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Nuestras Aguas; Nuestra Vida (Our Waters; Our Life)
Along Costa Rica’s once remote south Pacific coast, a crisis looms. The access to Potable water, one of the most basic of human rights, is in jeopardy. Unplanned development has parceled coastal mountains and rainforest, unleashing a cycle of erosion and pollution that gravely threatens the Parque Nacional Marino Ballena, Latin America’s first marine park, and the region’s sustainable tourism-based economy.
In this film, learn about one small community’s inspiring struggle to organize and fight to defend its access to clean, dependable drinking water. CAVU takes you high above, exposing the damage from the air, then back to land and sea, giving voice to local citiizens, scientists and activists.
Immediately after production, this film was screened in the community hall amidst a crowd of more than three hundred residents. The reaction was overwhelmingly positive, and marked the first step in an educational outreach campaign by The Nature Conservancy and CAVU to promote sustainable development in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula.
Along Costa Rica’s once remote south Pacific coast, a crisis looms. The access to Potable water, one of the most basic of human rights, is in jeopardy. Unplanned development has parceled coastal mountains and rainforest, unleashing a cycle of erosion and pollution that gravely threatens the Parque Nacional Marino Ballena, Latin America’s first marine park, and the region’s sustainable tourism-based economy.
In this film, learn about one small community’s inspiring struggle to organize and fight to defend its access to clean, dependable drinking water. CAVU takes you high above, exposing the damage from the air, then back to land and sea, giving voice to local citiizens, scientists and activists.
Immediately after production, this film was screened in the community hall amidst a crowd of more than three hundred residents. The reaction was overwhelmingly positive, and marked the first step in an educational outreach campaign by The Nature Conservancy and CAVU to promote sustainable development in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula.
Cockscomb: Jaguar Proud
Cockscmb: Jaguar Proud is educational outreach campaign in the buffer communities of the Cockscomb Basin in Belize about the greater significance of the Cockscomb Basin Jaguar Preserve, its historical significance, current research in the area, importance of the jaguar as an indicator species and possible ways to mitigate threats to them and their habitat. The project focuses on local community empowerment of the jaguar’s habitat and their ability to positively benefit from the Preserve and the peripheral economic resources jaguar conservation provides.
Cockscmb: Jaguar Proud is educational outreach campaign in the buffer communities of the Cockscomb Basin in Belize about the greater significance of the Cockscomb Basin Jaguar Preserve, its historical significance, current research in the area, importance of the jaguar as an indicator species and possible ways to mitigate threats to them and their habitat. The project focuses on local community empowerment of the jaguar’s habitat and their ability to positively benefit from the Preserve and the peripheral economic resources jaguar conservation provides.
Agua...Más que un Tubo (Water - More Than Just A Tube)
This project was created in association with the Nectandra Institute (www.nectandra.org) and the Communities of Rio La Balsa.
Agua…Más Que Un Tubo is an educational tool for Nectandra and the Community leaders to continue educating students and community members about the importance and of preserving the watershed and the ways that the community to work together to create sustainable land uses that support a healthy water supply.
Voces del Darien
Darién… Green gold…A lung of our planet Earth.
A land rich beyond measure in biological diversity.
Darién… Green gold…A lung of our planet Earth.
A land rich beyond measure in biological diversity.
Agua Salvadora
As is the case in many Latin American countries, significant segments of El Salvador's population live without reliable access to potable water.
As is the case in many Latin American countries, significant segments of El Salvador's population live without reliable access to potable water.
Perspectivas Sobre Coiba
This collection of three films highlights the beauty and biological importance of Coiba Island and the neighboring coastal communities along the Western Pacific coast of Panama.
This collection of three films highlights the beauty and biological importance of Coiba Island and the neighboring coastal communities along the Western Pacific coast of Panama.
La Comunidad
The second film, "La Comunidad", was shot in Tortuguero, on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast. Presented in partnership with the Caribbean Conservation Corporation ICC0, Costa Rica Ministry of Environment ...
The second film, "La Comunidad", was shot in Tortuguero, on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast. Presented in partnership with the Caribbean Conservation Corporation ICC0, Costa Rica Ministry of Environment ...
Senderos del Cambio
"The Paths of Change" was shot on the Southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica in Bahla Ballena, Punta Uvita. The film tells the story of a community in transition, faced with critical decisions on planni...
"The Paths of Change" was shot on the Southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica in Bahla Ballena, Punta Uvita. The film tells the story of a community in transition, faced with critical decisions on planni...