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tv   Risking It All Madagascar  Al Jazeera  January 12, 2021 6:30am-7:01am +03

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glenn. glenn. glenn. glenn. glenn. leg. thank you. it's. the tiny village of tundra deep in madagascar last primeval jungle. the people who live off the land hunting fishing and farming. as there are few paying jobs money is scarce. because they are there much. to choose from musharraf's out for them the.
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market tell you you can plan their life. and also doing any and some of the facets stuff that you have. to do 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 rules which i read and true. 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 have banned all rosewood
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logging. ahead lies a 9 day journey where robert and the other smugglers will seek out foul and carry a ruse would treat while evading police and navigating madagascar's unpredictable rivers and forests. and untangle of the. big. reaction. but it's not only the police they have to avoid marauding thieves have also been attracted to the area. that i'm afraid i'll walk away in the mood to. have i think that will long be done by the. account of the bugs me
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because this is not. saying go i'm cool. understanding in their own meaning that for the full bloom what will i be looking like indian albertville i don't step on one. contender a man. carrying packs wing as much as 50 kilos and barefoot the group also has to negotiate a demanding jungle. was on a monday. after a harrowing 2 day track the group spots another truck because. robert is worried
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that he may be carrying the last of the roof of the trees from the area. to come on up the mccann might. be dumped on the midterms when out to. visit with its mates when i got off with a function a year. and then she will mention the lap in a fashion she didn't like using a discussion can outlast us like a singer. i'm not. 6 days deep into the forest robert and his men have found their treasure. and. 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. i think. is going your money. so let's cut down on the little rosewood trees grow
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extremely slowly they take at least 100 years to fully develop. point 9.5 and. in your new book are. men i'm not. going to offer you the morning battling it out. if i can say. no thanks. but after a backbreaking hour of trapping down this giant there's a problem the organising in young men is when you are in danger when we're talking and then when the hours on bond. the way to bring it down is to chop down the trees around it it's estimated that for every 100000 precious
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trees chopped down half a 1000000 other trees are sacrificed to bring down and transport the valuable cargo addict thing. that's going to. local poor poor and then. ending with all the panic. room. the tosk is enormous and robert changes tactics so if you give him a hearing up on it it is. he's got the insulin it automatically. chopping the tree at that height is proving increasingly difficult. the men will have to sweat and their money so far. in front i'm from your.
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hours the men past the axe around. the heat is overbearing. words therefore marking them being in the north. restaurant oh now that are for all more talk me through what you call. this one cure. i mean everything is order now as. to. your. money out of like yours truly. after 4 hours the 1st part of the trunk gives way. but the branches are still trafficking the top of the tree fabric so they try to pull it
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down by force. that's off to another 6 hours robert decides to give up. without the rest of the tree trunk it won't bring in much money or they. have. any hope of bringing this tree down is disappearing so is the money it would fetch they have to start searching again but the rosewood tree has become so red 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 cold one particular resource has new of thousands to this mining town of and so on.
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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 who 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
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a high commission could go to me. like think i like. any out down but that's the shop tonight but the. shop did and i. chatted and got a. they let champney to get out of mission damage to pay not to mention me at all. events report as i remember it seem a long time and i'm beyond it down as i know how do you suffer up a bit about how we have all. the brothers work for a miner who owns his own mine that pays less than $2.00 a day if they do find a stone they get a percentage of the sale. monetary time of the money over with. that eva.
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and what good are the monolith. and i mean i. only let. money rob. but finding stuff is not easy. bacco massey and others can tunnels barely 50 centimeters high that he needs his below the ground. beneath the sea. to move all the structures one. if you must. try. to control. attention to.
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the absolute on the top and the farmhouse now maliki's negotiations have borne the cabinet and. try both the time of the mile and a half hour to. the early. our. own fashion arm candy. a multivitamin lambing along us and this somehow it's hanging onto power the number of the bomb and bombing. the common man out of all things. that my. condition down here are exposed the tank it's a constant 40 degree celsius 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
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lives in search of the precious stone. that was it. from my model. modify my samples in the live. footage she gave me send it. to script in my mom is a young child. 30 meters below ground oxygen. none of the miners kind of food proper ventilation systems fresh provided by the men. 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. well. not by me but on the council i'll talk about. john the time but still the last 10 years i mess up all the work and i'm on to them stuff like doing it for the last bag could have cost them their lives.
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month old. baby don't look the much the fun not the money. that the girl will have. from. the birth of my life fruits with 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 picking off. running out of supplies they will soon need to head home but to their determined not to return empty handed a few months earlier the army had chased them from the forest and they have to
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abandon a rosewood tree trunk they are now looking for that tree is a. cousin in that you. could buy your life 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 after such as it is a funny thing is if the heart of the ending of book causing them are modest and suggests a baby of optimising. the trunk weighs about $200.00 kilos transporting would principally depends on the length of the rope so much. when today because of a good thing a thought on its own singing. but comedy to these english cars using my bottom this ng. just so long to. rebut.
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them to any syrians exactly. vocal. than you or i love to see exactly for the victim left as i mean it looks like. 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 to cook argument on d.v.d. we are going to mock them out. ok got it all the more boring go into the room. gave out and now this is our moon lit for us
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and our bodies like the way we love i love i mean that meeting is over with a little talk with. dr phil the other john she went 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 night club. of. jurors in the g.g. and i got. cheers if you didn't 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 what is it. grew over you. you. know how
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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. god i was saying this is. the ony he needs to go to school and then have the monks in the swimming covered one 3rd of the journey. 6
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ahead. exhausted they'll spend the night here and the white clothes. but one of them a king up to the dais exertions. w.v.u. put in a whole lot. more project. it out and take a beautiful. despite the 2nd night and his companions have lost none that a timely fashion. i do thank. you well because of the test because. it's taken nearly 30 hours to reach the river but the trip is far from over the head still in
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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 $400.00 commuters a bruise which 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 gazing tony causing color which is arch as any fifty's in kind of on the trail bring it out if you want to keep the fish you know is the pilot's. thank you thank you. thank you. thank you
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thank you the 1st rapids you know dismisses his copilot who apparently isn't paying my child thank you. thank if our son a little piloting say oh my my special killing them is something wrong with the cause was i mean i think that's someone bought somebody look like they're accusing . the wrong. off to is virtually uncontrollable. iraq has shattered his paddle and he uses his hands to slow down the law of.
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the waters a bait and should know can look for another paddle. the modification a building in the tradition in the many colors that she. doesn't. it's taken 5 hours to travel down river. after. the others will now take the wood as far as mechanics of using the fingers on the continent but. once the trunk is in the canoe it just needs to be had and. the molding roots i mean she was showing measuring these. traits of when you're going to eat
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and when the lack of being there and i like a very good thing and i mean in the end on the. tear out that this just aren't out there yet smuggling is in danger in the forests of madagascar and the authorities lack the means to stop the train but for these men the search for the ruins work is the best way to earn a living but. the venezuela colombia border has become a stomping ground for trespassers. as desperate people transgress an illegal passage. to feed an emerging field trafficking markets. we follow that perilous journey unguarded through the line of fire. risking it all. venezuelan colombia. on al-jazeera.
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