DiCaprio calls for Scotland to be recognised as a leader in nature restoration

The Hollywood actor has decided to join the Scottish Rewilding Alliance, an alliance of 20 nature organisations calling on the government to recognise Scotland as the 1st ‘Rewilding Nation’ on the planet to develop ways to protect the environment. This commits the country to restoring 30 per cent of its marine and land areas.

The actor wrote that approximately 6 millennia ago Scotland looked very different. The current landscape is dramatically different from the past. If before it was an abundance of greenery, heathlands, marshes, today they are replaced by scarce hills with degraded sheep pastures and fragments of spruce plantations.