It is my pleasure to announce that the full version of our award winning fPcN film "Conservation Refugees – Expelled from Paradise" is now online. The film has been won a 'Special Mention' at the Chicago Short Film Festival:http://www.mamut.net/festivalawards/newsdet9.htm and the awarded "Special Prize of the Jury" and the "Special Prize from the Estonian Ministry of Environment" at the 8th Matsalu Nature Film Festival in Estonia:http://www.matsalufilm.ee/festival/auhinnad_eng.html plus the "UWIP award" at the NAIFF film festival in Czech Republic: http://www.naiff.eu/fest/

Synopsis: It is no secret that millions of native people around the world have been forced off their homelands to make way for oil, mines, logging, and agriculture. But few people realise that the same thing has happened for a cause which is considered by many as much nobler: land and wildlife conservation. Indigenous peoples evicted from their ancestral homelands, for conservation initiatives, have never been acknowledged; they are not even officially recognised as refugees. The number of people displaced from their traditional homelands is estimated to be close to 20 million. These expelled native peoples have been living sustainable for generations on what can only be reasonably regarded as their ancestral land.

See the full film here: http://www.fpcn-global.org/en/video/Conservation-Refugees-Expelled-Paradise

Steffen Keulig
fPcN Germany