Having Don Cheadle and Ian Somerhalder on the same bill for anything is great news. Having both dashing, good looking men fighting for the environment is even better.

Cheadle and Somerhalder are spokesmen for the newly formed Alliance for Global Conservation: a joint effort between PEW Charitable Trusts, Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy, Wildlife Conservation Society and World Wildlife Fund. The Alliance mission is “dedicated to protecting life on earth” and “working to encourage the United States to take a leadership role in forging this global strategy before it’s too late.”

Somerhalder says: “I signed on to do a huge project, me and Don Cheadle as a spokesperson, and it’s quite arguably, in all humility, one of the most important philanthropic environmental projects ever undertaken,” Somerhalder tells Zap2it. “I’m so honored to have been included.”

Somerhalder is passionate about the environment and spent much of his time in the Gulf Coast this summer working with groups and animal shelters to help clean up after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The Louisiana native kept fans aware of his efforts through twitter and shared much of his outrage over the situation with the internet community.

Somerhalder has finished a PSA (public service announcement) for the organization and says his hiatus from his hit TV show The Vampire Diaries will be less Hollywood and more philanthropic:

“I’m going to Central America after we wrap. We’re going to take note of the scope of what needs to be done, and then I’m going to fly back to Washington and testify in a congressional hearing as to what’s going on,” he explains.

The actor is so committed to making a change, he recently launched his own organization: The IS Foundation which helped raise $93,000 to go The St. Tammany Humane Society in Louisiana.

Looking forward to both of their efforts for the Alliance.

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