Leonardo DiCaprio Receives Faux ‘Oscar’ For Environmental Activism

Leonardo DiCaprio nabbed his first Oscar at last month’s Academy Awards, and now the Revenant star can celebrate another award that he may find even more meaningful.

As The Washington Post reports, prior to DiCaprio’s Oscar win a group of filmmakers in eastern Russia sent the actor a hand-crafted statuette to honour his environmental activism.

DiCaprio has apparently received the award, and shared a photo of it on Instagram, thanking those who sent it.

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“Thank you to the people of Yakutia for this wonderful gift, especially all of the women who gathered and donated the materials that went into creating the statue,” he writes in the accompanying caption. “As they wrote in their letter, Yakutia is home to the coldest inhabited place not only in Russia, but also on Earth – and the region is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Rising temperatures pose a major threat to its people, their way of life and their natural habitat.”

Thank you to the people of Yakutia for this wonderful gift, especially all of the women who gathered and donated the materials that went into creating the statue. As they wrote in their letter, Yakutia is home to the coldest inhabited place not only in Russia, but also on Earth – and the region is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Rising temperatures pose a major threat to its people, their way of life and their natural habitat. #Russia #ClimateChange #Earth #Yakutia #ActOnClimate

A photo posted by Leonardo DiCaprio (@leonardodicaprio) on Mar 17, 2016 at 9:52am PDT