Mitre Peninsula
| PROJECT COMPLETED
Mitre Peninsula is where it all began. The Gauchos del Mar documentary highlighted the urgent need to protect this unique territory in Tierra del Fuego—its ancient peatlands, southern forests, and an exceptional marine biodiversity previously unknown to the world.
The campaign born from that film gathered 165,000 signatures and supported the process that culminated in the declaration of Mitre Peninsula as a Protected Natural Area. That journey proved something that today defines everything we do: that a well-told story can change the destiny of a territory. That is how the Foundation was born—so that every documentary that follows has the same chance to generate real impact.
THE FILM
NAME
GOAL
PRODUCTION
DURATION
LANGUAGE
SUBTITLES
Mitre Peninsula: The Forgotten Land
(2016)
300,000 hectares of land and 200,000 hectares of sea were successfully conserved forever, becoming a Protected Natural Area.
Gauchos del Mar
01:28:09 min
Spanish
English, Portuguese, German, Japanese, French and Spanish
THE FILM
NAME
Mitre Peninsula: The Forgotten Land (2016)
GOAL
300,000 hectares of land and 200,000 hectares of sea were successfully conserved forever, becoming a Protected Natural Area.
PRODUCTION
Gauchos del Mar
DURATION
01:28:09 min
LANGUAGE
Español
SUBTITLES
English, Portuguese, German, Japanese, French and Spanish
The Gauchos del Mar documentary put what was at stake on screen. But the campaign went much further. A screening tour brought the film to schools, cultural spaces, and communities across Argentina. The film made it to Netflix and Disney+, reaching audiences that never would have stepped into a theater. The alliance with local and international foundations added voices and amplified the message. 165,000 people signed the petition. And Mitre Peninsula was declared a Protected Natural Area.
That journey demonstrated that a well-told story can change the fate of a territory. And from that conviction, the Foundation was born, so that every project that comes after has the same possibility of generating real impact.
WHY MITRE PENINSULA
Mitre Peninsula is one of the last truly wild territories in South America. 300,000 hectares of land and 200,000 of sea at the tip of Tierra del Fuego—ancient peatlands, southern forests, exceptional marine biodiversity, and waters that remain among the most pristine on the planet.
It is also Argentina's greatest carbon capture point. 45% of Tierra del Fuego's peatlands are in Mitre Peninsula: a key ecosystem for mitigating climate change that the world, until then, practically did not know about. Despite this, a bill to protect it had been shelved for years in the Tierra del Fuego Legislature. What was missing was for people to know about it.
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