you know it's interesting because of course iranian films of a long tradition here and so maybe the chances we could take on the golden bear i well find out thank you guys. understand in the beginning what one plus something there was nothing. just darkness and silence alone one man one day. the birds began to sing and the big trees fell to earth. well morning in the morning is monday but i brought the first members of my tribe a walk. and goes a little 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 temple one new guinea and embassador for the forest don't sub it 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 but in. 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 way back 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 what

he's doubling or what months of it making this 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 talk because in the ancient forests that have existed since day one are called what europe agenda friend that is for us white man calls them virgin forests because they're untouched to a blind man one with a become very rare and now only exist in the amazon basin the congo basin and here and people in new guinea lot of them in them. all must 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 pigeon and my favorite. the bird of paradise only. big animal but the biggest of them not a book is a rare bad tempered in by literate loner himself who can kill a human being with its claws time and stop i do wonder if you get on brian we call

this most dangerous of all jungle creatures jerry. jedi whites call it the cassowary 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 bloom but we regard as our ancestor generous and will do little for our forefathers hatched from the egg of a cassowary. was a man who said like him i know every nook and cranny 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 probably will have to ask the scientists to research our planet me a little but i see my forest breathing every morning.

this is what mine the big white man who keeps writing things in his notebook to look important as my french friend mark goes boston through when i met him he had long hair and that's a long time ago and it was a mob and i don't know what his bald head he looks like going to hand me just like me who knows and loves the forest. she'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. 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. any. amount 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 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 fruit seeds leaves mushrooms he comes in all kinds of edible and otherwise useful plants . need to eat like the nicky leaves that stimulate the circulation and relax the muscles after a long hike through the forest. or rotten poms who once recalled. 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 yours 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 i'm going to. this on the way i'm doing 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 has a white beard. and. me that just like me. which of us will die first. and. that's when i die. 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. to tell you that my forest is under threat. i want you to see with your own eyes by me. 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 a lantern on the. madness map 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 you know in the province of sundown one of the worst affected and

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 stucco but i see now in the back up that might mean well but yes for five years now. right out of it that. this is a storage area i need them down ok. be quite careful with a drawn pier we can't afford to be caught. so you must be done if you don't got a night no keep the windows closed i don't know so the boss is concious as you know he moved as soon as we're out of the storage area i'll take you to the web because i me and the village with an i don't slip them and i'm going to become one and i'm . ok roger no worries so nobody will see us i mean i often ask for permission but they always refuse to show me kong they don't want to see what they're doing here is a pony you want us to point something thank you. look on the balcony

i must be one of the bosses and now i'm going to do some tower out of the storage area and then we can talk to the lumber jacks and pop a grown up to one of them one i don't want. to be seen in pigeon proper ground is a very important word and their native land owners. our forests valleys and mountains traditionally belong to the clans who have to give their approval to forestry i didn't i didn't know you know i'm up for hay. playing and. a lot of them got most on me a month but it's also papa grant natives like me who work for the timber companies

him 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 how can i resent them they don't want to live like animals thanks thanks a lot one of their hired by foreigners from malaysia the philippines or indonesia as. we call them can call. us they're in charge we carry out their orders just a man i'm good dear foreman are not bad people just poor people who are not living by knocking down our trees. this foreman even let us film. the movie. long one one day every day the chainsaws into our way through the tree trunks like

rock band times i'm big when they fall the trees that are great cries of pain as if they were saying goodbye. you'll. never make you sad to knock down all these trees. and yes sometimes i sighed. because we thought of lots of trees and when peace huge trees fall us they also damage the trees around but we never do like you sold me and i do like nine different i'm glad to have this work. i did make it of course and what it is it means i can earn my family's keep it small by a muslim sending me i need some you know you have to survive and with all this work you would go hungry. i understand i was younger

than you but my thing. is. 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 core for plywood.

they are lions in fields they fell the trees and pay us peanuts one thousand two thousand. five thousand peanuts one channel five doesn't get a cent it was a company knows that. you know. they destroyed everything but did not spend the sentiment clinics school all preach. oh many think you know no one and we have nothing to show for it by or of those that are all forest is gone out of us and we got nothing for it to be with me but will go absolutely nothing to bring it right i'm going to lose nothing to what was left when it was he was a family here and we all want one the problem is that a few educated people signed the contracts without getting the locals permission i

would not want to go through and when we complain the malaysian companies just bribe our own police. and then they come and arrest us and scare us police what is being done well that's the problem. we've got other officers so often but the police are already way to stop needed gun gems like all these emphatic one if you go for one day. you know many here 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 cleaned our land and my people people really. are nearly. if we allow these firms to destroy our forests we must think about what will happen to our children mimic will . they will have to settle on the lands of another try to avoid starvation that

will be the result of. desire something look around you so you pray where are we now you mean we're standing many to tree that protects us from the sun through. us and it's on the image of wonder 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 headless in don i don't know if i go. in peace the trees that were knocked down are taken away from the tribal areas of the papa ground i'm on special trucks called figures sort of minutes i 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.

this it up it's a tree graveyard as mud mud round us. 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 so kind as in didn't you have trees this thicket on so. oh i just like old trees the spec are very rare and french isn't the way i am when you want that the way of history is one of the oldest in the world but in the way it may have been the first trio of all time was is that

maybe it was the father of all three little we can plant new trees but with climate change and environmental damage they'll never get so big and when i'm going to still be no more trees like this. how old do you think it is doing i am on my skin is moss said it must be seven or eight hundred years old. they don't tell the tree that is as old as the earth itself just to sell it to china with. human on top of them our children and grandchildren beginning they'll never get to see a tree like this one of them does it on the way to know what used to be there when i get your camera genetically it will seem to matter to me. ok i deserve it but don't smile no this is serious this might be the last big tree on the planet anyway why not me what you want i'm not i want to take a photo for future generations we're all new blood generous and. he's my i don't know got me bubble 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. 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 outside income eagle flight on second row boat. so you can be able. to keep making the same. 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 ground zero sundown. and the way you know me they fell our trees and load them on to ships. but you have no idea where they're going and it will happen to them. some didn't you mess with this film is about him i don't he said on the. trains are transferred into the hold of the ships. nowadays there are strict controls to make sure timbers from legal sources are temper is brought to regular china. malaysia trader was secretly filmed admitting to making false claims.

chop up our wood and turn it into planks paper boxes doors chairs and much more. i wonder what they are. well never know. when they send these things to new zealand australia america europe. they're trading. you know our tree. business. you know we don't know much. people from the

forest pay us thirty five keenness for us only to cubic metre of wood is that's a fair price oh. let me borrow money many people i 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 us thirty five keenness and thirty five. characters probably. 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 i'm. like everyone here i sell my trees to the malaysian. government favor companies that help us to develop our country and our community.

there are international certification programs that oblige lumber companies to contribute to the development of the region where they felt their trees. are by giving not only the proper ground benefit. if schools and hospitals are built everyone benefits from the sales of our trees on monday monday or by international by the way. one person 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 and that's our own mistake and with the exception of bank the proper ground don't like to admit it laurie. the money company gave you look we've got eighteen idea hundred one that you know the companies pay us big money. one hundred thousand two hundred thousand or three hundred thousand peanuts. but the

people make nothing out of it of peanut the men marry new wives and live like kings some spend millions of kenya zombies. it's the same with all landowners here and here. if you are must you see while we land ownership take responsibility and spend the money wisely on building solid houses sending our children to school investing in our future well going to school holiday camp helping you these trees are a gift from the heavens and we should use them sparingly just. blessings gordon give you a block. from .

over the harbor and everywhere in my country the environment is under threat. in the old days it 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 called s a b. that introduced a kind of leasing a system. it was intended to help the proper ground to develop agricultural projects but in reality it meant the kong kong were able to exploit our country and press ahead with deforestation. there were many demands for the abolition of. but the politicians weren't interested. nobody except a governor or a province getting. woman always wears black

as a symbol of his green forest we called his bodyguards the men in black. men in black . ok and i would like one of them today we're going to carry out a raid an oral bane of a company and should already have stopped operations i want to check whether they are here legally selling lumber some more books which i'm right we are not the only province where the s.a.p.o. else are banned and the malaysians can't just cut down all the trees and fill their pockets at our people's expense that you want to run a kind of want to make it big money and. sixty percent will slowly 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 ok. so if i want to carry out a little inspection mission. right now there's very little control in most of the provinces the little business what he had to take whatever they want and they make

enormous profits besides making the profits that they do on the sale of the team by their often evading law voiding the payment of texas they don't build anything dismember little infrastructure they leave there the forest that area. doesn't care that it is these trees that provide the hit that they breed with these trees with forests the world would not have the fresh air that they do now to see yet they want to preserve these but they're not willing to common losses in any way is not yes the people in the countryside are poor and can't defend their forests or do you think it fifty keen as their eyes widen and they're happy because they can live for another day not all hope in my not wanting something that i'm about the unity. government is failing because in these areas there's no development so the people are so stopped off development that they're willing to give all the way so few of

us what i will what's happening we have to link up with people in the village just like god gypsy up and work with them and say look the. it's time to take action to protect our land in the future this processing plenty of. you know permission. downstream processing ok then we'll shipping all problems but i found out that they have actually been shipping out from time to time in all our mission. to. get. the job done. good. thing you're. good at it but i digress through operating.

in this. space under the bus if you. still. don't want to see that you'll use things of them. so for the ride to the fold in the understood you have to. remove those sort of from the local and yes of course. it's a little bit. of. a skill what has become very walled up was what's on.

what's your name. you turn try ok from militia also you know boss what i spoke ok come have ok we see you know ok. if you have your password i just like you can call kay and you also. obvious oh. and by your training any of our local stuff i want. to thank me. the problem is that many of these people do feel the world climate requirements the work permit says that they're to provide training up with these foreign 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 got to teach you anything. you have learned nothing so i'll 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 know what he says. i see something just. so well. but i thank you for us who you don't think was forced. by. the companies that are coming in there are a pest they have no consideration for all people all the environmental the future when they see a tree all they see is going to convert the tree into profit to get bigger. it is what the nickel carry just closed all timber operations in order province this is the last one but it's days are numbered.

and the i'm a country is poor and we want to development do we have few roads money no one under old me wonder gary jus for we inaugurated a new bridge connecting a remote forest area with the road network egoboo said it. hit the british government in on that if 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 may the whole world is looking for solutions you don't have in some of us on doing 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. and.

mr boyd you do it from the church in your childhood moment trying to feel like eating with your. own money many good and did not need all the fun to go but. i miss the old friends on our trip to france when i wanted to see the forests and not detain. it's not a virgin for the partner have it on him or use one of the biggest planted forests in europe i realize that the wipe out also has a lot of woodley and i was astonished at how it's harvested oral preserving. they also pleased to me you. might be delighted to show you our trees after all we're

both foresters so you at the other end of the world and me here in one city you may want to miss where similar one come to be your father or grandfather planted these trees for you and i inherited the forest from my ancestors to plan a member it's exactly the same possum tell you me one time i saw you just that here . you plant trees like corn on my you brought up by me in big bust that i. mean oh there's nothing bad about felling trees they've always grown and they're useful to people. or what if the white people have so many forests of their own my are they telling our trees. if there's anyone watching this film who can explain that to me please do and. don't plan on it 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 did you. know i'll show you the different kinds of plants that grow in our key ten and i don't do to supply these plants and trees are all used for different purposes to reach for example is good for making furniture and sweet chestnut for parquet floors need the salad to keep the high salt so these are the trees you planted so features are brightening 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 to match a lot of trees. real good think like like these. oh let's go. on the.

yes into one no one did awful where renewing the forest here through reforesting we were obliged by law to plant new trees within five years of clearing. and there was nobody to my home country foreign firms are destroying the forests without planning anything after they fell very old trees without thinking about the future at all just. so they could have to do it is indeed very important to replace felled trees so. they're growing quick. and i want to throw. in my country we also play the trees very many but only one time. it looks like a tough time grabs i know some of us.

remember american talking about the oil paul. and besides going to many coastal areas of the wonder going to the rain forest is replaced with huge plantations where the locals work i'm not going to mine also i will. die more 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 near put on debt i met a man from my area and. i. see you in brighton here you were both on the mountains nice to see you. you seem to be

doing well. have been you're making good money brought all of them what is your money on advice. yes i'm having my own one hundred day and i have a house with electricity and running water. one hundred. one hundred v. plus. what was it like here before and. yes. there was a big forest. came and destroyed the forests throughout the region. if we do not protect our remaining forests we will never again see the kind of bed you're wearing on your head and. yes we must preserve our virgin forests companies must help us develop sustainably so that the poor benefit . this little it's not easy to find a balance let me buy you me. bob

forrest some of the destroyed forests been 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. all that's left are the mill whisper and. my friends. you you mean high you mean you're the guy we all love the forest the one one man but we're also contributing to its destruction. people up on ground we found the ground for all our trees for a handful of keenness whether kong kong make a huge profit selling them or in the rest of the world buys our wood to keep their

feet warm by and this is the way brown let me one brown didn't i'm just a tribal chief and from papa a new guinea on him but i've come here to warn the world or the when all the trees have disappeared like me the people will die too. also only we can prevent the end of the world when all there will be a silence would be that side in darkness. what might sound like science fiction is actually up brylin starbuck's vision of reality. origins from a street d. printer. the enterprising biochemists hope to revolutionize transplants with this

technology. and of course they intend to turn it into a lucrative business. made in just thirty minutes. really feel. the scars. of the pain still tangible. for good. for c.b.s. edge but. they have survived the two they also have a future. i really understand people who say they do want to stay here. but i also admire people who want to stay here and who decided to create something . new beginning in peace time more the people making it possible

what needs to happen if tolerance and reconciliation are to stand a chance. out of darkness cities after a war. starting march tenth on t w. you're watching a d w news live from berlin the syrian government onslaught on a rebel held the mask a suburb intensifies mortars and missiles raining down on eastern ghouta without mercy killing and nearly three hundred people including at least fifty children according to monitors hospitals overwhelmed struggle to cope and besieged area home to some.