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Thursday, April 11, 2013

FEATURE: YOUNG CREATIVE MINDS RAISE AWARENESS OF CRITICAL FOREST-RELATED ISSUES

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FEATURE: YOUNG CREATIVE MINDS RAISE AWARENESS OF CRITICAL FOREST-RELATED ISSUES
New York, Apr 11 2013 2:00PM
They are gifted storytellers who are using stunning visual imagery
and powerful narratives to raise awareness of the challenges
affecting forests and those who dwell within them, as well as to spur
action to protect this vital resource. They are international award
winners. And, they are all under the age of 30.

Elio Alonso Vasquez is just one month shy of finishing high school.
The 19-year-old grew up in one of Latin American's most vibrant
cities, Arequipa, Peru, which is inscribed on the World Heritage List
of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Currently a student in Norway, Alonso is one of the youngest
recipients of awards handed out this week in Istanbul during the tenth
session of the UN Forum on Forests (UNFF10). His film, entitled "Feel
Like a Mountain," tells the story of how he came to appreciate the
qualities of the forests, and in particular how important they are to
the indigenous peoples in Peru.

"The aim of this film was to encourage young people back home to
think about this issue, to react and to do something," said Alonso,
who admitted to never even liking documentaries before making the
film. "I hated documentaries. I thought they were really, really
boring," he told the UN News Centre.

It wasn't until he moved to Norway that Alonso – who went from
living in a city of nine million to a small village of several
hundred – visited a forest for the first time. It was from there that
he drew his inspiration.

"After being near the forest, I looked back and thought about all
the years that I lived in Peru and I didn't care about the forest,"
he said. "And I see that there's a lot of indigenous people that are
not protected and a lot of young people that just don't care."

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The film recalls a June 2009 incident during which a protest by
indigenous people in the Bagua area of the Amazon against the
exploitation of natural resources on their traditional lands was
broken up by police and ended in the deaths of 33 people.

While indigenous peoples face many problems, Alonso believes that
inequality is one of the main challenges. "We don't think that
indigenous people are part of the nation. We don't want to believe
that they are part of the group, that they have the same rights…
people don't feel connected to each other."

He wants to use his film to reach people, especially young people,
and to get them to think about nature, and about forests in
particular.

"This, for me, is just the starting point. I know that this award
will give me a big platform to address my generation back in Peru,"
he said. "That's what I really want. That's what I had in mind when I
made the film."

But reaching young people today is a challenge in itself, he
acknowledged. "We live in another generation. We're more focused on
Facebook. We're more focused on smart phones and gadgets and
technology.

"We haven't really been in touch with forests and nature," he added.
"I feel that if you're not familiar with something, you're not going
to be willing to protect it."

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Sébastien Pins, 22, has been fascinated by the mysteries of nature
from a very young age, thanks to the influence of his mother. A
native of Belgium, the university student has already received many
prizes throughout Europe. At the age of eight, he wrote and directed
his first theatre scene, and at 20, became a professional
pyrotechnician.

His award-winning and visually stunning film, "Ma Forêt" (My
Forest), depicts a toddler's foray into the forest and his utter
fascination at all that he finds there.

"My goal in making the film was to touch a lot of people by using
the symbol of the child to convince people of the importance of
forests," said Sébastien. "Many young people are not very concerned
with forests.

"If I can't convince them by speaking to them, then I will try by
making movies with strong messages," he stated, adding that cinema
can be a powerful way to influence people.

Engineering student Olga Lavrushko did not even own a digital
camera. But that did not stop the 21-year-old from Ukraine from
entering the Forum's first ever International Forest Photograph
Contest with a photo taken on an old film camera produced in the
former Soviet Union in the 1970s.

"I was really surprised when I got the congratulations letter
because I can't call myself a photographer," she said. An explorer at
heart, Olga shot her winning photo at a forest near her town, where
she likes to explore on her bike.

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Another winner of the photo contest, Prasetyo Nurramdhan of
Indonesia, is also 21. A self-taught photographer, he was first
attracted to photography in high school. He is currently studying
information technology, and also writes on teenage issues for an
Indonesian newspaper called <em>Compass</em>.

The UN Secretary-General has made working with youth one of his top
priorities, and earlier this year appointed the first ever Youth
Envoy to address the needs of the largest generation of youth the
world has ever known.

Youth are also among the nine "major groups" participating in the
Forum's session. Tolulope Daramola, of the International Forestry
Students' Association and coordinator of the youth major group,
stressed that young people are vital to addressing the issue of
forests and their sustainable management.

"A true understanding of the value of forests and its contribution
toward sustainable development can only be achieved when the social
and cultural values are linked to environment and economic values,
and recognizing the position of young people as major partners and
not just as ordinary stakeholders is very essential in this case."

He called on the Forum to create youth forest ambassadors in each
region, and encouraged Member States to support talented students in
becoming highly qualified forestry professionals, as well as the
development of global youth initiatives to empower young people in
sustainable forestry management.

Paul Rosolie of the United States, 25, knows very well the power of
young people to initiate action on environmental issues. He became
interested in forests as a young boy living in New Jersey, but found
that he did not have access to many forests where he was.

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