Hollywood superstar Harrison Ford has joined the environmental organisation 'Riverkeepers' to help put an end to the polluting of the Hudson River, which runs close to his $3 million home in New York state. The 59-year-old Star Wars actor will patrol the river in his helicopter, which has been newly equipped with hi-tech cameras, looking to catch offenders in the act. Next month he is to be officially named as the group´s first “airborne watchdog.”
In July last year Harrison, who also has a ranch in Wyoming, used his flying skills to rescue a 13-year-old Boy Scout lost in America´s Yellowstone National Park, after being called upon by local emergency services. The previous summer, again in his helicopter, the actor came to the aid of Sarah George, a hiker who was unable to get back down Wyoming´s Table Mountain after being overcome by altitude sickness.
Harrison, who made his name as the daredevil, bullwhip-wielding archaelogist Indiana Jones, is a committed ecologist and is on the board of several different environmental organizations, such as Conservation International (CI), which has secured the protection of over 100 million acres on three continents in the past three months. The Air Force One and The Fugitive star also donated 389 acres of his 800 acre ranch in Wyoming to the Jackson Hole Land Trust.
On May 4 the quintessential Hollywood actor, who has recently been romantically linked with Ally Mcbeal star Calista Flockhart, whom he met at January´s Golden Globe ceremony, stands to receive the World Ecology Award from the International Centre for Tropical Ecology, on behalf of his conservation efforts over the years.
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