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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 they must build. cities from russia south from them the. little man the. team you can find their life. and also doing any and some of that it's 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 rob it was fired the game keeper has now become a coach he smuggles groups which i read and truman. play all different and i don't . need the all laughing laughing all the savvy need for 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 have banned all rosewood logging. ahead lies a 9 day journey where robert and the other smugglers will seek out fell and carry

a rosewood treat while evading police and navigating madagascar's unpredictable rivers and forests. and a long time going to be. a big boon reaction. but it's not only the police they have to avoid marauding thieves have also been attracted to the area so i. know that other people are local in nice but move the. public in general and london by they. are down the bug me and the bus yeah. yeah i'm saying go on cool. foundation and act in their own meaning they were there for whom one of the would

be locked up but indian public hello don't get on well you. can find them are. carrying packs weighing as much as 50 kilos and barefoot the group also has to negotiate a demanding jungle. he was born in london. after a harrowing 2 day track the group spots another truck because. robert is worried that he may be carrying the last of the roof of the trees from the area. a day to come on up the baton might. be dumped in town and get them to come out to. visit

with each one and then i'll go for the fountain a year from when little atlanta and. a fresh like using the discussion can outlast us i can sing in a sky on a low. sixty's 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.

foreign. workers. minimum. is going to go for the morning. 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 invaluable cargo 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 to give him a hearing. then it automatically. chopping the tree at that height is proving increasingly difficult. that men will have to sweat and their money. so far. away from iman yasser they will only. hours the men toss the axe around. the heat is

overbearing. words therefore mocking them living in the north can you. not. cool restaurant oh now that out for all the more talk and look at all this one cure. i mean everything short and eyes. your. money out of like yours truly. after 4 hours the 1st part of the trunk gives way. but the branches are still traveling the top of the tree. so they try to pull it down by force.

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 rough fight and coal one particular resource has new and thousands to this mining town of in so long. as . this town sprang up in just 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 down by the fish up tonight but the fish up to the night. chapman got.

ok let's jump need to get out mission damage today not to mention me at all. to report as i man would seem a long time and i'm beyond it down as i man how do you suffer 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. filing and what good are the monolith. and i mean i. only live. on a money grab. but finding stuff

is not easy. bacco massey and others work in the finals barely 50 centimeters high that he needs his below the ground. it's enough. to move on. from the. thought if you must. try. to control. through the test. strips. out a solution that bond that the time has now maliki's negotiations have gone to god doesn't. try both the time of the mile and

a half hour. which the early. has old fashioned charm tarnished. a multivitamin lambing long as a bizarre how did santa fall when i bought the poem and bombing. the farm from among a lot of baltic. to my. condition down here are excruciating it's a constant 40 degrees celsius making this whole feel like an oven. to 3 legged animals. colleague i hope i'm going in with some confidence in writing this book. it's also dangerous many have lost their lives in search of the precious stone.

that was. from my model. model from my samples in the live. footage she gave me on the. script in my mom is a little bit on the civil. side although part of. 30 metres below ground oxygen is. none of the mine known as kind of food proper ventilation systems are fresh as provided by the men's and you know it's not. it's basic but it works most of the time. and importantly it costs very little. the problem is the tube is barely 25 meters long and doesn't reach. much more

again you. do it. on god's way of. showers we all saw signs of ouch book that i've been on long seen mom woke. up by midnight on the console to. john the top of the world there is a mess up of all of the amount of the stuff in the fall the last bag could have cost them their lives. often. the fun not the money. that's going to go. for.

them. in the eye life fruit of danger and all for less than $2.00 a day. after 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 they're determined not to return empty handed so a few months earlier the army had chased them away from the forest and they have to abandon a rosewood tree trunk they are now looking for that tree is a. cousin and that you. guys are left with that guy that got away.

while the hole 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 often work isn't as if the heart of the ending of book izing is a modern monster suggests a baby of optimising. the trunk weighs about $300.00 kilos transporting wood principally depends on the length of the wrote. it. when in the cause of a good thing a thought on its own might act as any. gump at comedy to these english with some because using my bottom this ng. just so long to. rebut. them to anything she runs exactly. global. you or i love you to the

you for the victim live as i believe in love. 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. on them up and want to cook are going on d.v.d. and we are going to mock them out. ok got a couple more and more go into the woman. he had and now back to his moonlit to lessen our bodies like the way we love our love a minute meeting is over with a little talk with. the other john she got them off being 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. well for goodness sake age of just because you don't want to 2 years and that's going to come on a foot is a. good. go over you. know how about a story. like. this one knowing. it was all finding out it. was all.

done. by night. i was all fine thank god. god god god. god god god god. god. i'm going to say this is. you. know only the weeks to go to school and then have the monks in the swimming covered one 3rd of the journey. 6 ahead. exhausted they'll spend the night here and their white clothes. all of them taking

off to the day's exertions. w.v.u. put in a whole new module will project. it out and take a beautiful. despite the 2nd night in his companions have lost none that's a timely fashion. i do thank. you cut 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 tubes. 2 men are in

charge of the makeshift raft if they fall overboard $200.00 kilos of rooms which will fall on top of that junk cars are just off the communion ground when you fill up the total thank you to the 2 days in coney causing tallow which is out doesn't mean if you think i've done a trailing it out you want to keep. thank you know is the pilots. thank you thank you thank you thank you. thank you. thank you thank you thank you the 1st rapids you know dismisses his copilot who apparently isn't being my child thank you.

thank if our son a little piloting say oh mom especially the family company bringing up the cause was the main thing that's come on by our somebody looks like they're using. the right. it's virtually uncontrollable. a rock has shattered his paddle and he uses his hands to slow down the law of. the woods as a bait and you know can look for another paddle. in a building in the condition in the many colors that she. doesn't.

it's taken 5 hours to travel down river. but. 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 moldering rules i mean she really shows what a measuring these. traits are of when you're going to enjoy it and when the lack of being there and i like a very good thing and i'm in and out of me. a lot out that is just hard out man yet smuggling is in danger in the forests of madagascar

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