Leonardo DiCaprio may be banned
from returning to Indonesia over his criticisms that palm oil plantations are
destroying the country’s rainforests and endangering wildlife, an immigration
official said Saturday.
The Oscar winner made a one-day
visit to protected Mount Leuser National Park in northern Sumatra last weekend
and uploaded photos to his Instagram account, expressing concerns over species
whose habitats are threatened.
“The expansion of palm oil
plantations is fragmenting the forest and cutting off key elephant migration
corridors. A world-class biodiversity hotspot, but palm oil expansion is
destroying this unique place.”