Amazon Rainforest Fires: Akshay Kumar, Richa Chadha, Bipasha Basu Are Heartbroken; Share Their Thoughts On Social Media

Several celebs took on to social media to express their concerns about the massive Amazon Rainforest fire. It is the world’s largest forest on our planet

Amruta Patel

Thu Aug 22 2019, 16:50:43 6319 views
The Amazon Rainforest which has been burning from past 17 days or rather more than that has shook everyone. Our Bollywood celebs like always have shown their concerns about this terrible loss to mother earth. Amazon forest which is referred as Earth’s lungs is solely contributing 20% of oxygen states a report in BBC. As soon as the devastating natural calamity grabbed everyone’s attention hashtags like #PrayForTheAmazon and #SaveTheAmazon started trending on various social media platforms.
 


So far, Bollywood celebs such as Anushka Sharma, Arjun Kapoor, Dia Mirza, Alia Bhatt, Patralekhaa, Tisca Chopra and few more expressed their concerns and urged people to save the forest.  With trending hashtags, few more celebs have also joined the league. Joining the bandwagon are Akshay Kumar, Bipasha Basu, Richa Chadha and designer Anita Dongre.
 
Akshay Kumar tweeted, “Been seeing heart-breaking & alarming pictures of the Amazon rainforest which has been on fire since more than 2 weeks!It is responsible for 20% of the world’s oxygen.This affects each one of us...the earth may survive climate change but we won’t. #SaveTheAmazon #PrayForTheAmazon”


 Richa Chadha’s Insta post reads as:  


Designer Anita Dongre sharing the image wrote on her Instagram handle, “THE LUNGS OF THE EARTH ARE ON FIRE!”Followed by a long message.


Bipasha Basu captioned the image as, “Terrifying to think that the Amazon is the largest rain forest on the planet, creating 20% of the earth’s oxygen, basically the lungs of the world, has been on fire and burning for the last 16 days running, with literally NO media coverage whatsoever! Why? #amazonfire #prayforamazonas ”




Image Source: Instagram/RichaChadha/BipashaBasu/APH Images/AkshayKumar

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