Edson Faria Júnior

Edson is a Brazilian biologist with a MSc. degree in Ecology. He is an experienced camera operator, with works for blue chip films from international production companies, such as the BBC (The Green Planet, The Americas), Wildspace (Our Ocean), Wildstar Films (Sentient), Humble Bee (Airborne), among others.

Edson is a rope expert and dive instructor, with more than 3000 dives. He is also the founder of the Explora Web magazine, which has the aim of bringing themes related to the natural environment to the general public. Passionate about outdoors, and working on conservation and communication, Edson has the ability to connect Academia, NGOs and society, in developing media content for different platforms. He has developed the website “Tropical Rainforests”, the documentary about the “Ecorais Project”, podcasts, web videos and educational campaigns. In 2020, he worked as editor of the series Vida no Azul, currently at Discovery+ in the entire Latin America.