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and you know by knowing. when to look. behind you say 2 of the trucks have also come to a standstill. as you did. under the bus over the legacy but. i think. a lot of. very much that. morning is rain forest is shared by 3 countries indonesia malaysia and bernanke it's home to hundreds of endemic plants and animals are rich in unique habitat that
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is slowly dying its abundant resources overexploited its right woods decimated today less than half the trees remain. yet the procession of trucks never ends the forest tries to slow that progress as best as it can. but here wood to means money to trucks stop at nothing to get that cargo to ports and big cities 7 days a week. each journey is fruitless challenges adroitness overcoming them and them a salary of about $550.00 a month. you said has now been carrying this house on the back of his truck for 7 hours. he's tired but remains focused. lisa lisa.
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flee as the locust prepare for tomorrow's walk the terentia rain pounds down on the camp it's not without consequence. on their days off the men only on hoff of a usual salary. none will risk working with a chainsaw or driving on it's been reduced to mud. up to 3 days of rain the locals have even be taken out by what. each of them makes sure to speed up the cutting and transporting of the wood to. hoping to own a bonus for the extra efforts they want to make up the wages that lost.
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this giant tree grows one centimeter every yeah it's taken thousands of years to grow to decides. it's worth it is the hardest and densest in the world and at the name ironwood. even once on the ground it's still managing to make the longest lives difficult. to share way to the tree is driving the bulldozer towards the ravine. please even in those still cages the drivers have to be kept. off the desk.
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so. that the let's. look at yeah you know i think i'm going in a. place moving the trunk is proving to be a big challenge especially as the bulldozer is now stop please to free it the forest will once again pay a heavy price. live. another tree is filed to help slide the logs on to the bulldozers tracks.
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the bulldozer devours everything and that's creating a trail for the drive it's. up now but not much. but by the. look of the. place each new track brings its own unknown danger is. according to the dr as they have never been any deaths but many injuries. to the. each one of them except it's the risks as an occupational hazard.
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i. play. to drive this on a fixed salary with added bonuses if they manage to transport more would have been expected that it's not looking promising for today's bonus. the bulldozer driver brings back bad news the road is an accessible unless the dr is used this technique nicknamed the come god. uses return journey promises to be event. will take on the same bridge in the opposite direction to you know dead transporting the joint would logs to the river
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after 10 hours of driving and logging the men are exhausted. deep in the middle of the forest temperatures average around 30 degrees celsius the humidity a suffocating 80 percent. get it going on a nice month you can almost not i don't want to back out to stop i am not talking about inviting it was that what. i love most i want to write a day that would not go on there now that we're on what i'm hearing but do you think. it's nothing new i'm just getting more.
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and more into thought it was not given permission. i wonder if i forgot about that every spring when do. you know enough about. that got me going to pick out what. i don't know where you're going but. you know i'm going to do without i'm going to do my so here good. for you donald all right. so you can be dealt with not only the going to go up but. see you out of the woodwork but if you've got. a good. look.
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there are thousands of tons of tree trunks piled on this for the pads. transporting them requires massive quantities of petrol and expensive option. instead the logs will complete the journey to the shipping ports by water a small outboard motor to keep it moving forward. this child is for the hell and driven driving tribe. it takes considerable know how. the ropes holding the rough together can easily trap back hands and feet. across a body shop and at the select. a new exhibit ready.
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but you know they could you know said that. and then he said by and by the way it goes. on this day close to 30 rock so i had it down the river. and what many describe as an ecological massacre. forestry companies are the ones who profit most oil palm plantations and residential communities often replace the de forested areas. sometimes.
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