A Book in Stewardship of Our Natural Landscape and In Support of the World Wide Fund For Nature

“A culture that can instill the need for harmony and interdependence towards our natural environment within its people has the best chance for a sustainable future”, reads the last page inside Yuka & The Forest, alluding to the success story that is Japan, where forests cover 67% of its total land area. Yuka & The Forest holds up the mirror to our intolerable, collective in-action in the face of the climate crisis. So pained by this reality, we have found ourselves paralysed, much like the book’s protagonist Yuka, who at the end of her journey contemplates: “Perhaps if only I had called after it (the hare, the guardian of the woods) in time, it could have warned the spirits, it could have pleaded with the kisetsu? Instead I stand silent and motionless; my mind burned by a vision of a forest that once stood so tall and then was gone.” Printed on 100% recycled paper, 30% of proceeds were donated to the World Wide Fund For Nature, working in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment.