goal of the global community but what's the reality on the ground education for all d w's multimedia special relates personal stories and highlights extraordinary projects the world over to find out more on the internet g.w. dot com education for all. changers and while. venture of china the trip by airplane seventeen thousand kilometers in six weeks breathtaking landscape. cricket experience. such a small percentage of clubs throughout china starting february twenty seventh the.

bias then in the beginning but one plus something there was nothing on. just darkness and silence alone in the one thousand one day easing the birds began to sing and the big trees fell to earth. little morning in the morning biz mundell tribe on 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 jake up on the. right i'm a chieftain from sample one new guinea and then embassador for the forest. i travel the world with a message for everybody. my forest is under threat and if we don't do something humankind will time.

soon there will be no going back. one plot in. london 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 on the. wall. i'm going to build my tribe 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 doubling basile you know what months of it meant you says what the white man invented maps for looking under 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 existed since

day one are called what europe agenda for a miti for a white man calls them virgin forests because they're untouched running on one with a become very rare and now only exist in the amazon basin the congo basin and here and couple in new guinea will abandon them. oh much because human beings are always leaving their mark. this is a 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. and my favorite. the bird of paradise on me but i think. it will be raw animal but the biggest of them not because a rare bad tempered and villager a loner himself who can kill a human being with its claws. and how to one don't think of the wrong man we call this most dangerous of all jungle creatures journey or didn't jedi whites call it the castle wearing that's what it is. and good good gun free 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

for our forefathers hatched from the egg of a cassowary. was a man who some like him i know every know can crash every brook every branch and every leaf of the forest he was. me apparently the trees produce the oxygen we prefer to look to be honest i'm not good at these things you play you'll have to ask the scientists or research our planet me middle but i see my forest breathing every morning. this is what most of the big white man who keeps writing things in his notebook to look important as my french friend mark goes you're lost i'm through when i met him

he had long hair and that's a long time ago and i was i'm up and i'm now with his bald head he looks like a hand. just like me who knows 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 wonder mutt that's why we're accompanied by a film crew. here and francois are using all kinds of unusual cameras to help me tell my story. to us the forest is like a supermarket with everything we need to live. through root seeds leaves mushrooms he can all kinds of edible and otherwise useful plants.

need he like the nickie leaves that stimulate the circulation and relax the muscles after a long hike through the forest. or rotten poems. 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 forms disgusting but to me they're no different to posters or snails. all our people like them in. this forest was left to us by our ancestors. for generations so that we

too would find plenty of food here. this is the way i'm doing this is my tree. my father planted it when i was born three nani 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 what they had to. make up just like me. which of us will die first.

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

the new bride while you watch this film more than one hundred fifty big trees will be felled in my homeland that makes many thousand per day the wind monday. is a mad mismatch what it 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 a contact smuggled us into one of the forestry operations. roger are they cutting down trees here that's what you need go or none that i see now in the back up that might mean i'm aware yes for five years now. if i don't get that. all this is a storage area and them down ok. be quite careful with

a drone pier we can't afford to be caught. so you question any shoot up that high you know keep the windows closed i'm not so the boss is concious message and he moved as soon as we're out of the storage area i'll take you to the work has my me and the village with a london slip them and i'm going to visit with the i'm going to. ok roger know where he's so nobody will see us on anything i often ask for permission but they always refuse to show me. they don't want to see what they're doing here is on what he also wants if you think you. can look on the balcony i must be one of the bosses. don't we seem to now are out of the storage area and we can talk to the lumberjacks and papa grow out of the point come on i did before. the recession in pigeon proper grown is a very important word in me in their native land owners. our forests valleys and

mountains traditionally belong to the clans who have to give their approval to forestry adin i've been you know you know mostly for he. played for his. love of anonymous and me a month but it's also papa grant natives like me who work for the timber companies and since on they operate chainsaws and drive the bulldozers miss the only way they can make a living. they sell their trees and even fell them themselves for a meager wage but how can i resent them they don't want to live like animals on the muslim or. are

grown woman they're hired by foreigners from malaysia the philippines or indonesia as. we call them kong caldwell's as they're in charge we carry out their orders there's a man i'm good dear foreman 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 me real well the movie. long one day every day the chainsaws eat their way through the tree trunks like rock but. when they fall the trees let out a great cries of pain as if they were saying goodbye. you'll. never make you sad to knock down all these trees yeah.

i must and yes sometimes i decided to drive because we thought a lot of trees and when peace huge trees fall they also damage the trees around the me never do like a so all these i have had to do like nine just aren't you glad to have this work. i didn't make it of course and it means i can earn my family's keep snow by a muslim said to me i need it and you know you have to survive and with all this work you would go hungry. you know i'm going to be in the gate my understand is i'm glad as a new president and. 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 lying as in phoenix they fell the trees and pay us peanuts one thousand two thousand. five thousand kina one channel five doesn't get a cent there's

a company knows that over eighty every move like you know. they destroyed everything but did not spend a cent on the new clinic school oh pretty. oh many don't you know you know what and we have nothing to show for it by that of most of us are all forest is gone out of us and we got nothing for it to be movement of all that all of absolutely nothing that really bright i'm going to miss not know what. when she was on the here and all one one the problem is that a few educated. people sign the contracts without getting the locals permission. and when we complain the malaysian companies just bribe our own police. then they come and arrest us and scare us. that's the problem. we've got other officers so often but the police were already waiting nonstop he

didn't like them like all this and. you've always embraced rumi 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 really. but i understand you. if we allow these firms to destroy our forests we must think about what will happen to our children and. they will have to settle on the lands of another try to avoid starvation that will be the result by the something like around you so you. know you mean we're standing by need to treat it protects us from the sun. and move. on in the government and its shape is

good for us. and without it you would have nowhere to go to live in peace i'm heartless and dumb i look i gave. him peace the trees that were knocked down are taken away from the tribal areas of the papa ground them on special trucks called zegers sort of minerals i mean but i have no idea what cigarette 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. listen up it's a tree graveyard as mud mud run the way. mark

come here. stand in front of us it is it well. i want to measure this tree. now you know. look it reaches up to your ears. and didn't do well. trees this thick red all know somebody. who had these techno trees this pecker very rare in france is underway and when they want it anyway of history is one of the oldest in the world but in the way it may have been the first tree of all time lows is that maybe it was the father of all trees. we can plant new trees but with climate change and environmental damage they'll never get so big you want to. know more trees like this. how old do you think it is it is most said it must be seven or eight hundred

years old that they will tell the tree that is as old as the earth itself just to sell it to china or else i mean the. human will not move them our children and grandchildren beginning will never get to see a tree like this all of them visit on the way to now what do you see there while i get your camera. it will be think american eagle. ok deserve it don't smile no this is serious this might be the last big tree on the planet anyway one on me what it was on i want to take a photo for future generations will not run generosity. he's my don't know got me. for us and i'm a son of the forest so i do not feel like smiling you're a white man you can be happy. one one thousandth amongst the huge trunks are loaded onto cargo ships and in our

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

and the web right you know me they fell our creams and load them on to ships. but you have no idea where they're going and what will happen to them. some didn't you mess with this film is about him i don't do that on the. trains are transferred into the hold of the ships. nowadays there are strict controls to make sure timber is from legal sources are timber is brought to regulator 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. know never no one but i wasn't on. someone else not even then they send these things to new zealand australia i mean america not your own. they're trading in our trade. business run them do a brilliant. don't know much. people from the. past thirty five tina's for us only to cubic metre of wood is that a fair price. let me borrow money many are simple people i cannot tell. or why companies trick us many not. solid cubic metre of my boat is worth more than

twelve hundred cleaners on the world market but they only pay on thirty five kilos and thirty five in other. characters probably can. not a blonde if they should be helping our country to develop a woman and make decent contracts modern men would not give them so they hide the truth or because otherwise you would not be allowed to sell our lumber deliberate or do. you like everyone here i sell my trees to the malaysians couldn't our government favor companies that help us to develop our country and our community in country not only the also the morrow there are international certification programs that oblige lumber companies to contribute to the development of the region where they fell their trees. are by and given they were not only the proper ground benefit. if schools and hospitals are built everyone benefits from the sales of our trees and you are by interested in buying their way.

wondrous on 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 bank the proper ground don't like to admit it tory. eight hundred nine hundred one you know the companies pay us big money. one hundred thousand two hundred thousand or three hundred thousand pinas. but the people make nothing out of it. the men marry new wives and live like kings some spend millions of kenya zombie in. it's the same with all landowners here and you. must you see we land ownership take responsibility and spend the money wisely on

building solid houses sending our children to school investing in our future. helping these streams are a gift from the heavens. and we should use them sparingly just not. giving them a block. over the hump everywhere in my country and when the environment is under threat boston in the old days our land was protected by the constitution and common law

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

to check whether they are here legally selling lumber which i'm right we are not the only province where the s.l.a. be altered banned and the malaysians can't just cut down all the trees and fill their pockets at our people's expense and you want to run one of making big money on the books and sixty percent most lowlife 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 province. so if i want to carry out a little inspection mission. right now there's going to little control in most of the provinces the little business idea 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 law voiding the payment of texas they don't build anything dismembered little infrastructure they leave their de forest that area.

that is these trees that provided that they breed with these trees with forests the will would not have the fresh air that they do now you see yes they want to preserve these but they're not willing to common losses in any way it's not yes the people in the countryside are poor and can't defend their forests or if they get fifty kino's their eyes widen and they're happy because they can live for another day not all hope in my not wanting something you don't know about the origin of the . government is failing because in these areas they're slow development so the people are so stopped off development that they're willing to give a little bit away so a few of us what i will what's happening we have to link up with people in the village just like chiefs and then work with them and say look the. it's time to take action to protect olenda not future this processing plenty of we have allowed

it to stay you know parisian course they have downstream processing ok they're not shipping our problems but i found out that they have belgian had been shipping out from time to time with an old mission. cut. to fit. some of. those the job on the job. they did during. good. bye goes through more prison. time this. must be something. else as you. sit. before you since you never know who thinks of them. so for the ride

to the. soul and you go so you have been. the case with most of the local groups. will be. a skilled workers to come and bring order plus what's well. what's your name. you turn chai ok from malaysia also. no possible possible ok come have ok we'll see you know ok. you have your boss well i

just like you you're all king and you're also. obvious oh. and are you training any of our local staff on what. we think. the problem is that many of these people who deal with limit requirements the work permit says that they have 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 i'm going to write for any of you go to teach anything. about it learn nothing so move on turning. won't you go home you want to go and walk. it's probably unfair to ask you any questions because i'm curious i want to obviously before. i say something just.

so well. friend of leaving behind us who you don't think was for. most of our life. the companies that are coming in there are a pest they have no consideration for people all the environmental the future when they see a tree or they see is a good big one but the dream is to profit to the bank to. get isabel on the go get a job closed all timber operations in order a province this is the last one and what its days are numbered. and the my country is poor and we want a development we have few roads money not bundled me wonder carry jew for we inaugurated a new bridge connecting

a remote forest area with the road network said it. hit the british government and i'm putting myself in a bridge between the world of the white man and our work times on saturday humankind's biggest worry is climate change so you may the whole world is looking for solutions you don't have been sometimes in so you mean we cannot do much ourselves but we have to take care of our forests you should always remember that not involving bush. certainly supported to do with room for research constructed bowl electronic if i could put it. on

a very good. time is the real friends on our trip to france. i wanted to see the forest so not detain . it's not a version for our if like we have it on booze or use one of the biggest planted forests in europe i realize that the white brown also has a lot of would like to and i was astonished at how it's harvested oral was also really more your money to fund your piece to me you. are full of i'd be delighted to show you our trees after all we're both foresters so that for us to you at the other end of the world and me here is one thing you want to miss where similar one could be your father or grandfather planted these trees for you and i inherited the forest from my ancestors born to run in them but it's exactly the same possum so

you may want to but i thought you could just sit here if you plant trees like corn on my you brought up by mean big bust to. me 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 calling our trees. if there's anyone watching this film who can explain that to me please do. this is the section forests and miscellaneous. here it's all about planting and here it's about timber energy and mechanized operations. and we did you. know i'll show you the different kinds of plants that grow in our key ten i don't do to supply these plants and trees are all used for different purposes each for example is good for making furniture and sweet chestnut for parquet floors.

so these are the trees your plants so free. 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 get the it's a lot of trees. it's a. real good link like these. ok. all of. yes and no one would offer where renewing the forest here through reforesting we are obliged by law to plant new trees within five years of clearing. and there was nobody in 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 of grass roots in the grass. talking about the oil palm. in many coastal areas of. the rainforest was replaced with huge plantations where the locals were. not and i

did mine also. after the harvest in the fruits are pressed to make the most widely used oil in the world. there's palm oil and chocolate cookies and many other products at a plantation in europe on debt i met a man from my area and. i. soon brought in both from the mountains nice to see you used up and you seem to be doing well. had a bit you're making good money brought all but i didn't want to farm my easy money in a dry work. yes i'm happy i earn one hundred cane a day and i have a house with electricity and running water. one hundred kilos a day one hundred the rest. was

a like here before at all jungle. yes. there was a big forest tales. that i had patients came and destroyed the forests of throughout the region. if we do not protect our remaining forests we will never again see the kind of your wearing on your head and opening up oh yes we must preserve our virgin forests companies must help us to develop sustainably so that the poor benefit. will disable them study. easy to find a balance in the me i'm by you me. oddball for a minute for us some of the destroyed forests and replaced by palm oil plantations with which we earn money but it's at the expense of natural diversity birds of

paradise cassowary and other species are disappearing and more all that's left of the mill whispered. oh man by my friends you you mean hi you me you are the we all love the forest one one mind but we're also contributing to its destruction. we pop a ground for all our trees for a handful of keenness for their kong kong make a huge profit selling them all and the rest of the world buys our wood to keep their feet warm by the way don't let me one from didn't i'm just a tribal chieftains from popular new guinea but i've come here to warn the world or the when all the trees have disappeared beneath the people will die too. well so

only we can prevent the end of the world when all there will be is silence that side in darkness. there is. anyways at full speed. anyway shiny. but always on the move. mostly today and in the future. thirteen dollars. earth

a home for saving global oil deals tells stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world like to use to protect the climate and boost green energy solutions to inspire people to take action on global ideas on t.w. . with each passing day of the continuing conflict in syria more and more children fear their future may be fading away. with every classroom damaged or destroyed with every child witnessing the horror of war every family fleeing the violence we can't risk losing an entire generation of children to death fear and despair. because they are the future of syria. meet the germans new and surprising aspects of license culture in germany. u.s. american keep losing take a look at germany this increasing use of their traditions from everyday lives and

language in this time of. young good. looking guy i d w dot com meet the german. pro syrian government forces have entered the region in northwestern syria this comes as turkey continues its assault on the kurdish controlled enclave the syrian forces are said to be helping a kurdish militia fend off turkish troops raising the prospect of a wider escalation that of other. also in syria government backed airstrikes in eastern good to have killed more than two hundred fifty people since sunday observers described widespread just.