Directed by John Lee Hancock (SAVING MR. BANKS), THE FOUNDER features the true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a struggling salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. Writer Robert Siegel (THE WRESTLER) details how Kroc maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire. The film also stars Laura Dern as Ray Kroc’s first wife, Ethel; John Carroll Lynch as Mac McDonald; and Nick Offerman as Dick McDonald.
It’s a controversial question – can selective logging coexist with Brazil nut harvesting? As part of their livelihoods, many of Peru’s Brazil nut concession holders currently do both, but it’s not yet know what effect timber harvesting is having on Brazil nut production. To find out, CIFOR researchers and local university students are working in Madre de Dios alongside harvesters in the concessions, measuring nut production and logging impacts.
To learn more, and for more stories of CIFOR’s work in the Amazon, visit https://blog.cifor.org/amazon
MUSIC: Special thanks to composer Oscar Alberto Macedo Mejia for allowing us to use his songs “Hermano Nativo” and “Pueblo Viejo”, from an album composed for the centenary of Madre de Dios.
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