The New Internationalist , together with the Yasuní Green Gold Campaign and Movimiento Idun will publish a photo book in September about the Yasuní rainforest. 

The New Internationalist has also dedicated their July issue to Yasuní national park.

Yasuní Green Gold contains a simple message in photographs from the people of the region - leave the oil in the ground and protect the Yasuní rainforest forever.

In the heart of the Amazon basin lies the Yasuni UNESCO reserve, one of the most biologically diverse forests on the planet. It is home to the Waorani and some of the last indigenous peoples still living in isolation in the Amazon. But the land lies on top of Ecuador’s largest undeveloped oil reserves. 

The government of President Correa has proposed a solution: Ecuador will not allow the extraction of the oil in the Yasuní if the world community can create a compensation fund to leave the oil in the ground, and fund Ecuador’s sustainable development into the future.

These photographs document and celebrate the Yasuní’s unique beauty and diversity, the indigenous groups living there and its flora, fauna. The Yasuni Green Gold campaign calls for the region to be closed to oil exploration, for the rights of local people to be respected and the unique ecology of Yasuni to be protected.

‘After readers pick up this wonderful book, set their eyes on its glorious photographs and learn more about the Yasuní – its majesty and its troubles – I am certain they will be inspired to do all that is possible to save this most precious resource.’
Dr Jane Goodall, DBE, primatologist

‘The Yasuní Green Gold campaign will show the world what irreplaceable treasures of diversity Yasuní rainforests truly are.’
Dr Terry L Erwin, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA