Our Pet Woodpecker

• Photographer
  Karen Lunney, Australia
• Studio
  Cindual Pty Ltd

Throughout the world, social fabrics distort in response to
demands or actions from distant countries. Children must adapt to
evolving conditions, new constraints and unforeseen
opportunities. The grandparents of Waorani girls had rarely met
outsiders but their rainforest surroundings in East Ecuador will be
affected by Chinese-facilitated oil exploitation within the next few
years. When we visited the Waorani homelands these little girls
had saved a baby woodpecker from certain death in the forest.
They had made a comfortable home and we couldn't help
contrasting their compassion with the lack of agreement by the
world on the Ecuadorian Government proposed Yasuni-ITT which
may have saved their homeland and which was scrapped soon
after we left these generous people.

• Awards
  2014 IPA Nature Photographer of the Year 2014 IPA Wildlife Photographer of the Year 4th Documentary section 2013 International Loupe Awards 4th Wildlife section 2014 International Loupe Awards Finalist 2014 Smithsonian Photography Competition Finalist 2014 Natural History Museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year Finalist 2014 HIPA Dubai