The Yellow Tailed Woolly Monkey Project enjoyed a ten day visit of the “Living on the Edge Productions”, who filmed the different aspects of the project. Everyone was very happy to take part in the film and excellent footage was captured of both human and non-human.
The crew also filmed the women of the AMAVLE, a communal association established by NPC, who recently got awarded a grant by development NGO “Sierra Norte” for the development of sustainable economic alternatives. These funds are used to purches equipment and further build the womens capacity in designing and producing handicrafts. The women were filmed telling of how they are hoping to find markets for their products which will give them well diserved economic indipendance from their husbands as well as an opertunity to promote the special biodiversity of the area by intagrating images of wildlife in their handicrafts.

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