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Some people will ask, why? Why is it important to save these environments, to save the oceans, or the vast

variety of species? First, we can not survive without the land we reside on. We need it for agriculture, for the

forest, for growth, for life, and for the exploration and discovery that allows us to thrive as humans. Second,

the oceans give us more than half of the oxygen we breathe, it feeds us, and filters out pollution. Lastly, the

vast number of plants and animals on this planet give us medicine, food, oxygen, and love. Everything on this

planet helps the other in some way or another and without each other, we are off balance.

It is our responsibility to help maintain and protect it all as we are the most advanced species existing here.

We need photographs that will pull at heart strings and educate the public. We need photographs to

communicate in a way language cannot. We need photographs to show areas of the most unreachable terrains

of the earth that are otherwise left forgotten.

Below is an image of a river that has a nonprofit established working to fight for its wellbeing and life.

The other, a rive forgotten and mistreated. The first image is a river that flows into the water source of nearly

700,000 people, while the other effects even more. The first has been advocated for, images displayed

throughout the media, and fundraisers initiated to preserve it. The other is hardly even known of. Do you think

photography could help save Rio Huantay?

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