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Richer Than Gold Expedition

With funding from the National Geographic Society and the American Orchid Society, Elisa Levy helped organize the Richer Than Gold expedition. This expedition brought together a team of scientists from all over Ecuador and the United States to conduct the first cross-kingdom biodiversity survey ever performed deep in the heart of the Los Cedros Protected Forest. 

Braving torrential downpours, steep mountainous terrain, and the risk of confrontation with miners illegally entering the Protected Forest, scientists traveled by foot up into the cloudy heights of the Cordillera de la Plata, a full day’s hike above the small Los Cedros Research Station. There, they established a base camp where researchers would stay for more than a month, documenting the incredible diversity of plants, fungi, and animals found there. Every day, they made discoveries of rare and endangered species, and sometimes even species entirely new to science.

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HandLens Productions, LLC - Megamining has come to Ecuador.THE RAINFOREST INFORMATION CENTRE presents a HANDLENS PRODUCTIONS film in association with AUGUST ROAD ENTERTAINMENT ECLECTIC REEL "MARROW OF THE MOUNTAIN" original music by WILLIAM BENTON HAMILTON edited by ANTONELLA CARRASCO DYLAN STIREWALT director of photography ANTONELLA CARRASCO supervising writer FERNANDA ROSSI executive producers MICHAEL ROSEN RAMIN FATHIE GENETTE EATON produced by ROO VANDEGRIFT directed by DYLAN STIREWALT SOLANGE YÉPEZ
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    A documentary about mining in Ecuador, centering the voices of women and a scientific expedition to the heart of the forest.