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the tiny village of tundra deep in madagascar has lost primeval jungle. the people who live off the land hunting fishing and farming. as there are few paying jobs money discuss. because they are very much. to choose from russia south from them the. little man the. team you can plan their life. and also doing any and
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some of the facets stuff that you have. to them so much about isaac and for you. robert now it is one of the few villages who has ever had a proper job he used to be a forest ranger he protected the forest from those seeking to plunder its precious woods but a few years ago robert was fired the game keeper has now become a coach he smuggles group which i read and truman. play all different and i don't. need the all laughing laughing all the time be needful fighting among and with but coaching is not without risk the tree is in such high demand that it's close to extinction for the past 3 years authorities here had banned all rosewood logging. ahead lies a 9 day journey where robert and the other smugglers will seek out foul and carry
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a rosewood treat while evading police and navigating madagascar's unpredictable rivers and forests. and a long time going to be. big when we are. but it's not only the police they have to avoid marauding thieves have also been attracted to the area. that i'm afraid we're all local and i was going to move the. public in general and london by they. are down the buggering and the bus yes you got it. and you are saying go on pool.
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foundation and act in their own meaning they were there for the room one of the would be locked up but indian public yellow don't step on one little. contender man. carrying packs weighing as much as 50 kilos and barefoot the group also has to negotiate a demanding jungle. he was on a monday. after a harrowing 2 day track the group sports another trafficante. rabbit is worried that he may be carrying the last of the rules of the trees from the area. a day to come on up the baton might. be dumped on the midterms when out to. visit
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with its mates when i got off with a fine 10 a year away from one little atlanta and then she. knew not a fashion she didn't like using the risk of harm can outlast us by kissing a sky. 6 days deep into the forest robert and his men have found their treasure. if they can get this rosewood tree to market they would make enough for the next 6 months. a tree this size confided to around $10000.00 that's all. i think. it's got your money. on the little rosewood trees grow extremely slowly they take at least 100 years to fully develop. and.
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fatten. on your work and. minimum. is going to offer you the money. but after a back breaking hour of trapping down this giant there's a problem the order is in young and. former talk and then when the hours are man and. the way to bring it down is to chop down the trees around it it's estimated that for every 100000 precious trees chopped down half a 1000000 other trees are sacrificed to bring down and transport the valuable cargo
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i think thing. that's going to. pull. in the middle east will see the panic of. the tosk is enormous and robert changes tactics so if you give him a hearing up on it it is. going to get. chopping the tree at that height is proving increasingly difficult. that men will have to sweat and their money so far. in front i'm from your. hours the men past the x.
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around. the heat is overbearing. what's their hallmark in them living in the north are you. cool restaurant oh now that are for all the more talk to me look at all this won't go. under i mean everything short and eyes. your. moved out of like yours truly. after 4 hours the 1st part of the trunk gives way. but the branches are still travelling the top of the tree shadows so they try to put it down by force.
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but after another 6 hours robert decides to give up. without the rest of the tree trunk it won't bring in much money or there. any hope of bringing this tree down is disappearing so is the money it would fetch they have to start searching again but the roof of a tree has become so rare it's like finding a needle in a haystack. tree poaching is not the only extreme way to make a better living on the island some are willing to take even more risks. while madagascar is blessed with natural resources such as spices graphite and coal one particular resource has knew it thousands to this mining town of and so on. this town sprang up in just
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a few months attracted by the promise of easy money more than $10000.00 people live crammed together in extreme poverty most of the stones they dig up are worth just a few dollars however a large a very pure fire can fetch as much as 5 or $6000.00 more than $100.00 times madagascar has minimum wage thousands to go away with the same dream the lucky ones might find the smallest stockpiles. bacco and massey used to be famous the 2 brothers left their job in hopes of striking it rich and building a better future for themselves but their entire fortune from now is this small cabin just 5 square meters shed by the 2 families with their wives and children 7 people all together. i thought and i thought it was a high. land like thing that like. any out
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down by the fish up tonight but the. shepherd and i. chatted and got on. they let champ need to cut out the mission damage to pay not to mention me at all. events report as i am and it's my long time and i'm beyond it down as i man how do you suck it up a bit about how we have all. the brothers work for a miner who owns his own mine their pay is less than $2.00 a day if they do find a stone they get a percentage of the sale. monetary time but they are still run over with. that eva. and what good are the monolith. and i mean i. only let.
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the money rob. see. but finding some is not easy. bacco massey and others can tunnels barely 50 centimeters high 30 meters below the ground. beneath which you. see to move all the structure. if you must. try. to control it through a test. strips. out of the on the top and the farmhouse now maliki's negotiations have borne the cabinet and. both up all the time of the mile
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and a half hour to. the early. she's on a fashion arm tarnished. a multivitamin lambing along as a bizarre how did santa fall but my mother told me about arming. the common man out of all things. conditions down here are excruciating it's a constant 40 degrees celcius making this whole feel like an oven. to 3 legged animals. hoping going on the compound could have been writing this book. it's also dangerous many have lost their lives in search of the precious stone.
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that was. from my model. mile from my samples in the live. footage she gave me on the. script in my mom is a young child. 30 meters below ground oxygen is. none of the my food proper ventilation systems fresh as provided by the men's and. it's basic but it works most of the time. and importantly it costs very little.
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the problem is the tube is barely 25 meters long and doesn't reach. 0. i mean that on the council i'll talk about. john the time but still the last 10 years i met up with all of the work i'm on to them stuff like doing it for the last bag could have cost them their lives. month old. baby done a lot about the fun not the money. that they come.
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from. or the i life fruit of danger and all fun less than $2.00 a day. off to more than a week in the jungle robert and his men still haven't found a rosewood tree that's big enough. running out of supplies they will soon need to head home but today determined not to return empty handed a few months earlier the army have chased them from the forest and they have to abandon a rosewood tree trunk they are now looking for the tree. because
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you are left with that by the cattle and. while the who is smaller than they had hoped this one trunk will get them enough money to get them by for a few months f.-i such as it is a funny thing is if the heart of the ending of book causing is a modern monster suggests a baby of optimising. the trunk weighs about $100.00 kilos transporting wood principle depends on the length of the rope so much. when in the cause of a good thing a thought on its own singing. but comedy to the zing busselton because using my bottom this ng. just so long to. rebut. them to any syrians exactly. vocal. than you or i love to see
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you for the victim live as a pretty in love. in. the trunk needs to be taken to the river 30 kilometers away but getting it down hill is a very risky part of the journey the danger is that their legs get snagged in the rope. so most of the men are not coming. up. an important role in the book are going on d.v.d. and we are going to mock them out. ok got it all the more boring go into the woman. she had and now this is our moonlit flesh and i'll body let the thing that we love i love i mean anything is evil we. took up with that fact that the other john she went off being
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a lot of other modern woman them all down so out it came out again that. no one knows for sure how many are killed in the process of smuggling precious wood robert estimates there are at least 3 fatalities again. from. a club. of. jurors in the g.g. and i got. cheers and jeers and then that's he's done nothing. wolf agendas in case you haven't just because you don't want to 2 years and that's going to come on of course is it. grew over you. you. know how about a story. like. this one knowing. it
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exhausted they'll spend the night here and their white clothes. all of them aching after the day's exertions. w.v.u. put in a hole no one module will project. it out and take a beautiful. despite the soaking night crawlers and his companions have lost none that a timely fashion. to thank. well. come to the test because. it's taken nearly 30 hours to reach the river but the trip is far from over the head still in the rapids. this is the last leg of the journey for robert and his men and the most dangerous shooting the rapids with the trunk attached to some inner
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tubes. 2 men are in charge of the makeshift raft if they fall overboard $400.00 commuters a bruise where it will fall on top of that junk cars are just off the communion down when you fill up the total thank you to the 2 days in coney you got cars in color which is such as i mean if you think of going to 3 having it out you want to keep the fish you know is the pilot's. thank you thank you. thank you. thank you thank you thank you the 1st rapids you know dismisses his copilot who apparently isn't paying my child thank you.
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thank. the pilots and say oh my special killing them is something wrong with the cars i mean i think that's someone bought somebody look like they're accusing. the wrong. after is virtually uncontrollable. iraq has shattered his paddle and he uses his hands to slow down the law of. the waters a bait and should know can look for another paddle. the
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modification a building in the tradition in the many colors that she. doesn't. it's taken 5 hours to travel down ruka. the others will now take the wood as far as mechanics of using the animals on the continent but. once the trunk is in the canoe it just needs to be had and. the wandering rules i mean to me show measuring these. traits of when you're going to eat and when the lack of being there and i like a very good thing and i'm in and on the. tear out that
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