Giant Studios, creators of Avatar, has come forward with the final infusion of funds needed for an important reforestation project in Costa Rica.
Avatar, directed by James Cameron, stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang. Set in the year 2154 on Pandora, a fictional inhabited Earth-like moon, the film explores the mining of Pandora's precious minerals. A race of humanoids indigenous to the moon, based in a settlement called Hometree, resist the human mining operation, which threatens the continued existence of the Pandoran ecosystem.
It seems fitting that the creators of a film that explores the exploitation of ecosystems would fund Connecting Forest Islands in Costa Rica, a project of the Lake Arenal-area La Reserva Forest Foundation aimed at restoring the natural balance to a beautiful but threatened area of Costa Rica.
Giant Studies named their donation to La Reserva "Project Hometree."
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Sounds appropriate, glad they saw it that way.
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