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An Activist Photojournalist
Named: Daniel Beltra
Birth: Madrid, Spain
Home town: Madrid, Spain
Schools:
- Forestry Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid 1983-1985
- Biology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid 1985-1989

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In Beltra's art works, he wants to show the raw destructions of the planet. He wants people to feel when they are looking at his works. Beltra wants his audiences to take action on fixing the pollution that is happening. This man does not want to take what so call a-pretty -pictures, he is more into taking pictures that show how broken the earth is.

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Beltra wants to start a conservation.

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"Daniel started out as a staff photographer in his native Madrid for the Spanish National Agency EFE. After four-years there, he became the Paris based Gamma Agency's correspondent in Spain. For a decade, he covered hard news and feature stories for Gamma around the world. He is fluent in English, French, and Spanish and is conversational in Portuguese from his many trips to the Amazon." - http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs075/1101775793036/archive/1103048449468.html

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Through out Daniels' journey as an activist photographer, he had earned himself 13 difference awards.
Here is the list of his awards down below:

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https://danielbeltra.photoshelter.com/index

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https://www.instagram.com/danielbeltraphoto/

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http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs075/1101775793036/archive/1103048449468.html

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The wold point why Daniel is doing this is because he wants to fixed the planet. He wants actions to be taking place. From all the different topics that Daniel has have covered, they all have the same common thing as in they are the after math of human destruction.

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"This Project, founded by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, recognizes the global role played by rainforests in climate change and aims to achieve consensus about how the rate of deforestation might be slowed and stopped" - Link. From earning this award, Daniel achieved his goal by faction because he caught the attention of of the people. He caused hem to feel like they need to do something, or even "stopped" the devastation.

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- The new/come up generation so they could make a change.

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- Daniel documented some area through decades so his works could be analyze.

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- To be public for a broader audiences.
- He has watermarks on his photos so he wants people to buy them.
- Here is a link of all the press that Daniel is working with. Link.

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http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:444256/ATTACHMENT01

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"The Congo basin rainforest of Central Africa is the second largest rainforest of the world after the
Amazon of South America."

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- "The Congo basin region
comprises ten percent of the remaining tropical and moist forests of the world. As one of the
world outstanding rainforests, it harbors mountain gorillas, lowland gorillas, chimpanzees, the
bonobos (the pygmy chimpanzees), elephants, lions, tigers, leopards, and an estimation of 400
other mammals‟ species. This rainforest is also estimated to harbor, 1000 bird species, 700
species of fish in its river, and over 10000 plant species, making it one of the areas of the
world with a rich concentration of biodiversity."

- "In fact, in Central Africa, some 75 million people depend on the forest for food and
shelter."

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"The Congo basin rainforest faces serious threats from the activities going on within the basin.
Unsustainable logging from commercial loggers to meet up timber demands from Europe,
China and the United States of America; the need for land for agriculture; bush meat hunting;
mineral and oil extraction threatens the forest and its wildlife. Other serious problems or
threats associated to the Congo basin forest include; climate change, population growth,
conflict and disease, problems of governance, lacking of forest management capacity,
shortages of funding to conservation and lack of awareness towards the dangers of forest depletion."