Meet iLCP Fellow Photographer
Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier
Mexico

Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier is a Mexican-born photographer based in Washington, DC. Although her first career was as a  Biochemical Engineer specializing on marine sciences, it was her passion for conservation and the challenges of effectively communicating the relevance of environmental issues to our everyday life that led her to photography. Today she is blazing a trail in the field of conservation communications and she is one of the most innovative thinkers and visionaries in this field.

Cristina has served as President of the ILCP (www.ilcp.com) since 2005, she also serves on the Chairman’s Council at Conservation International (CI) and she is a member of the Steering Committee of the Commission on Communication and Education of the IUCN. She is a Board Member of the WILD Foundation and Lighthawk, serves on the Advisory Board of Nature's Best Foundation and the Blue Ocean Film Festival and she is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists.

Cristina is one of Sony’s Artisans of the Image and all her work is created with Sony’s Alpha 900 system. She is a passionate and effective lecturer who often speaks on subjects ranging from conservation science to the effective use of photography in conservation. In 2010 Cristina was named one of the 40 most influential Nature Photographers by Outdoor Photographer Magazine and as Conservation Photographer of the Year by Nature's Best Photography.

From the popular to the scientific, her work has appeared in major magazines around the world and her passion for our beautiful planet has become the overriding theme for everything she does.

Her work is represented by National Geographic Image Collection.

Visit Cristina's website at www.cristinamittermeier.com

  • Flathead Wild Intro
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  • Scouting Mission: Great Bear Rainforest RAVE
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  • Biodiversity 2010
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  • Flathead Wild Revisited
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  • Salmon Strongholds
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  • Great Bear Rainforest RAVE
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  • Flathead Wild Film
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  • NPR Interview With Cristina Mittermeier
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  • Bioko RAVE Multimedia, English Version
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Flathead Wild Intro

by Epicocity and iLCP Multimedia


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Scouting Mission: Great Bear Rainforest RAVE

by iLCP


Cristina speaks for a threatened landscape and way of life.

Having Just returned from the June scouting trip for the Great Bear Rainforest RAVE, Cristina Speaks for a threatened landscape and way of life.

Large tankers plan to travel through fragile ecosystems on the BC coast in the Great Bear Rainforest (GBR). While a major oil spill is a leading concern, just the presence of these tankers disrupts the ecosystem on which the First Nations rely as well as many species which call the GBR home.

Photography: Cristina Mittermeier Video: Jenny Nichols

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Biodiversity 2010

by iLCP Multimedia, Jenny Nichols


With sincere thanks to all of the iLCP photographers involved, the iLCP produced a multimedia piece for the GEF (Global Environment Facility) as their celebration of the year of Biodiversity, 2010. The GEF premiered the piece on Capitol Hill ( see more on the event here: ilcpblog.blogspot.com/​2010/​05/​biodiversity-2010.html )Guest Photographers:Tom Carlisle Haroldo Castro Santiago Gibert Seth Patterson

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Flathead Wild Revisited

by EP Films and iLCP Multimedia


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Salmon Strongholds

by iLCP Multimedia, Jenny Nichols (iLCP), Laura Shpilenok (WSC), Mark Christmas (iLCP) and Dan Nelson (WSC)


“Let us now, at the eleventh hour, take pity on our long persecuted salmon and do him the poor and tardy justice of giving him, in our broad land that he has done so much for, one place where he can come and go unmolested and where he can rest in safety.” - Livingston Stone

Produced in partnership with the Wild Salmon Center with support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.In 1892, Livingston Stone, a Minister and avid fisherman called upon the US government to create a salmon park, saying “Let us now, at the eleventh hour, take pity on our long persecuted salmon and do him the poor and tardy justice of giving him, in our broad land that he has done so much for, one place where he can come and go unmolested and where he can rest in safety.” We have yet to pay attention to those great words, stated over a century ago.While recovery efforts are critical in some areas, the nations of the North Pacific must work together to create and maintain a network of strong, healthy salmon ecosystems – strongholds of diversity and abundance. This proactive investment in robust salmon ecosystems provides an alternative to waiting until near extinction to try to reverse the effects of habitat degradation and overharvest.Fortunately, there are rivers across the North Pacific still intact and teeming with wild salmon.By identifying and protecting strongholds of robust salmon productivity in key rivers around the North Pacific Rim, we can direct our efforts toward conserving still healthy and intact salmon ecosystems. Wild salmon rivers are core centers of abundance and diversity, serving as the foundation for healthy wild fisheries, healthy economies, and healthy communities.Protection of wild salmon strongholds must be at the heart of every federal, regional, tribal, and local conservation strategy.We need your help.To learn more, visit The Wild Salmon Center

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Great Bear Rainforest RAVE

by iLCP Multimedia Jenny Nichols


The Multimedia produced for the press conference for the Great Bear Rainforest RAVE in Vancouver October 16, 2010.

The Multimedia produced for the press conference for the Great Bear Rainforest RAVE in Vancouver October 16, 2010.

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Flathead Wild Film

by iLCP Multimedia and Epicocity Project


Follow the International League of Conservation Photographers for a R.A.V.E. in the Flathead River Valley in Southeastern British Columbia. The goal of these Rapid Assessment Visual Expeditions is to capture compelling media to support an existing conservation effort. Here, in one of the most pristine river valleys on the planet, a proposed open pit coal mine would disrupt a critical habitat migration corridor and pollute the headwaters of Glacier National Park in the US.

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NPR Interview With Cristina Mittermeier

by NPR


Like the title says...

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Bioko RAVE Multimedia, English Version

by Cristina Mittermeier, Kathy Moran and Jenny Nichols


Travel with Joel Sartore, Christian Ziegler, Tim Laman, and Ian Nichols to Bioko, an island off the coast of Equatorial Guinea in West Africa.

Four renowned conservation photographers have brought back a disturbing yet hopeful portrait of the biodiversity, threats and efforts to conserve the small West African island of Bioko in Equatorial Guinea. Despite having a significant system of protected areas, the small West African nation has been unable to stave off the relentless hunting of wildlife, and especially primates, for human consumption, which is leading to the demise of some species.

The photographers are members of the iLCP, an organization that includes some of the most acclaimed photographers of our generation and whose mission is to further environmental and cultural conservation through ethical photography. RAVE, a trademarked initiative of the iLCP that stands for Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition, aims to address the challenges of modern conservation, which often demands an immediate supply of images, words and research to answer threats of imminent disruption to focus the attention from international media.

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Spirit Bear in New York City
Oct 19, 2011
Spirit Bear in New York City
Oct 19, 2011
We set up tripods, we followed guides, we lived on sailboats and tugboats, we were welcomed by the Gitga’at...
Great Bear Rainforest Exhibit shines in Prince George
Aug 31, 2011
Great Bear Rainforest Exhibit shines in Prince George
Aug 31, 2011
Bring your family and friends to this free exhibition and film series at UNBC and experience the awe...
A farewell to a wild river
Jun 19, 2011
A farewell to a wild river
Jun 19, 2011
Cristina Mittermeier
...Thanks to a populist government who has sold the idea of damming the Amazon’s tributaries as a solution...
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Borderlands RAVE
Jan 25 ~ Feb 18, 2009
Tripods in the Mud List All Tripods in the Mud >
Belo Monte TIM
Jun 19 ~ Jun 29, 2011
Brazilian Amazon
Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival
Oct 29 ~ Nov 6, 2011
Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival
Oct 29 ~ Nov 6, 2011
CEMEX Conservation Series List All CEMEX Conservation Series >
OCEANS: HEART OF OUR BLUE PLANET
Nov 23, 2011
With photography from the International League of Conservation photographers...
Water makes life on Earth possible, and every drop of it comes from and returns to the ocean. For centuries we have taken the ocean for granted, viewed it as inexhaustible,unknowable; a vast, briny, deep...
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Relics: Travels in Nature’s Time Machine
Nov 4, 2011
Dr. Piotr Naskrecki Foreword by Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier 384 pages...
What would you rather save from extinction: 3 different species of parrots, or a hummingbird, an owl, and a parrot?
Photo © Rich Lalonde
Everything I photograph is colored by the experiences I have had through my life ~ growing up in Mexico, being a marine biologist, raising children, writing, traveling all over the world, and a 20 year-long career in conservation.