Operation PaiaKan
This campaign is named in honor of the heroic whale “Payakan” in James Cameron’s movie Avatar – The Way of Water. In 1989, Captain Watson worked with the late Kayapo Chief Paulinho Paiakan to oppose the Karoa Dam Project in Amazonia. “I’m not sure, but I assume that Cameron’s knowledge of the struggles in Amazonia could have been the inspiration for naming the Pandorian whale – Payakan. What I do know is that the man Paiakan was a friend, an inspiration for myself and a Warrior for…