[Applause]
after all these years I think that
I am totally convinced that the
people who made and put this
love so great for nature has
been my family, definitely me
I remember that since we were little
my parents took my sister and me
dog and the cat in the car on the bus in
wherever and we went out of Quito
any place with being out of the
city in the countryside with nature that
It was what made us feel super good
maybe this was also one of the
things that he did that later in the
university and start studying
biology and it’s interesting because at
throughout the day the Ecuadorians
they tell us clear Ecuador is the most
diverse the most incredible with so many
ecosystems but it’s really when
you start to travel what you give
mind that if it really is like that it’s a lot
more than what he says then I’m going to
give for the next few minutes a small
introduction through my lens
photo camera of how I started
Discover Ecuador and its wonders
and how the beginning of the
all these projects that now
we handle then first exit of
field in the university 18 years in
biology the amazon
national yasuní literally the place
more biodiverse of the earth house of
many species of animals
example the giant otter this animal
can measure up to 2 meters
long is the largest in the world and it eats
Up to 7 pounds of fish per day is for
that which is one of the indicators of
water quality in the Amazon but
Well, not all of them are predators down there
but we also have some super animals
interesting and maybe super tender
as you all know as the
three – toed sloths in this case a
Complete symbol of the Amazon though
really the true diversity of
country is hidden in small ways
amphibians reptiles insects these groups
that are little studied or known by
all of us but good after
climb of the Amazon we have our
incredible andy is that you know is
the longest mountain range in the world
that crosses all of South America in these
the Quito and Ecuadorian platforms
we have learned to live with volcanoes
and we have realized that always
they are not always seen has been beautiful
as in the photo I feel many times
they are in the process of erupting which
He has us all
the population attentive in motion and
give us to be super flexible to all
the changes in this ecosystem in this
gigantic chain of mountains we have
some animals that have also
adapted to this area for example I do not know
if you know this bird is the
hummingbird spike sword and is the only bird in
the planet that its peak is bigger than
your body and why is this because it
Feeds specifically on a flower that
we know here as floripondio
which is the same shape as its peak and only
he can be pollinated and
feed from here but going back to
small world and really
where I think that is all that great
diversity have you ever seen
a frog yes imagine we have like 10
of these in the equator are like this
size and each has its own design
Of nails
ok you tell me you do not like the
orange maybe we can find them
blank or if they do not like it in
white maybe in yellow these forms
then the Andes’ generates that you
species can each of them
adapt to these places and create
hundreds of species for him is one of the
reasons in the wealth of our
diversity but good on the other side of
the Andes in the northern part of our
green province of emeralds
we found the choco tropical forest
which is very similar to the Amazon but
another side of the Andes is a forest
rainy in the same way and we have
some species in the area that so
less I assume that you know her by
example the spectacled bear
the Andean bear the only bear we have
in South America and how sadly every
is increasingly threatened by the
deforestation but coming back to the world
macro we have the glass frogs by
example I assume that you have heard are
these little frogs that have all
the transparent ventral part then
you in mind
approach you can see the heart
beating all your bowels and let’s say
that in this picture is particularly a
female and the green points that you
come they are your eggs then it is something
spectacular that would be once they see
they can not really believe als to the south
of the choco we have our dry forest
that the majority is covered by these
beautiful trees that fascinate me
they call forests I call them the barbarians
Ecuadorians are giants with the trunk
huge but as it is a dry forest almost
all year they lose their leaves and make
photosynthesis by the stem then to
front how is the dry forest we have
the peaceful ocean where every year
just this time of June to
September we have some giants
visitors that come to us from the
antarctica mainly for
breed looking for warmer waters
less deep and to give birth to their
small as are the humpback whales
so if they have a chance go to port
Lopez is the best place but Ecuador
continental is not just just what
we have here on the continent but at
front we have the famous islands
Galapagos
all of us know and the islands
Galapagos have a volcanic origin or
be these photos of the eruption of 2015
of the wolf volcano in the northern part of
isabela but without going very far
last weeks we have had activity
volcanic in two of the different
volcanoes which also to these islands
completely separated the continent
they have a different adaptation
species that live in this area this is
the only cormorant in the world that does not
can fly completely lost the
flight capacity due to lack of
predators and because it feeds 100% of
the fish then an amazing swimmer
I try that you are very funny to see them
out after fishing because no
they have their poor wings these fit
it says in the sun and it looks very funny
we have another super species
important that giant tortoises are
Galapagos together with Seychelles are the
only places on the planet where
they have these giants pitifully
300 years ago they came almost to the
extinction thanks to all the pirates
they are navigators who passed by in
that then there were no refrigerators
then I had to catch fresh meat
these animals on board could be
up to 6 months without eating or drinking water
luck are now protected by the
national park
of the environment but throughout this trip
during the last years I realized
that pitifully equator is not only
leader in this diversity but also
we occupy the first place in the
categories of threats and what it is that
threatens our diversity
different things deforestation by
Ecuador example that is so small
together with colombia and brazil we lead the
deforestation rates of deforestation
is in South America every year we lose
200,000 hectares of primary forest
which some scientists estimate that
for 2030 2050 we will not have more
primary digital coverage then it is
something super depressing really another
thing is monocultures for example the
African palm is a problem that does not
only this equator but all the forests
tropical in the world and it’s basically
to produce different textiles
makeup or food that we
we can begin to be part of
this solution the treatment of doing
purchases checking that the products do not
contain palm oil another great
problem is the illegal wildlife trade
take out wild animals to have them
in the pet house that normally
after
and die by feeding them only rice
or bread then it really is not something that
extractive activities are not justified
both in the Amazon we have the
oil activity and in the southern part
from ecuador the mining exploitation
open sky mainly exceeding
its super-big impact for the country and
something that we are also
involved in day to day for example
is the just pollution the 2018 is the
World Year of the struggle for
plastic reduction which is something
that we can start
contribute directly from today the
climate change that is more or less something
which results in a set of all
the details that I told you earlier that
I told you before but basically
places like ecuador that we do not have
all the seasons makes our
see our dry times be longer
our rains are stronger and
produce droughts and different problems
to the animals these photos on the island
puná in the drought of 2011 one of the
stronger than had this area
dry all the lakes made all
the animals basically die from the
zone then with all this contrast of
incredible diversity and also all the
threats me today next to a sea
a group of colleagues decided to dedicate ourselves
to the study and conservation of
biodiversity for the rest of our
lives then what we want to do
we are a great team and fondant
We found tropical garden in this
hairpin initiative means look
amphibians and reptiles in the field that is
our favorite group in which we
like to investigate and what we do is
like all research team
write books scientific articles
field guides do expeditions
scientists to look for new species
but we really wanted to be a little
further on we realized after studying
biology that there is usually a
very large disconnect between science
per se and the world in general science
red normally data that are difficult
to assimilate for most people
who have no training in science and
We decided to use the photo
the video and different tools
graphics because human beings are
people we are not totally beings
graphics then a picture a video
can reach to touch me and one another
way invite me to act then
the photograph combined with the
ecotourism
that our projects can reach the
more people not only in
Ecuador but in the world and at the same time this
gives us a money to be able to finance
ourselves our own
projects all the projects that
had previously commented then
this time I’m going to give you a little
example of two projects in which
we have collaborated one of them was in the
mangroves of the coast for example another
of the important ecosystems here is
super diverse and there are also people who
with scarce resources living in this
zone then a very easy way and
quick to obtain resources is to cut
all the mangrove on a shrimp farm and
gives you a quick income let’s say but what
happens that this area is also super high
in tsunamis then what happens is that
When a tsunami comes there are no mangroves
which is a natural barrier and basically
it takes the whole population then in
a joint effort and collaboration
with international conservation what
we did is to work with a community
of guayas called June 6 that
they learned to live from the mangrove using
your mangrove products in this case
the crabs we went one day with
them all
since they get up until they
they sleep on their work day
spectacular vélez to the people getting
completely in the mud to get the
crabs were returning was a feast that
everyone washing their bunnies and ready
to take them to sell and women
it was also something these months this was
a part of the ones that I liked the most because
In addition to preparing the dishes more
exquisite crab in the whole part
of guayas what they do is train
different restaurants so that
promote the sustainable consumption of
crabs but they also lead the the
mangrove reforestation programs and
finally they also know the
species that are in the area so that
because you can make ecotourism
national and international level with birds
of which the mangroves live and then
Of course, when everything starts to work
together the local governments
they also get involved and they do that from
children the new generations are given
account of the importance of this
ecosystem then clear as in everything
study has to be published
we started to take out different items
that are now being used as models to
level
where you are working with mangrove
so that people instead of exploiting
this ecosystem is dedicated to trying
live with them in a more
sustainable not only for nature
but also for people who are
the direct actors of nature and
the second project that I have is in the
choco for now this ecosystem that
said the Ecuadorian choco that together with
Madagascar are the most important ecosystems
threatened the world talking about forests
tropical is is a thing really
depressing because less than 5% of the
original coverage of choco is gone
completely
then that means it’s an area
so diverse with so many plants
amphibians reptiles birds
then what we started
to do is to attack in different forts
first in education
next to my team
we usually publish different books
or didactic material that is free in
our website but we also try
to reach local governments so that
go the schools and that you can
can train the people who live in
the literal area different items that
are published nationally or
international to raise awareness
about the area to protect we are
working on a coffee book
table book that is going to be in English
and in Spanish it’s going to be distributed
here at the national level and also in the
foreign to lift more
expectations about the area and also
we create a joint ngo to a foundation
Ecuadorian called the foundation
jocotoco and a design company in
USA
with our partner James Moody and we created
this initiative create choco’s safe that
what it does is just try to
raise funds and work in general to
international level to protect this
ecosystem one of the super examples
specific is that sometimes we
We organize different auctions for
example this was in new york the year
passed then many artists
all graphic painters different artists
donated their works we sold the works and
we raised almost 12 thousand dollars that
they went to the project to invest in
new in buying new land in
Protected areas of Choco and an example
that is super cool in a
research led by my partner
Alejandro Arteaga like the one we created
tropical harvey we describe up to 59
snake species found in the
Ecuador but what we did instead of
name it as it usually is
does research
We decided to auction the name for this
auction we did it in new york ‘and
then normal people like a
event like this the people wanted their
names are the snake because the
name remains literal forever and of
this event we managed to raise 65 65 thousand
dollars that served us
to buy 72 hectares of forest
completely primary forest or whether
he had no protection and finance
more field trips to find
new species like this then it is
a way to try to make a
citizen awareness make the
science be
involved with people and that people
empower yourself and take action
that is also important to inform the
people with talks here at a level
national and international or to put all
our biodiversity to the access of the
people then this for example was a
arrangement that we made together with the
municipality of quito in the boulevard of the
united nations and it was super cool to see
people how it interacts with the
images tried to read and say hey
Where is this where you live and is the only
way that people when they know can
protect something and I believe that from now
it’s time to start putting the
little seed for the future that really
it’s the new generations and what
It deals with what we did last year together
to my partner karim ait nerd that is from usa
and was officially formed as the
editor of national geographic kids week
that we created an initiative called
keep conservation photography workshop
which is to bring minors of all the
world
involve them in these problems
We do different workshops in countries
diverse as ecuador namibia madagascar
etcetera and what
It is to bring these minors with
team of scientists so that
document the work they do
every day to protect our
university but not only with scientists
but also with indigenous communities
because it’s usually an interaction of
education science then it’s a
way to also take a step for
new generations then really
science has to be 100% boring or
unattainable for people not
totally the opposite rather the
people have to be activists of
this science and the best way to do
that people know what they have in their
country from my point of view is using
the graphic means to get to the
many more people
thanks to my team and to all of you
by the attention
[Applause]
after all these years I think that
I am totally convinced that the
people who made and put this
love so great for nature has
been my family, definitely me
I remember that since we were little
my parents took my sister and me
dog and the cat in the car on the bus in
wherever and we went out of Quito
any place with being out of the
city in the countryside with nature that
It was what made us feel super good
maybe this was also one of the
things that he did that later in the
university and start studying
biology and it’s interesting because at
throughout the day the Ecuadorians
they tell us clear Ecuador is the most
diverse the most incredible with so many
ecosystems but it’s really when
you start to travel what you give
mind that if it really is like that it’s a lot
more than what he says then I’m going to
give for the next few minutes a small
introduction through my lens
photo camera of how I started
Discover Ecuador and its wonders
and how the beginning of the
all these projects that now
we handle then first exit of
field in the university 18 years in
biology the amazon
national yasuní literally the place
more biodiverse of the earth house of
many species of animals
example the giant otter this animal
can measure up to 2 meters
long is the largest in the world and it eats
Up to 7 pounds of fish per day is for
that which is one of the indicators of
water quality in the Amazon but
Well, not all of them are predators down there
but we also have some super animals
interesting and maybe super tender
as you all know as the
three – toed sloths in this case a
Complete symbol of the Amazon though
really the true diversity of
country is hidden in small ways
amphibians reptiles insects these groups
that are little studied or known by
all of us but good after
climb of the Amazon we have our
incredible andy is that you know is
the longest mountain range in the world
that crosses all of South America in these
the Quito and Ecuadorian platforms
we have learned to live with volcanoes
and we have realized that always
they are not always seen has been beautiful
as in the photo I feel many times
they are in the process of erupting which
He has us all
the population attentive in motion and
give us to be super flexible to all
the changes in this ecosystem in this
gigantic chain of mountains we have
some animals that have also
adapted to this area for example I do not know
if you know this bird is the
hummingbird spike sword and is the only bird in
the planet that its peak is bigger than
your body and why is this because it
Feeds specifically on a flower that
we know here as floripondio
which is the same shape as its peak and only
he can be pollinated and
feed from here but going back to
small world and really
where I think that is all that great
diversity have you ever seen
a frog yes imagine we have like 10
of these in the equator are like this
size and each has its own design
Of nails
ok you tell me you do not like the
orange maybe we can find them
blank or if they do not like it in
white maybe in yellow these forms
then the Andes’ generates that you
species can each of them
adapt to these places and create
hundreds of species for him is one of the
reasons in the wealth of our
diversity but good on the other side of
the Andes in the northern part of our
green province of emeralds
we found the choco tropical forest
which is very similar to the Amazon but
another side of the Andes is a forest
rainy in the same way and we have
some species in the area that so
less I assume that you know her by
example the spectacled bear
the Andean bear the only bear we have
in South America and how sadly every
is increasingly threatened by the
deforestation but coming back to the world
macro we have the glass frogs by
example I assume that you have heard are
these little frogs that have all
the transparent ventral part then
you in mind
approach you can see the heart
beating all your bowels and let’s say
that in this picture is particularly a
female and the green points that you
come they are your eggs then it is something
spectacular that would be once they see
they can not really believe als to the south
of the choco we have our dry forest
that the majority is covered by these
beautiful trees that fascinate me
they call forests I call them the barbarians
Ecuadorians are giants with the trunk
huge but as it is a dry forest almost
all year they lose their leaves and make
photosynthesis by the stem then to
front how is the dry forest we have
the peaceful ocean where every year
just this time of June to
September we have some giants
visitors that come to us from the
antarctica mainly for
breed looking for warmer waters
less deep and to give birth to their
small as are the humpback whales
so if they have a chance go to port
Lopez is the best place but Ecuador
continental is not just just what
we have here on the continent but at
front we have the famous islands
Galapagos
all of us know and the islands
Galapagos have a volcanic origin or
be these photos of the eruption of 2015
of the wolf volcano in the northern part of
isabela but without going very far
last weeks we have had activity
volcanic in two of the different
volcanoes which also to these islands
completely separated the continent
they have a different adaptation
species that live in this area this is
the only cormorant in the world that does not
can fly completely lost the
flight capacity due to lack of
predators and because it feeds 100% of
the fish then an amazing swimmer
I try that you are very funny to see them
out after fishing because no
they have their poor wings these fit
it says in the sun and it looks very funny
we have another super species
important that giant tortoises are
Galapagos together with Seychelles are the
only places on the planet where
they have these giants pitifully
300 years ago they came almost to the
extinction thanks to all the pirates
they are navigators who passed by in
that then there were no refrigerators
then I had to catch fresh meat
these animals on board could be
up to 6 months without eating or drinking water
luck are now protected by the
national park
of the environment but throughout this trip
during the last years I realized
that pitifully equator is not only
leader in this diversity but also
we occupy the first place in the
categories of threats and what it is that
threatens our diversity
different things deforestation by
Ecuador example that is so small
together with colombia and brazil we lead the
deforestation rates of deforestation
is in South America every year we lose
200,000 hectares of primary forest
which some scientists estimate that
for 2030 2050 we will not have more
primary digital coverage then it is
something super depressing really another
thing is monocultures for example the
African palm is a problem that does not
only this equator but all the forests
tropical in the world and it’s basically
to produce different textiles
makeup or food that we
we can begin to be part of
this solution the treatment of doing
purchases checking that the products do not
contain palm oil another great
problem is the illegal wildlife trade
take out wild animals to have them
in the pet house that normally
after
and die by feeding them only rice
or bread then it really is not something that
extractive activities are not justified
both in the Amazon we have the
oil activity and in the southern part
from ecuador the mining exploitation
open sky mainly exceeding
its super-big impact for the country and
something that we are also
involved in day to day for example
is the just pollution the 2018 is the
World Year of the struggle for
plastic reduction which is something
that we can start
contribute directly from today the
climate change that is more or less something
which results in a set of all
the details that I told you earlier that
I told you before but basically
places like ecuador that we do not have
all the seasons makes our
see our dry times be longer
our rains are stronger and
produce droughts and different problems
to the animals these photos on the island
puná in the drought of 2011 one of the
stronger than had this area
dry all the lakes made all
the animals basically die from the
zone then with all this contrast of
incredible diversity and also all the
threats me today next to a sea
a group of colleagues decided to dedicate ourselves
to the study and conservation of
biodiversity for the rest of our
lives then what we want to do
we are a great team and fondant
We found tropical garden in this
hairpin initiative means look
amphibians and reptiles in the field that is
our favorite group in which we
like to investigate and what we do is
like all research team
write books scientific articles
field guides do expeditions
scientists to look for new species
but we really wanted to be a little
further on we realized after studying
biology that there is usually a
very large disconnect between science
per se and the world in general science
red normally data that are difficult
to assimilate for most people
who have no training in science and
We decided to use the photo
the video and different tools
graphics because human beings are
people we are not totally beings
graphics then a picture a video
can reach to touch me and one another
way invite me to act then
the photograph combined with the
ecotourism
that our projects can reach the
more people not only in
Ecuador but in the world and at the same time this
gives us a money to be able to finance
ourselves our own
projects all the projects that
had previously commented then
this time I’m going to give you a little
example of two projects in which
we have collaborated one of them was in the
mangroves of the coast for example another
of the important ecosystems here is
super diverse and there are also people who
with scarce resources living in this
zone then a very easy way and
quick to obtain resources is to cut
all the mangrove on a shrimp farm and
gives you a quick income let’s say but what
happens that this area is also super high
in tsunamis then what happens is that
When a tsunami comes there are no mangroves
which is a natural barrier and basically
it takes the whole population then in
a joint effort and collaboration
with international conservation what
we did is to work with a community
of guayas called June 6 that
they learned to live from the mangrove using
your mangrove products in this case
the crabs we went one day with
them all
since they get up until they
they sleep on their work day
spectacular vélez to the people getting
completely in the mud to get the
crabs were returning was a feast that
everyone washing their bunnies and ready
to take them to sell and women
it was also something these months this was
a part of the ones that I liked the most because
In addition to preparing the dishes more
exquisite crab in the whole part
of guayas what they do is train
different restaurants so that
promote the sustainable consumption of
crabs but they also lead the the
mangrove reforestation programs and
finally they also know the
species that are in the area so that
because you can make ecotourism
national and international level with birds
of which the mangroves live and then
Of course, when everything starts to work
together the local governments
they also get involved and they do that from
children the new generations are given
account of the importance of this
ecosystem then clear as in everything
study has to be published
we started to take out different items
that are now being used as models to
level
where you are working with mangrove
so that people instead of exploiting
this ecosystem is dedicated to trying
live with them in a more
sustainable not only for nature
but also for people who are
the direct actors of nature and
the second project that I have is in the
choco for now this ecosystem that
said the Ecuadorian choco that together with
Madagascar are the most important ecosystems
threatened the world talking about forests
tropical is is a thing really
depressing because less than 5% of the
original coverage of choco is gone
completely
then that means it’s an area
so diverse with so many plants
amphibians reptiles birds
then what we started
to do is to attack in different forts
first in education
next to my team
we usually publish different books
or didactic material that is free in
our website but we also try
to reach local governments so that
go the schools and that you can
can train the people who live in
the literal area different items that
are published nationally or
international to raise awareness
about the area to protect we are
working on a coffee book
table book that is going to be in English
and in Spanish it’s going to be distributed
here at the national level and also in the
foreign to lift more
expectations about the area and also
we create a joint ngo to a foundation
Ecuadorian called the foundation
jocotoco and a design company in
USA
with our partner James Moody and we created
this initiative create choco’s safe that
what it does is just try to
raise funds and work in general to
international level to protect this
ecosystem one of the super examples
specific is that sometimes we
We organize different auctions for
example this was in new york the year
passed then many artists
all graphic painters different artists
donated their works we sold the works and
we raised almost 12 thousand dollars that
they went to the project to invest in
new in buying new land in
Protected areas of Choco and an example
that is super cool in a
research led by my partner
Alejandro Arteaga like the one we created
tropical harvey we describe up to 59
snake species found in the
Ecuador but what we did instead of
name it as it usually is
does research
We decided to auction the name for this
auction we did it in new york ‘and
then normal people like a
event like this the people wanted their
names are the snake because the
name remains literal forever and of
this event we managed to raise 65 65 thousand
dollars that served us
to buy 72 hectares of forest
completely primary forest or whether
he had no protection and finance
more field trips to find
new species like this then it is
a way to try to make a
citizen awareness make the
science be
involved with people and that people
empower yourself and take action
that is also important to inform the
people with talks here at a level
national and international or to put all
our biodiversity to the access of the
people then this for example was a
arrangement that we made together with the
municipality of quito in the boulevard of the
united nations and it was super cool to see
people how it interacts with the
images tried to read and say hey
Where is this where you live and is the only
way that people when they know can
protect something and I believe that from now
it’s time to start putting the
little seed for the future that really
it’s the new generations and what
It deals with what we did last year together
to my partner karim ait nerd that is from usa
and was officially formed as the
editor of national geographic kids week
that we created an initiative called
keep conservation photography workshop
which is to bring minors of all the
world
involve them in these problems
We do different workshops in countries
diverse as ecuador namibia madagascar
etcetera and what
It is to bring these minors with
team of scientists so that
document the work they do
every day to protect our
university but not only with scientists
but also with indigenous communities
because it’s usually an interaction of
education science then it’s a
way to also take a step for
new generations then really
science has to be 100% boring or
unattainable for people not
totally the opposite rather the
people have to be activists of
this science and the best way to do
that people know what they have in their
country from my point of view is using
the graphic means to get to the
many more people
thanks to my team and to all of you
by the attention
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