Nature Is Speaking

Nature Is Speaking is an ongoing environmental awareness campaign by Conservation International that was launched in 2014. ^[1] The campaign is developed by TBWA\Media Arts Lab and produced by RadicalMedia for Conservation International. ^[2] It was conceptualized by Peter Seligmann and Lee Clow ^[3] and its launch was led by M. Sanjayan. ^[4]

Concept

The campaign intends to raise awareness that people need nature in order to survive. It features a series of short films in each of which different aspects of nature are voiced by well-known personalities. Each film ends with the following slogan: "Nature doesn't need people. People need nature." ^[1]

Languages

As of 2023, the campaign has been released in 11 different languages: English, Mandarin, Portuguese, Filipino, Spanish, Cantonese, Indonesian, German, French, Dutch and Arabic.

Language	Title	Debut air date	Year	Episodes	Overall
English	Nature Is Speaking	October 6, 2014	2014	8	14
			2015	2
			2016	2
			2018	1
			2021	1
Spanish	La Naturaleza Nos Habla	October 6, 2014 September 21, 2017	2014	1	9
			2017	6
			2020	1
			2023	1
Dutch	Nature Is Speaking	March 26, 2015	2015	1	1
Mandarin	大自然在说话	April 8, 2015	2015	7	13
			2016	6
Cantonese	大自然在說話	May 6, 2015	2015	2	5
			2016	3
Portuguese	A Natureza Está Falando	August 12, 2015	2015	7	13
			2016	5
			2023	1
Indonesian	Alam Berbicara	November 5, 2015	2015	4	4
German	Die Natur Spricht	November 30, 2015	2015	2	4
			2016	1
			2022	1
French	La Nature Parle	December 4, 2015	2015	3	4
			2021	1
Filipino	Nature Is Speaking	October 7, 2016	2016	9	9
Arabic	Nature Is Speaking	November 16, 2016	2016	1	1

Films

No.	Original title	Original voice actor	Original language	Year	Versions	Ref.
1	Mother Nature	Julia Roberts	English	2014	9	[5]
2	The Ocean	Harrison Ford	English	2014	6	[5]
3	The Rainforest	Kevin Spacey	English	2014	6	[5]
4	The Soil	Edward Norton	English	2014	6	[5]
5	Water / Agua	Penélope Cruz	English / Spanish	2014	7	[5] [6]
6	The Redwood	Robert Redford	English	2014	2	[5]
7	Coral Reef	Ian Somerhalder	English	2014	6
8	Flower	Lupita Nyong'o	English	2014	5
9	Ice	Liam Neeson	English	2015	4	[7]
10	Home / La Maison	Reese Witherspoon / Marion Cotillard	English / French	2015	8	[8]
11	Mountain	Lee Pace	English	2016	5	[9]
12	Sky / 天空	Joan Chen	English / Mandarin	2016	4	[10] [11]
13	A Amazônia	Camila Pitanga	Portuguese	2016	4	[12]
14	El Páramo	Carlos Vives	Spanish	2017	1	[13]
15	Forest	Shailene Woodley	English	2018	1	[14]
16	The Wave	Jason Momoa	English	2021	3	[15]

Mother Nature

Language	Title	Voice actor	Release date	Ref.
English	Mother Nature	Julia Roberts	October 6, 2014	[1]
Dutch	Moeder Natuur	Halina Reijn	March 26, 2015	[16] [17]
Mandarin	大自然母亲 (Daziran Muqin)	Jiang Wenli	April 8, 2015
Portuguese	A Mãe Natureza	Maria Bethânia	August 13, 2015
Indonesian	Ibu Pertiwi	Christine Hakim	November 6, 2015
German	Mutter Natur	Hannelore Elsner	November 30, 2015
French	Mère Nature	Sophie Marceau	December 4, 2015
Filipino	Inang Kalikasan	Lea Salonga	October 7, 2016
Spanish	Madre Naturaleza	Salma Hayek	September 21, 2017

The Ocean

Language	Title	Voice actor	Release date	Ref.
English	The Ocean	Harrison Ford	October 6, 2014	[5]
Mandarin	海洋 (Haiyang)	Jiang Wen	April 15, 2015
Portuguese	O Oceano	Rodrigo Santoro	2015
Indonesian	Samudra	Lukman Sardi	2015
German	Der Ozean	Hannes Jaenicke	2015
Filipino	Karagatan	John Lloyd Cruz	2016

The Rainforest

Language	Title	Voice actor	Release date	Ref.
English	The Rainforest	Kevin Spacey	October 6, 2014	[5]
Mandarin	雨林 (Yulin)	Ge You	April 22, 2015
Indonesian	Hutan Tropis	Pandji Pragiwaksono	2015
Portuguese	A Floresta	Pedro Bial	2015
French	La Forêt Tropicale	Nicolas Hulot	2015
Filipino	Kagubatan	Noel Cabangon	2016

The Soil

Language	Title	Voice actor	Release date	Ref.
English	The Soil	Edward Norton	October 6, 2014	[5]
Mandarin	土地 (Tudi)	Chen Jianbin	April 29, 2015
Portuguese	O Solo	Gilberto Gil	2015
Filipino	Lupa	Robert Arevalo	2016
German	Der Boden	Oliver Mommsen	November 17, 2016	[18] [19]
Spanish	El Suelo	Juan Fernando Velasco	2017

Water

Language	Title	Voice actor	Release date	Ref.
English	Water	Penélope Cruz	October 6, 2014	[1]
Spanish	Agua / El Agua	Penélope Cruz	October 6, 2014 September 21, 2017	[6] [20] [13]
Mandarin	水 (Shui)	Zhou Xun	May 6, 2015
Cantonese	水 (Seoi)	Zhou Xun	May 6, 2015
Portuguese	A Água	Maitê Proença	September 2, 2015
Indonesian	Air	Najwa Shihab	November 13, 2015
Filipino	Tubig	Cris Villonco	October 7, 2016

The Redwood

Language	Title	Voice actors	Release date	Ref.
English	The Redwood	Robert Redford & Lena Redford	October 6, 2014	[5]
Mandarin	红木 (Hongmu)	Pu Cunxin & Zhang Jiadi	2015

Coral Reef

Language	Title	Voice actor	Release date	Ref.
English	Coral Reef	Ian Somerhalder	October 27, 2014
Portuguese	O Recife de Coral	Max Fercondini	October 14, 2015	[21]
Cantonese	珊瑚礁 (Saan-wu Ziu)	Donnie Yen	2015
Mandarin	珊瑚礁 (Shanhu Jiao)	Donnie Yen	2015
Filipino	Bahura	Piolo Pascual	2016
Spanish	El Arrecife de Coral	Rubén Blades	2017

Flower

Language	Title	Voice actor	Release date	Ref.
English	Flower	Lupita Nyong'o	December 1, 2014
Cantonese	花 (Faa)	Tang Wei	2015
Mandarin	花 (Hua)	Tang Wei	2015
Portuguese	A Flor	Juliana Paes	2015
Filipino	Bulaklak	Angel Aquino	2016

Ice

Language	Title	Voice actor	Release date	Ref.
English	Ice	Liam Neeson	November 12, 2015	[7]
Mandarin	冰 (Bing)	Tony Leung Chiu-wai	April 20, 2016	[11]
Cantonese	冰 (Ping)	Tony Leung Chiu-wai	2016
Portuguese	O Gelo	Zeca Camargo	2017

Home / Earth

Language	Title	Voice actor	Release date	Ref.
English	Home	Reese Witherspoon	December 10, 2015	[8]
French	La Maison	Marion Cotillard	December 10, 2015	[8]
Mandarin	家园 (Jiayuan)	Sylvia Chang	April 27, 2016	[22]
Cantonese	家 (Gaa)	Sylvia Chang	April 27, 2016
Filipino	Tahanan	Jaclyn Jose	October 7, 2016
Portuguese	O Lar	Vanessa Lóes	October 17, 2016
Arabic	Home	Asma Lmnawar	November 16, 2016	[23]
German	Erde	Marie Nasemann	June 28, 2022	[24]

Mountain

Language	Title	Voice actor	Release date	Ref.
English	Mountain	Lee Pace	March 15, 2016	[9]
Mandarin	山 (Shan)	Feng Xiaogang	May 18, 2016	[25]
Filipino	Bundok	Robert Seña	2016
Portuguese	A Montanha	Thiago Lacerda	2016
Spanish	La Montaña	Fonseca	2017

Sky

Language	Title	Voice actor	Release date	Ref.
English	Sky	Joan Chen	April 18, 2016	[10]
Mandarin	天空 (Tiankong)	Joan Chen	May 11, 2016	[26]
Portuguese	O Céu	Lenine	2016
Spanish	El Cielo	Eugenio Derbez	2017

The Amazon

Language	Title	Voice actor	Release date	Ref.
Portuguese	A Amazônia	Camila Pitanga	August 27, 2016	[12]
Mandarin	亚马逊 (Yamaxun)	Jin Dong	November 17, 2016	[27]
Spanish	Amazonía	Catalina García	September 3, 2020
French	L'Amazonie	Mélanie Laurent	November 6, 2021

The Páramo

Language	Title	Voice actor	Release date	Ref.
Spanish	El Páramo	Carlos Vives	September 21, 2017	[13]

Forest

Language	Title	Voice actor	Release date	Ref.
English	Forest	Shailene Woodley	October 4, 2018	[14]

The Wave

Language	Title	Voice actor	Release date	Ref.
English	The Wave	Jason Momoa	June 17, 2021	[15]
Spanish	La Ola	Sofía Mulánovich	June 8, 2023	[28]
Portuguese	A Onda	Carlos Burle	June 24, 2023	[29] [30]

Voice Actors

Title	Language
	English	Dutch	Mandarin	Cantonese	Portuguese	Indonesian	German	French	Filipino	Arabic	Spanish
Mother Nature	2014 Julia Roberts	2015 Halina Reijn	2015 Jiang Wenli		2015 Maria Bethânia	2015 Christine Hakim	2015 Hannelore Elsner	2015 Sophie Marceau	2016 Lea Salonga		2017 Salma Hayek
The Ocean	2014 Harrison Ford		2015 Jiang Wen		2015 Rodrigo Santoro	2015 Lukman Sardi	2015 Hannes Jaenicke		2016 John Lloyd Cruz
The Rainforest	2014 Kevin Spacey		2015 Ge You		2015 Pedro Bial	2015 Pandji Pragiwaksono		2015 Nicolas Hulot	2016 Noel Cabangon
The Soil	2014 Edward Norton		2015 Chen Jianbin		2015 Gilberto Gil		2016 Oliver Mommsen		2016 Robert Arevalo		2017 Juan Fernando Velasco
Water	2014 Penélope Cruz		2015 Zhou Xun	2015 Zhou Xun	2015 Maitê Proença	2015 Najwa Shihab			2016 Cris Villonco		2014 Penélope Cruz
The Redwood	2014 Robert Redford		2015 Pu Cunxin
Coral Reef	2014 Ian Somerhalder		2015 Donnie Yen	2015 Donnie Yen	2015 Max Fercondini				2016 Piolo Pascual		2017 Rubén Blades
Flower	2014 Lupita Nyong'o		2015 Tang Wei	2015 Tang Wei	2015 Juliana Paes				2016 Angel Aquino
Ice	2015 Liam Neeson		2016 Tony Leung	2016 Tony Leung	2016 Zeca Camargo
Home / Earth	2015 Reese Witherspoon		2016 Sylvia Chang	2016 Sylvia Chang	2016 Vanessa Lóes		2022 Marie Nasemann	2015 Marion Cotillard	2016 Jaclyn Jose	2016 Asma Lmnawar
Mountain	2016 Lee Pace		2016 Feng Xiaogang		2016 Thiago Lacerda				2016 Robert Sena		2017 Fonseca
Sky	2016 Joan Chen		2016 Joan Chen		2016 Lenine						2017 Eugenio Derbez
The Amazon			2016 Jin Dong		2016 Camila Pitanga			2021 Mélanie Laurent			2020 Catalina García
The Paramo											2017 Carlos Vives
Forest	2018 Shailene Woodley
The Wave	2021 Jason Momoa				2023 Carlos Burle						2023 Sofía Mulánovich

External links

• Official website
• Nature Is Speaking at IMDb

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