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
You 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
Andes and Ecuadorians
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
your
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 the first time they see
they can not really believe als to the south
of the Chaco we have our dry forest
that the majority is covered by these
beautiful trees that fascinate me
they call forests I call them the Bavarians
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 like this 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 want chance go to port
Lopez is the best place
but the continental equator is not only
just what we have here in the
continent but at the front we have the
famous galapagos islands
all of us know and the islands
Galapagos have a volcanic origin or
be these photos of the eruption of 2015
in 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
fish
then the cat is an amazing swimmer
that you are very funny to see them go out
after fishing because as no
they have their poor wings they are shitting
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 they wanted to shrink 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 and I try to do the
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 that is a
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
I said earlier but basically
places like ecuador that we do not have
all the seasons makes our
see our dry times be more
long our rains are stronger
and produce droughts and different
animal problems these pictures in
the island
one in the drought of 2011 one of the most
strong that this area has had that 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 and today next to a sea
group of colleagues decided to dedicate ourselves to
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 founded tropical harvey and it is this
initiative
Hairpin means looking for amphibians and
reptiles in the field that is our
favorite group in which we like
investigate and what we do is like everything
research team write books
scientific articles field guides
do scientific expeditions to
look for new species but really
We wanted to go a little bit further
we realized after studying biology that
there is usually a very disconnection
great between science per se and the
world in general red science
normally data that are difficult to
assimilate for most people
they do not have training in science and
We decided to use the photo
the video and different tools
graphics because human beings are
people are totally graphic beings
then a picture a video can arrive
to move me and in another way
invite me to act then the
photography combined with ecotourism
that our projects can reach the
most 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 with scarce resources that live in
this area then a very easy way
and quick to obtain resources is to cut
all the mangrove plant 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
all washing their carts and ready to
take them to sell and women too
it was something this was a part of those that
I liked it more because in addition to preparing
the most exquisite half plates of
crab in all the part of guayas what
what they do is train different
restaurants so that the
sustainable consumption of crabs but
they also lead the programs of
mangrove reforestation and finally
they also know the species that
they are in the area so you can
do ecotourism at the national level and
International bird of living
the mangroves and then clear already when
everything starts to work together
local governments are also involved
and they make children from
new generations realize the
importance of this ecosystem then
clear as in every study it has to be
published we started to take different
items that are now being used as
level models
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
you go to school and can be
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 book format confite and
bold 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 moore 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 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 these 59
snake species that we found
in the equator but what we did instead
to name it as it normally is
does research
We decided to auction the name for this
auction we made in new york ‘and
then normal people like a
event like this the people wanted their
name is in the serpent 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
protect from primary forest completely
or whether they had no protection and
fund more field trips to
find new species like this
then it is a way of trying to do
one as a citizen science
make science be
and involved with people and that the
people get empowered from this and take action
that’s why it’s also important to inform
the people with talks here at level
international national or to put all
our biodiversity to the access of the
people then this for example was a
exhibition that we did 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 the
that we did last year with my
socia 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 that is
bring minors from all over the world
involve them in these problems
We do different workshops in countries
diverse with Ecuador- Namibia Madagascar
etcetera and what
do you bring these minors with
a team of scientists so that
document the work they do
every day to protect our
diversity but not only with scientists
but also with indigenous communities
because it’s usually an interaction of
education science then it’s a
fashion also 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
more people
thank you very much to my team and to all
you for the attention
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
You 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
Andes and Ecuadorians
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
your
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 the first time they see
they can not really believe als to the south
of the Chaco we have our dry forest
that the majority is covered by these
beautiful trees that fascinate me
they call forests I call them the Bavarians
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 like this 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 want chance go to port
Lopez is the best place
but the continental equator is not only
just what we have here in the
continent but at the front we have the
famous galapagos islands
all of us know and the islands
Galapagos have a volcanic origin or
be these photos of the eruption of 2015
in 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
fish
then the cat is an amazing swimmer
that you are very funny to see them go out
after fishing because as no
they have their poor wings they are shitting
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 they wanted to shrink 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 and I try to do the
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 that is a
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
I said earlier but basically
places like ecuador that we do not have
all the seasons makes our
see our dry times be more
long our rains are stronger
and produce droughts and different
animal problems these pictures in
the island
one in the drought of 2011 one of the most
strong that this area has had that 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 and today next to a sea
group of colleagues decided to dedicate ourselves to
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 founded tropical harvey and it is this
initiative
Hairpin means looking for amphibians and
reptiles in the field that is our
favorite group in which we like
investigate and what we do is like everything
research team write books
scientific articles field guides
do scientific expeditions to
look for new species but really
We wanted to go a little bit further
we realized after studying biology that
there is usually a very disconnection
great between science per se and the
world in general red science
normally data that are difficult to
assimilate for most people
they do not have training in science and
We decided to use the photo
the video and different tools
graphics because human beings are
people are totally graphic beings
then a picture a video can arrive
to move me and in another way
invite me to act then the
photography combined with ecotourism
that our projects can reach the
most 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 with scarce resources that live in
this area then a very easy way
and quick to obtain resources is to cut
all the mangrove plant 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
all washing their carts and ready to
take them to sell and women too
it was something this was a part of those that
I liked it more because in addition to preparing
the most exquisite half plates of
crab in all the part of guayas what
what they do is train different
restaurants so that the
sustainable consumption of crabs but
they also lead the programs of
mangrove reforestation and finally
they also know the species that
they are in the area so you can
do ecotourism at the national level and
International bird of living
the mangroves and then clear already when
everything starts to work together
local governments are also involved
and they make children from
new generations realize the
importance of this ecosystem then
clear as in every study it has to be
published we started to take different
items that are now being used as
level models
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
you go to school and can be
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 book format confite and
bold 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 moore 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 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 these 59
snake species that we found
in the equator but what we did instead
to name it as it normally is
does research
We decided to auction the name for this
auction we made in new york ‘and
then normal people like a
event like this the people wanted their
name is in the serpent 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
protect from primary forest completely
or whether they had no protection and
fund more field trips to
find new species like this
then it is a way of trying to do
one as a citizen science
make science be
and involved with people and that the
people get empowered from this and take action
that’s why it’s also important to inform
the people with talks here at level
international national or to put all
our biodiversity to the access of the
people then this for example was a
exhibition that we did 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 the
that we did last year with my
socia 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 that is
bring minors from all over the world
involve them in these problems
We do different workshops in countries
diverse with Ecuador- Namibia Madagascar
etcetera and what
do you bring these minors with
a team of scientists so that
document the work they do
every day to protect our
diversity but not only with scientists
but also with indigenous communities
because it’s usually an interaction of
education science then it’s a
fashion also 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
more people
thank you very much to my team and to all
you for the attention
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