Please join us in the Nicolás Guillén Room to celebrate the biodiversity and culture of Ecuador with our launch of the much-anticipated Common Trees of Yasuní. Our guest speakers include Ryan Killackey, director of the multi-award winning film Yasuní Man, screening at the DC Environmental Film Festival March 19 & 24.
Finding Species was founded on the photographic body of work documenting the countless species in Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park and Biosphere Reserve for the Common Trees of Yasuni book. The book is available in Spanish and English as a hardbound book in an institutional collaboration with Finding Species, PUCE, and the Natural History Museum of London. The eBook production was facilitated by Finding Species. The Common Trees of Yasuni classifies trees simply by leaf structure providing an easy to use, field guide for a complex environment while also exhibiting the beauty of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Yasuni Biosphere Reserve is located in the Ecuadorian Amazon and is known as the most biodiverse place on Earth. More trees grow in a single hectare (2.47 acres) of upland rainforest in Yasuní —655 species—than in the continental US and Canada combined. In 25 hectares, the number of tree species rises to 1,100. "In just one hectare in Yasuní, there are more tree, shrub, and liana (woody vines) species than anywhere else in the world," explains lead botanist, Gorky Villa, of Finding Species. Botanists, photographers, and Huaorani collaborated to find, identify, photograph, press, and document this first volume of trees. The result is a rich blend of knowledge of two worlds of Western science and the indigenous Huaorani. Finding Species is in search of funds to produce the book in the Huaorani language and future volumes as there are countless species to describe and discover.
Proceeds of The Common Trees of Yasuni book will be donated to Finding Species.
The Common Trees of Yasuní is available in English, Spanish, and eBook format via AmazonSmile.com, http://amzn.to/2n56fXo
