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by staying in the beginning like one plus something there was nothing going on no could not just darkness the black and silence lonely one man one day easing the birds began to sing and the one in the big trees fell to earth. in the morning in the morning biz mundo that i brought the first members of my tribe awoke. they lived for many generations at one with nature in the forests and trees. nambla me my name is monday j. kapunda. i'm a hooley chieftain from temple one new guinea and in embassador for the forest one i travel the world with a message for everybody. my forest is under threat and if we don't do something human kind will time.

soon there will be no going back. one plus. one day and this film is aimed at warning you of the disaster that will befall the world if we do not protect the earth's big trees. i'm going to build my club has always lived in the heart of one of the world's last great virgin forests. maybe you're not sure of our popular new guinea is when is doubling what months of admittance is what the white man invented maps for. you can see that my country lies north of australia in the pacific ocean. eatable in my language the top is in the ancient forests that have big sisters

since day one are called what europe agenda for a lady for a white man calls them virgin forests because they're untouched by the nine one with a become very rare and now only exist in the amazon basin in the congo basin and here in coppell in new guinea will abandon them. all much because human beings are always leaving their mark. this forest does not belong to me alone but to all creatures that live in it. not really include many beautiful and strange animals. and.

landed on his nose to them cannot be found anywhere else on the planet and like the tree kangaroo. the victoria crowned a pigeon and my favorite. the curse of paradise on me might have been. the right animal but the biggest of them not because a rare bad tempered and belligerent loner i'm sorry you can kill a human being with its claws time and stop to wonder i'm kinda done brian we call this most dangerous of all jungle creatures journey. jedi whites call it the castle wearing that's what. i'm good good gun for because it eats seeds and spreads them in its droppings and helps the

forest regenerate. then they regard as our ancestor generous and will do good for our forefathers hatched from the egg of a castle where i. was a man who some like him but the woman i know every know can crash every brook every branch and every leaf of the forest it was. me apparently the trees produce the oxygen we prefer to look to be honest i'm not good at these things you probably will have to ask the scientists to research our planet me but i see my forest breathing every morning. this is what my the big white man who keeps writing things in his notebook to look important as my french friend mark goes here boston through when i met him he had

long hair and that's a long time ago and it was a mob and i didn't know what his bald head he looks like and i had me just like me you know those and loves the forest. which he's been photographing for more than twenty years. says there are more species of flora and fauna in the rainforest of papua new guinea than in all of europe. the forest covers seventy percent of the land and it's home to more than twenty thousand species of plants fifteen hundred species of trees three thousand species of insects and more than seven hundred fifty species of birds that makes it a vital part of the world's natural heritage. as this is a magic plant to seduce women. in france i'm underage as interpreted in his

homeland he teaches me about the secrets of the forest. me my mom out of the forest and to be honest i have no clue about filming one to much that's why we're accompanied by a film crew. here in france one are using all kinds of unusual cameras to help me tell my story this is studying. to us the forest is like a supermarket with everything we need to live. through root seeds leaves mushrooms he guns and all kinds of edible and otherwise useful plants . need to eat like the

new king leaves that stimulate the circulation and relax the muscles after a long hike through the forest. or rotten palms. which we call. stripped of its bark it makes for a very strong rope. my father taught me how to make this rope but he also showed me many delicious foods. like the poop or sago worm. i know you find these worms disgusting but to me they're no different to posters or snails so. all are people like them in. this forest was left to us by our ancestors. nurtured it for generations so that we

too would find plenty of food here. this is on the way into april me this is my tree. my father planted it when i was born three i was not born in a hospital but on the forest floor on a bed of leaves. the way to. grow up together i stayed small but the tree grew large even as a white beard. and got. me got just like me. which of us will die first. i don't know.

and. when i die. they'll bury me here with my family. and big brother. you feels good to hold you in my house. i mean i'm a child of the forest i might cry for the first time under a tree and i will die. if my forest still exists. you know i'm a witness and a bridge between cultures. to tell you that my forest is under threat. i want you to see with your own eyes by me.

the new blood while you watch this film more than one hundred fifty big trees will be felled in my homeland that makes many thousand per day in the wind monday. madness mountain one shows all the areas that have already been cleared and those for which permits have been issued your scientists reckon that by two thousand and twenty one half of my forest could be gone. in the province of sundown one of the worst affected and he's a contact smuggled us into one of the forestry operations. just roger are they cutting down trees here that's what you need go or not got dogs and i said no no that number you mean one will get yes for five years now. five i don't get that.

this is a storage area money down town ok. it was careful with the drawn pier we can't afford to be caught. so you question then if you don't got a night no keep the windows closed i don't know so the bosses can't see us as you know i mean he moved as soon as we're out of the storage area i'll take you to the work because me and the peanuts way that i don't slip them and i'm going to become a monk and i'm. ok roger no worries so nobody will see us on anything i often ask for permission but they always are a few martial me i know commonly they don't want to see what they're doing here is only you when you say one thing thinking you. can come to look on the balcony i must be one of the bosses you know me you seem to now are out of the storage area then we can talk to the lumberjacks and the papa grow out of the point come on out of the room. the vision in pigeon proper grown is a very important word meaning their native land owners. our forests valleys and

mountains traditionally belong to the clans who have to give their approval to forestry i do not deny you know maps. place for her. up of the nose on me a month but it's also papa grande natives like me who work for the timber companies stands on they operate chainsaws and drive the bulldozers with the only way they can make a living. they sell their trees and even fell them themselves for a meager wage but i resent them they don't want to live like animals on your neck. or. are

going there hired by foreigners from malaysia the philippines or indonesia. we call them cong call. us they're in charge we carry out their orders is a man and therefore men are not bad people just poor people or no living by knocking down our trees and i didn't miss foreman even let us film. the movie. long one day every day the chainsaws eat their way through the tree trunks like right by now i'm big when they fall the trees are cries of pain not even as if they were saying good bye to each of. you will. never make you sad to knock down all these trees.

yes sometimes i'm sad i'm going to do right because we've got a lot of trees and when a huge trees fall us they also damage the trees around but we never do anything so all new guy has had to do a nine different implant to have this word. then make it of course and it means i can earn my family's keep. snow by in-laws one of them to me i need. only you know you have to survive without this work you would go hungry. you know live in the. gate my understand this. new government in. so far the government has issued more than three hundred forestry permits nationwide about forty six million hectares of forest more than fifteen million

hectares are used by foreign firms that's a third of the total surface area it's like having a third of france invaded by bulldozers and chainsaws. usually the foreign firms are looking for two kinds of trees marable for floors and furniture and bent on car for plywood. they are lie as in phoenix they fell the trees and pay us peanuts one thousand two thousand. five thousand peanuts understand all five doesn't get the same. and

somebody knows that over. here in the now they destroyed everything but did not spend the sentiment clinics school or bridge. only thing when you know you know what we have nothing to show for it but i've noticed that the roads are forests gone out of us and we got nothing for it. absolutely nothing that really brought i'm not all know what. when i'm a citizen and we're here and we all one one the problem is that a few educated people sign the contracts without getting the locals permission people and when we complain the malaysian companies just bribe our own police. then they come and arrest us and scare us. well that's the problem. we've got other officers so often but the police were already waiting

nonstop didn't like them like all these rubber bullets. you've always roomy you know money here you know it's not fair they are our police not malaysia's they have the same skin color and hair as i do why do they defend the interests of the lumber companies and fight against us it's our own corrupt governments fault they should be kind and my people people room. but i understand you only if we allow these firms to destroy our forests we must think about what will happen to our children and we will. they will have to settle on the lands of another try to avoid starvation that will be the result of. this not something look around you so you pray for our way well you mean we're standing by need to treat it protects us from the sun city. and it's on in this government and its shape is good for

us. and without it you know not you would have nowhere to go to live in peace i'm had the scene down i'm not likely. to be nice the trees that were knocked down are taken away from the tribal areas of the papa ground on special trucks called figures sort of minutes i don't mean i have no idea what cigar means but i know where all these trucks are going. they're taking all the timber to the coast world be loaded on to ships. is it up it's a tree graveyard here is mud mud run do what. mark

come here. stand in front of this it is it well. i want to measure this tree. now you know. look it reaches up to your ears ok so kind of isn't isn't us. trees this thick i don't know somebody. but i just like no trees the speck are very rare and french is underway in winter that the way of history is one of the oldest in the world in the way it may have been the first tree of all time. is that maybe it was the father of all trees little we can plant new trees but with climate change and environmental damage they'll never get so big and want to. be no more trees like this. how old do you think it is doing

a musket is moss said it must be seven or eight hundred years old. they will tell the tree that is as old as the earth itself just to sell it to china. human will not move them our children and grandchildren beginning will never get to see a tree like this one of them does it on the way to know what you see there while i get your camera genetically it will keep you coming up to me go. ok this is a little bit don't smile no this is serious this might be the last big tree on the planet and the way you will not be what you want them i want to take a photo for future generations. nobody generosity. he's mine about me but for us and i'm the son of the forest so i do not feel like smiling you're a white man you can be happy. one one time once a month the huge trunks are loaded onto cargo ships and in our trees leave my

country and. we have you so you can fit more than three thousand trees on a single ship oh some we want to check that with the flying camera outside income of the eagle flight all said you know both. so young but it will. be no. papua new guinea has been the world's largest exporter of tropical wood since twenty fourteen every year almost five million solid cubic metres leave the country mainly in the form of unprocessed trucks the international community has introduced rules against illegal cutting. me nobody in my home country knows what happens to the wood. so mark and i showed the film to the public around no sun down.

am do when you know me they fell our cream and load them on to ships. but you have no idea where they're going and it will happen to them. some didn't that's what this film is about him i don't do that on the. trees or transferred into the hold of the ships. nowadays there are strict controls to make sure timber is from legal sources are timber is brought directly to china. malaysia a trader was secretly filmed admitting to making false claim i am not running away from the way. that. they are now. they chop up our wood and turn it into planks paper

boxes drawers chairs and much more. i wonder what they are not. one of them didn't make them wonder. well never no one but i wasn't one of these in my must. someone else how do they send these things to new zealand australia i'm an american on your own. they're trading in our trading. business. you know we don't know much. people from the far east. thirty five tina's for us only to cubic meter of wood is that a fair price. be wrong on many or simple people and cannot tell. or why companies trick us. a solid cubic metre of my boat is worth more than twelve

hundred cleaners on the world market but they only pay r.'s thirty five kilos and thirty five enough to. care about is probably. not about condit if they should be helping our country to develop and make decent contracts. give us what they hide the truth because otherwise they would not be allowed to sell our lumber. like everyone here i sell my trees to the malaysian. government favor companies that help us to develop our country in our community. there are international certification programs that oblige lumber companies to contribute to the development of the region where they felt their trees. were not only the proper ground benefit. if schools and hospitals are built everyone benefits from the sales of our trees under my brother and you are by interested in

by the way. one of the saddest thing for me is that we don't spend a little bit of money we get for our trees on our own development that's our own mistake and with the exception of hank the proper ground don't like to admit it laurie. people money company do with eighteen idea and it well but you know the companies pay us big money. one hundred thousand two hundred thousand three hundred thousand pinas. but the people make nothing out of it peanut the men marry new wives and live like kings some spend millions of kenya zombies we will it's the same with all landowners here and you. imply must be see will we land ownership take responsibility and spend the money

wisely on building solid houses sending our children to school investing in our future school. helping these streams are a gift from the heavens and we should use them sparingly. blessings gordon give him a block. from. her. over the harbor everywhere in my country when the environment is under threat. in the old days our land was protected by the constitution and common law. broke some

of the animals of the forest were our property that nobody could take without our permission. changed in two thousand and seven with a new law and called as a. that introduced a kind of leasing a system. originally it was intended to help the proper ground to develop agricultural projects but in reality it meant that kong kong were able to exploit our country and press ahead with deforestation. there were many demands for the abolition of the s.a.p.o. but the politicians weren't interested. nobody except the governor of auto province getting. son of an irishman union woman always wears black as a symbol of his green forest we call him and his bodyguards the men in black. like woman and today we're going to carry out a raid in. a company should already have stopped operations i want to check whether

they are here legally selling lumber. we are not the only province where the s.a.p.o. ban the malaysians can't just cut down all the trees and fill their pockets at our people's expense. sixty percent sixty percent of these people aren't even allowed to be here because they have no work permits our forests are being plundered throughout the country but not in our products. so if i want to carry out a little inspection mission. right know there's going to control in most of the provinces opus will he have to take whatever they want and they make enormous profits besides making the profits that they do on the sale of the team by delta and evading all voiding the payment of texas they don't build anything dismembered little infrastructure they leave them de forest that area. that he

does these trees that provides that they breed with these trees with forests the world would not have the friendship that they do now you see yet they want to preserve these bought them up willing to common law systems in any way. yes the people in the countryside are poor and county from their forests or do you think it fifty kino's their eyes wide now and they're happy because they can live for another day not all hope in my not wanting something that i'm about to stop them or you know to keep. his failing because in this area still slow development so the people are so stopped off development that they're willing to give away so few of us what i will what's happening we have to link up with our people in the villages . and work with them and say look it is time to take action to protect our land of my future this processing plant here we have allowed it to stay you know peroration

course they have downstream processing ok they're not shipping off from blokes but i found out that they have actually been shipping out from time to time without the no zero emission. cuts. to. their. this is the truman show. good. thing you're. good yes ok i've got a few more prison. time this. must be something. else as you. go forward as you know the only things with them. so far never lied to them.

so many others so good to hear you. leave those with those who believe the force. will be. a skilled workers to come bring all of us what's. what's your name. you turn chai ok from militia also who know boss want a spoke ok come have ok we see you know ok. you have your boss well i

just not maybe you're just talking and your. obvious oh oh oh what's what. and are you training any of our local stuff and want. to me. the problem is that many of these people who feel the world climate requirements and what climate says that death to provide training opportunities for citizen employees they never train anyone. they come and work and make money and don't train anybody and they go after my right not that any of you got to teach anything . and nobody has learned nothing so nobody's out of our. home we want to go on walk. it's probably unfair to ask you any questions because i'm curious i want to obviously rooting for. i see something just.

so well. but i thank you for us who you don't because you. know most of my life. the companies that are coming in there are a pest they have no consideration for people all the environment all the future when they see a tree or daisy is going to convert that dream into profit to the big. it is a one hundred closed all timber operations in order province this is the last one but it's days are numbered. to go. and implement countries poor and we want to development do we have few roads money in the one nine year old me one doesn't carry jew for we inaugurated

a new bridge connecting a remote forest area with the road network egoboo said it. hit the british are going to get it on because i myself am a bridge between the world of the white man and our work on saturday humankind's biggest worry is climate change so you me the whole world is looking for solutions you don't have in some doesn't in so you mean we cannot do much ourselves but we have to take care of our forests he should always remember that bob and bush. certainly supported to do with the church can or should it all electronic you'd like to put it. on

a very durable but if you talk. to. the news the real friends on our trip to france. i wanted to see the forests and not detain. is a boost it's not a version for our it is like we have it on booze or use one of the biggest planted forests in europe mommy i realize that the white bread also has a lot of woodley too and i was astonished at how it's harvested oral was also really mosiuoa but you know your piece to me you. are full but i'd be delighted to show you our trees after all we're both foresters so close to you at the other end of the world and me here is one thing you don't want to miss where similar ones going to be your father or grandfather planted these trees for you and i inherited the forest from my ancestors were born to run

a member of it's exactly the same place human one time i saw you just that here. you plant trees like corn on my you brought up by name big bust that i. don't mean no there's nothing bad about felling trees they've always grown and they're useful to people. well what if the white people have so many forests of their own why are they telling our trees a little bit as well me but if there's anyone watching this film who can explain that to me please do a billion cousin on. don't lie on the bus this is the section forests and miscellaneous skits over here it's all about planting and here it's about timber energy and mechanized operations and we can use it to just. do. now i'll show you the different kinds of plants that grow in ekiti. i don't do these plants and trees are all used for different purposes for example is good for making furniture and sweet chestnut for parquet floors just that you need the salad

you keep ok so these are the trees you planted sophie yourself but i mean when they go home but yes this is what maritime pines look like when they're small i'm going to order several thousand of them to reforest cleared areas. and you've got the mats a lot of trees. real good link like i would like to. ok. all of. all new. yes it was an awful where renewing the forest here through reforesting we were obliged by law to plant new trees within five years of clearing. there was no my home country foreign firms are destroying the forests without planning anything

afterwards they felt very old trees without thinking about the future at all. so they could have to do it is indeed very important to replace felled trees so. they're growing quickly. and i once wrote. in my country we also planted trees very many but only one time. it looks like a tough to the grounds. talking about the oil paul. in many coastal areas of. the rain forest was replaced with huge plantations where the locals work on. money

from. after the harvest of the fruits are pressed to make the most widely used oil in the world. palm oil and chocolate cookies and many other products on the plantation near but beyond that i met a man from my area and. i. see him in right in here you were both from the mountains nice to see you. you seem to be doing well. have been you're making good money brought all what i can do. is a money in a dry work. yes i'm happy i earn a hundred kina day and i have a house with electricity and running water. one hundred. one hundred d.

plus it. was a like your before and all jungle. yes. there was a big forest tales. that i had patients came and destroyed the forest through out the region. if we do not protect our remaining forests we will never again see the kind of your wearing on your head and. yes we must preserve our virgin forests companies must help us develop sustainably so that the poor benefit. discipline it's not easy to find a balance in the me and by you me. bob blow from it for us some of the destroyed forest service and replaced by palm oil plantations with which we earn money but it's at the expense of natural

diversity birds of paradise cassowary is another species are disappearing and all that's left are the milk his parents. my friends you you mean hi you me we all love the forest one man but we're also contributing to its destruction. people up on the run we pop a ground for all our trees for a handful of keenness for their kong kong make a huge profit selling them all in the rest of the world buys our wood to keep their feet warm while these are in the way we don't like me one privately i'm just a tribal chief than from pop or new guinea but i've come here to warn the world or the when all the trees have disappeared me the people will die too. also only we

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