Carl Ross. Save America’s Forests. USA

“Yasuní Green Gold marvelously illustrates the major components of the overall drama playing out in Yasuni, from the extraordinary and unique indigenous peoples and biodiversity of the region, to the threats posed by oil activities, and an overview of the resistance movements fighting to stop the destruction of the environment and the loss of human rights. The first decades of initial missionary contact with the Waorani and by oil development in Yasuní led to devastating pollution and deforestation, and the shattering of the indigenous people's cultures. In recent years, Save America's Forests helped lead an international coalition of environmental advocates, scientists, and indigenous peoples in a successful campaign that stopped the Brazilian national oil giant, Petrobras, from constructing an oil road and facilities in the heart of Yasuní National Park. We also participated in the process of delimiting a large portion of Yasuní National Park and adjacent Waorani Reserve that are now off-limits to all extractive development. Yasuní Green Gold will not

only help bring the world's attention to this ecological jewel, but will serve as an educational tool and catalyst for worldwide efforts to save this region and its cultural and biological heritage”.

Carl Ross and Matt Finer.

Save America’s Forests. USA.