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11-24-2010, 11:24 AM
Titantic star and eco-warrior Leonardo DiCaprio’s efforts to support the tiger were seconds from disaster as he tried to come to an international conservation forum in St. Petersburg.
DiCaprio was among 200 passengers on a flight from New York to Moscow which was forced to make an emergency landing after an engine blew up shortly after take off.
Delta Air’s Boeing-767 flew out over the Atlantic to dump part of its fuel load before returning to make a safe landing at JFK airport.
Autograph session
DiCaprio thanked the pilots who successfully landed the plane and signed a lot of autographs for crew and passengers.
“DiCaprio wishes to commend the actions of the pilot and flight crew in bringing the plane to a safe landing,” a representative of the 36-year-old actor was quoted as saying by the Wall Street Journal.
The actor was on his way to St Petersburg to attend the International Tiger Conservation Forum that runs November 21-24.
Saving tigers
St. Petersburg is hosting a forum to save tigers The participants of the forum will discuss a plan to double the tiger population over the next 12 years, which will require up to $350 million from the international community.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will address the International Tiger Conservation Forum on Tuesday, RIA Novosti reported, while his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao and World Bank chief Robert Zoellick will join him.
Representatives of Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), Interpol, the World Bank, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Customs Organisation will sign agreements on creating a consortium on fight against poaching.
James Leape, the director general of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), said at the forum that the WWF plans to spend $85 million in the next five years on programs aimed at restoring the tiger population.
DiCaprio is not the only star to pledge his support to the cause; anyone travelling on Aeroexpress services to Moscow’s airports will have seen the likes of Russia’s Ilya Lugatenko and Zhanna Friske appearing in WWF adverts about the on-going Year of the Tiger.
There are about 3,200 tigers left in the world, living in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam. A century ago there were about 100,000 wild tigers in Asia and the Russian Far East.
The Moscow News
DiCaprio was among 200 passengers on a flight from New York to Moscow which was forced to make an emergency landing after an engine blew up shortly after take off.
Delta Air’s Boeing-767 flew out over the Atlantic to dump part of its fuel load before returning to make a safe landing at JFK airport.
Autograph session
DiCaprio thanked the pilots who successfully landed the plane and signed a lot of autographs for crew and passengers.
“DiCaprio wishes to commend the actions of the pilot and flight crew in bringing the plane to a safe landing,” a representative of the 36-year-old actor was quoted as saying by the Wall Street Journal.
The actor was on his way to St Petersburg to attend the International Tiger Conservation Forum that runs November 21-24.
Saving tigers
St. Petersburg is hosting a forum to save tigers The participants of the forum will discuss a plan to double the tiger population over the next 12 years, which will require up to $350 million from the international community.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will address the International Tiger Conservation Forum on Tuesday, RIA Novosti reported, while his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao and World Bank chief Robert Zoellick will join him.
Representatives of Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), Interpol, the World Bank, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Customs Organisation will sign agreements on creating a consortium on fight against poaching.
James Leape, the director general of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), said at the forum that the WWF plans to spend $85 million in the next five years on programs aimed at restoring the tiger population.
DiCaprio is not the only star to pledge his support to the cause; anyone travelling on Aeroexpress services to Moscow’s airports will have seen the likes of Russia’s Ilya Lugatenko and Zhanna Friske appearing in WWF adverts about the on-going Year of the Tiger.
There are about 3,200 tigers left in the world, living in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam. A century ago there were about 100,000 wild tigers in Asia and the Russian Far East.
The Moscow News