Leo DiCaprio's Latest Project: Tiny Frog in Way of a Power Line

Leonardo DiCaprio is throwing his weight behind a tiny Andean frog standing in the way of a major power line. On Instagram, the actor urged Chilean officials to safeguard the critically endangered Pehuenche spiny-chest frog, reports Bloomberg, warning that fewer than 1,000 remain and that a planned Chile-Argentina transmission project is "a catastrophic plan to destroy the heart of their only known habitat."

The Los Cóndores-Río Diamante line, proposed by Enel Generacion Chile, would link the countries' grids to bolster flexibility and decarbonization, and is still under environmental review. Conservation groups aren't asking to kill the project, DiCaprio noted, but rather "asking for it to be built where it does not put a Critically Endangered species at even greater risk." His move echoes past celebrity interventions in Chilean environmental fights and comes after his social-media push against a major copper mine in Panama last year, which was later ordered closed. (It's not DiCaprio's only move lately toward preserving endangered species.)