I Am Yasuni
I Am Yasuni is a global campaign to spread social awareness of Ecuador’s Yasuni-ITT Initiative in order to indefinitely preserve approximately 180,000 hectares of virgin rainforest that is comprised within the unexploited Ishpingo, Tambococha, and Tiputini (ITT) oil fields, in Yasuní National Park. In order to achieve this it aims to secure donations for the UN-administered Yasuni ITT Fund.
Getting to spend time with people from Yasuni National Park was one of the most rewarding aspects of our team’s trip to shoot the I Am Yasuni documentary.
Here is British environmentalist Dusty Gedge and Yasuni-ITT Goodwill Ambassador Eglantina Zingg teaching children from the Añangu community how to juggle!
Stay tuned for updates!
The soon-to-be released I Am Yasuni documentary tells the story of the people who call Yasuni National Park home. While living in a rainforest is very different, their lives often parallel ours.
For them, education is important too! Watch this behind-the-scenes clip of children learning English!
Stay tuned for release dates and locations!
Excited for the I Am Yasuni documentary? Then don’t miss the soon-to-be released I Am Yasuni book which features the amazing photography taken during our team’s trip to Yasuni National Park. From incredible landscapes to the Waorani people, the book reveals what is at the heart of this Ecuadorian rainforest. Stay tuned to learn where you can buy it!
We are thrilled to announce that the I Am Yasuni documentary has been completed, and is beginning to cause some buzz around upcoming film festivals! Stay tuned for the release date, and where you can watch our team’s trip to Yasuni National Park.
Here’s a behind-the-scenes sneak peak of Director Nicolas Entel learning about the importance of a primary forest deep in the Amazonian rainforest.
Yasuni is terra incognita, one of the beastliest, lushest, most fecund, abundant but unknown places on earth. (via Can oil save the rainforest? | Environment | The Observer)
Sign to protect Yasuni National Park
Sign and support the petition on Change.org to protect Yasuni National Park, started by Anna Appleby from United Kingdom.
We appreciate her for taking action to support this initiative!
A new species of primate, a “big-eyed” and venomous slow loris, has been identified in Borneo by researchers.
But the new loris is already under threat from the Asian pet trade in part because its “teddy-bear face” make it attractive for illegal poaching, the team of UK and US scientists said.
(via Newly discovered slow loris species already threatened | Environment | guardian.co.uk)
Florian Neuhof, Energy Reporter for United Arab Emirates’ The National, interviews Secretary of State Ivonne Baki about the Yasuni-ITT Initiative. We can’t wait to see the article!
A plea from the indigenous people of Yasuni.
