The actor Leonardo Dicaprio has asked on Instagram to stop felling trees native forests in Australia to save the threatened migratory parrotof which it is estimated that there are between 750 and 1,000 copies in the wild. “It is estimated that there are only 750 migratory parrots left, but forest destruction has continued in their only breeding grounds in eastern Tasmania,” DiCaprio wrote on Instagram, where he has 62.2 million followers, in a message this Friday according to the Australian time zone.

The American actor and environmental activist noted that environmentalists from the Bob Brown Foundation have obtained a court order to temporarily stop the felling of trees in forests where these birds nest in Tasmania, in southeastern Australia, but requested that the ban be permanent.

The migratory parrot (Lathamus discolor), which lives in southeastern Australia, is the only member of its genus and is considered critically endangered, according to the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

The parakeet or migratory parrot is recognized by its plumage mostly green, a red spot around the beak and long, pointed wings.

Currently, there are between 750 and 1,000 specimens left in the wild and the main threat is the loss and degradation of their habitat. due to logging, agriculture and urban development, according to the report “The action plan for Australian birds”, published by the Australian scientific agency CSIRO. In his Instagram message, DiCaprio, actor in films like The Revenant either The Wolf of Wall Street, reminded the Australian Government that it has promised to prevent further extinctions in its country. “The only way to protect the migratory parrot, and hundreds of other threatened Australian forest species, is to end tree felling throughout Australia and Tasmania,” concluded the Hollywood interpreter.