Interesting to see that a fancy auction house in London is selling an original Banksy image that the great man designed for us, which featured in our forest campaign back in 2002.
The Times are reporting (pay wall warning), as well as the Daily Mail, that we ran a mile when Disney roared its disapproval and claimed breach of copyright. Not true. As the picture above proves, we used the image in all sorts of places (the image above shows James Nesbitt performing comedy in front of it) and only withdrew after the campaign had run its natural course.
It’s a little controversial, for sure, but we think that Mowgli, Baloo and even Shere Khan would have been happy for their picture to help raise awareness of rainforest destruction. They would have been amazed to hear how valuable it is too – Bonhams reckons the sale could raise £80,000.
Let's hope the money goes to a good cause.
Those of you who were at some of the big festivals this year, WOMAD, Latitude, the Big Chill, Vintage at Goodwood and The Thames festival couldn’t have missed our Save the Rainforest display. In fact thousands of you signed up to become Forest Defenders and had your pictures taken in front of our Banksy Jungle Book canvas. Banksy kindly redrew the original for us, have a look at the pictures:
