KEEPERS OF EDEN

On July 16 2005, 120 members of the Huaorani tribe burst into the Ecuadorian congress demanding that the devastation of their homeland in the Ecuadorian Amazon be immediatly sttoped.

For the past 40 years the most bio-diverse forest on earth is being contaminated by various oil companies. The forest's soil river and air is polluted by petrolium waste dumped witout sufficient environmental control. Every year more than 3 million gallons of waste is released into the Ecuadorian Amazon creating an environmental disaster. As a result, the inhabitants of the Amazon are dying from deseases related directly to oil pollution.

Through the eyes of several Huaorani grassroots leaders and biological experts KEEPERS OF EDEN exposes the enormous destruction of the Amazon forest and its indigenous inhabitants. KEEPERS OF EDEN exposes the environmental cost of oil development and examines consuramism against traditional values.

KEEPERS OF EDEN is a unique story about small group of indigenous activists fighting against the greatest power in the world, the power of oil.

76 minutes