Leonardo DiCaprio pledges $43m to restore the Galápagos Islands

Environmentalist actor, with other conservation groups, aims to rewild the entire archipelago and other Pacific islands in Latin America

Leonardo DiCaprio has announced a $43m (30.4m) pledge to enact sweeping conservation operations across the Galapagos Islands, with his social media accounts taken over by a wildlife veterinarian and island restoration specialist.

The initiative, in partnership with Re:wild, an organisation founded this year by a group of renowned conservation scientists and DiCaprio, the Galapagos National Park Directorate, Island Conservation, and local communities, aims to rewild the entire Galapagos Islands, as well as all of Latin America's Pacific archipelagos.