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LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Hollywood A-lister Leonardo DiCaprio has teamed up with online streaming service Netflix for a documentary about endangered mountain gorillas in east Africa, film-makers said on Friday.
The Titanic star is an executive producer on Virunga, described as "part investigative journalism and part nature documentary" and directed by Orlando von Einsiedel.
The documentary follows an embattled team of park rangers in the Democratic Republic of Congo "as they are caught in the crossfire of poachers, militia and industry in Africa's oldest national park", Netflix said in a statement.
Eastern Congo's protected Virunga sanctuary is home to about a quarter of the world's critically endangered mountain gorillas.
