . Freshwater fish had not been documented in the wild since the late 1990s,” DiCaprio wrote on Twitter.
“Events, amid Mexico’s Day of the Dead celebrations, included official speeches, traditional dances and the official release of fish,” he continued, praising the work of Mexico’s Michoacan University, the Goodeid Working Group, Chester Zoo, and SHOAL, for their “collaborative conservation work”.
