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While #covid-19 may have torpedoed my remaining film plans for the year, I am so stoked to have some exciting news to share. Along with the insanely talented @amy_squirrel we have won an award from the @sesexplore to be announced on May the 20th. Tune in on that date to the #oscarsofexploration to find out more about our plan to use conservation film making in Rwanda. Here’s a teaser of what’s to come!!

Call for help: The community organisation I worked with last year training young people in the art of film making is in dire straights right now. If you don’t know, the @purplecommunityfund works with the most impoverished communities in Manila and surrounding area. Now that a lockdown is in effect, they are not able to feed themselves and starvation is becoming a reality. There is a team of hero’s on the ground who are risking everything to continue to get supplies in but they urgently need funds to buy them (they’re running out). If you have anything to spare, please please please consider making a donation through the @purplecommunityfund ‘s webpage or Facebook group. It really is the most critical moment for them, some have not eaten in days. Share this film if you can with others who can help. And THANK YOU.

Some mountains just look IMPOSING. These ones, Pico Bonito, may hold more secrets than anywhere else in Central America. It’s possible there are species here that have gone extinct from everywhere else. Few people have ever penetrated far into the sheer rock faces, canyons and peaks. . Still in Moskitia waiting on things to get back to normal! This was taken en-route here weeks ago. #mountains #landscape #honduras #picobonito #centralamerica #lockdown #travel #wilderness #sony #laceiba #dramatic #mountain #mountains

So it looks like I’m not going anywhere anytime soon! Curfew has been extended across Honduras and doesn’t look like it is going to change anytime soon. Borders are still closed so I could be Moskitias newest resident... the sunsets however are rather beautiful and there’s now plenty of time for self portraits 🌅

So turns out I’m rather stranded in the Moskitia forest. Honduras has closed down travel internally, borders are shut and with no roads it seems like I’ll be here a while! Plenty of fresh food and water though and the views are rather amazing so all in all, could be a lot worse. Stay safe everyone!!

Sunrise rituals at sea in Myanmar 🇲🇲 On my way to Honduras tonight! 🇭🇳 I will be filming in La Mosquitia, one of the great wild landscapes of Central America, working on a project to document indigenous peoples efforts to protect their land against invading cattle ranchers.

I don’t normally do this but here goes... This is the island of La Ngan in the remote outer reaches of the Myiek Archipelago, and is home to one of the last remaining communities of sea gypsies in Myanmar, known as Moken. Not so long ago they lived almost entirely at sea, only returning to land when the rains started. Filming there was both beautiful and tragic, as the Moken people told of how their ancestral fishing and cultural grounds, which have been a part of their way of life for centuries, are now being closed off to them by the Japanese pearl company @tasaki_intl. The Moken openly talk of being wiped out, as their whole community will have no way to live, if planned expansions of their pearl farms, already disrupting the Moken way of life, go ahead. So @tasaki_intl, and all your corporate partners, I’d invite you to go spend some time with these people, listen to them, learn from them and consider the weight of your short term profits and bank statements, measured against an ancient way of life and people who are being crushed by them.

Short stint in the Alps 🇫🇷 before a manic few months begins! First up - Brazil 🇧🇷 on Sunday to film efforts to reforest sections of the Atlantic forest, preserve endemic wildlife and promote community livelihoods. Next - Myanmar (Burma) 🇲🇲 for films to tackle the issue of the shark and manta ray fin trade. Then Honduras 🇭🇳 to begin a series documenting indigenous peoples fight to protect their land from illegal cattle ranchers with a stop over in Costa Rica 🇨🇷 for some wildlife encounters.

@leonardodicaprio strikes again!!! 🤯 Another one of my short film’s the utter legend has shared! At the recent @cop25_madrid - indigenous leaders, Central American goverents, NGO’s including @thewcs and @global_wildlife_conservation and civil society groups committed to forming an alliance to combat climate change by protecting the #5greatforests of Mesoamerica. Tackling the existential threat of global warming will require us recognising the stewardship indigenous people across the globe have over their land, and models like this represent a beacon of hope.

So good to be grounded and home even for a bit. 2020 is already looking like another mad one! Projects in the pipeline include throwing a spotlight on the trade in sharks and manta rays in Myanmar 🇲🇲 exploring the Atlantic forest of Brazil 🇧🇷 telling the story of indigenous rangers protecting their forests in Honduras 🇭🇳 as well as many others yet to be confirmed... gotta say though there’s nothing quite like north Devon autumn surf and skies.