In the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, the Indigenous Awajún community makes a bio-leather alternative to animal-derived and synthetic materials from the sap of trees they defend against deforestation.
This film follows Awajún women creating shiringa bio-leather with regeneratively collected rubber sap from native shiringa trees, used and cared for over hundreds of years.
The little known material supports a frontline community to protect biodiversity, animals and a longstanding culture.
Up Next in Season 1
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Rising Up
In a world facing a changing climate and a degrading ocean, particularly impacting young people, 23-year-old Australian changemaker and Take 3 For the Sea ambassador Kal Glanznig embarks on a global journey to uncover the untold stories of hope and solutions to the climate and ocean plastic crisi...
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The Chiefs
THE CHIEFS is a powerful short documentary from the producers of Ocean with David Attenborough and Netflix’s Breaking Boundaries, created in collaboration with Capacity Foundation. The film follows Cacique Álvaro Tukano, a renowned Indigenous leader of the Brazilian Amazon, as he confronts accele...
