i my god my god my thought oh my god. oh my god. a museum. she gets a. sick. sick of it shakes up to this concept. but. i've. put big dreams on the big story i've. seen the magazine on the demi.

stand in the beginning i want something there was nothing. but just darkness and silence a long one for one day the birds began to sing and the big trees fell to earth. morning in the morning this month that i brought the first members of my tribe a walk. and a little for many generations at one with nature in the forests and trees. and then brought me my name is more old 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. on one than this film is aimed good morning you know 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 crime as 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 and skinny's doubling know 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. egypt i don't in my language talk to xen the ancient forests that have existed

since day one are called what europe agenda for in that he thought white man calls them virgin forests because they're untouched by and in 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 little of of them. all much because human beings are always leaving their mark. this is a moose this forest does not belong to me alone but to all creatures that live in it. not really include many beautiful and strange animals.

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 on me but i. can eat raw animal but the biggest of them not a book is a rare bad tempered and belligerent loner himself who can kill a human being with its claws. and i do wonder and he got the wrong man we call this most dangerous of all jungle creatures journey. jedi whites call it the castle wearing that's what it is. and got a good gun going for because it eats seeds and spreads them in its dropping this helps the forest regenerate. then we regard as our ancestor generous and will to

look for our forefathers hatched from the egg of a cross or it. was a man use of like him but the one 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 breathe to look to be honest i'm not good at these things you play you'll have to ask the scientists to research our planet me me too but i see my forest reading every morning. 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 now that's

a long time ago and it was a map and i don't know what his bald head he looks like a hand. just like me you know those and loves the forest. she's been photographing for more than twenty years. monisha 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 wanted has interpreted in his

homeland he teaches me about the secrets of the forest. me on the 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 kind of edible and otherwise useful plants.

need to eat like the new keeper leaves that stimulate the circulation and relax the muscles after a long hike through the forest. or rot on poems. which we call pool to keep cool 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. you know you find these forms 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. were treated 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. i was not born in a hospital but on the forest floor on a bed of leaves and the way to eat and. we grew up together i stayed small but the tree grew large. even as a white beard. and that what they had to. me got just like me. which of us will die first.

and. that's my mother when i die. they'll bury me here with my family. and big brother. you feels good to hold you in my. me i'm a child of the forest and my pride 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 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 own land that makes many thousand per day to land on the . descent madness map shows all the areas that have already been cleared and those for which permits have been issued and 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 the contacts smuggled us into one of the forestry operations. or just roger are they cutting down trees here that's what you need go or not stocked up and i said now i know that. you mean well but yes for five years now if i don't get back. all this is

a storage area money them down ok. it was careful with a drone pier we can't afford to be caught out. so you question that if you don't got it right no keep the windows closed i don't know so the box is concious and he moved as soon as we're out of the storage area i'll take you to the workers i mean and the village where the london slept and i'm going to be responsible and i'm. ok roger no worries nobody will see us i mean i often ask for permission but they always refuse to show me plan economy they don't want to see what they're doing here is only what you'll see when you think you can. look on the balcony i must be one of the bosses. don't you think now we're out of the storage area and then we can talk to the lumber jacks and pop a grown up to hunt them on i don't double. vision in pigeon proper ground is a very important word in 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 in you know you know not skinny. place. for her. up on the nose on me a month but it's also papa grant natives like me who work for the timber companies stands on they operate chainsaws and drive the bulldozers it's the only way they can make a living. they sell their trees and even fell them selves for a meager wage but how can i resent them they don't want to live like animals on the net. or

go a lot of money they're hired by foreigners from malaysia the philippines or indonesia . we call them kong calling balls on the months when they're in charge we carry out their orders you see a man i'm good dear foreman are not bad people just poor people or no living by knocking down our trees he said 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 but now i'm gone they fall the trees let out great cries of pain as if they were saying goodbye. you'll. never make you sad to knock down all these trees yeah.

and yes sometimes i'm sad. because we've got a lot of trees and when each huge trees fall us they also damage the trees around of the never do like a. nine just going flat you have this word. then you make it of course and with him it means i can earn my family's keep snow by a mile is one of sending me i need you. and you know you have to survive without this world you would go hungry. you know i'm going to be in with a gauge my understand as a rap as a new government 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 trades marable for floors and furniture and then tonic or for plywood. they are lie as in phoenix they fell the trees and pay us peanuts one thousand two thousand. five thousand peanuts one channel five doesn't get most of it was

a company knows that. you know. they destroyed everything but did not spend the cents a minute clinics. oh many well you know you know what we have nothing to show for it by or of those that are old forests. gone out of us and we got nothing for it. absolutely nothing that really brought him nothing but good luck when a series of them were here and we're 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. and 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 way to stop the bank

and like all these emphatic policy. you've always enforced room you know 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 company and fight against us it's our own corrupt governments fault they should be kind and my people people wrong. but i understand you. if we allow these firms to destroy our forests or 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 of. this not something look around you so you pray for our way now you mean we're standing by anything tree that protects us from the sun and pretty. awesome lives on in most of and it's shape is good for us. and without it you know

you would have nowhere to go to live in peace i'm heartless and i don't like going . to be nice the trees that were knocked down are taken away from the tribal areas of the papa ground i'm going on special trucks called cigars so i mean as 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. is it up it's a tree graveyard here as mud mud road and the way. mark

come here. stand in front of this it is it well. i want to measure the street. now you know. look it reaches up to your ears so kind of isn't going to have. trees this thick i don't know somebody on a lot. of trees this pecker very rare and french isn't the way i am when i want that the way this tree 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 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 i don't know. how old you think it is doing mama skin is moss said it must be seven or eight

hundred years old. they can tell the tree that is as old as the earth itself just to sell it to china. human on the move them our children and grandchildren will never get to see a tree like this one of them does it on the way to know what used to be there and i get your camera tonight when you look you can command over me. ok i deserve it don't smile no this is serious this might be the last big tree on the planet the way you will not me what you want them i want to take a photo for future generations will not run generosity. he's my i don't know got me . for us and i'm a son of the forest so i do not feel like smiling that you're a white man you can be happy. one one thousand some months the huge trunks are loaded onto cargo ships and in our

trees leave my country. how do you say you can fit more than three thousand trees on a single ship. we want to check that with a flying camera outside income of eagle flight all said you know both. so you can put it well. enough. 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 on processed trucks the international community has introduced rules against illegal cutting. me nobody in my home country knows what happens to the border. so mark and i showed the film to the public around no sun down.

am do i brought you know me they fell our trees and load them on to ships. but you have no idea where they're going and what will happen to them. you want to 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 tempers brought to regulate a china. malaysia a traitor was secretly filmed admitting to making false claim i am not running away from the way. they are now. they chop up our wood and turn it into planks paper

boxes doors chairs and much more. i wonder what they are not. one of them didn't. will never know one browser none of these are my mom. then they send these things to new zealand australia i mean america not your own. they're trading in our trade. business on them do i bring in the us you know we don't know much we are uneducated people from the forest they pay us thirty five keenness for us only to cubic meter of wood is that a fair price to give us a river on one man or simple people i cannot tell you or why companies trick us not enough. a solid cubic meter of my boat is worth more than twelve hundred cleaners

on the world market but the only parents thirty five keenness and thirty five in an . army corps may care about is prop one. hundred they should be helping our country to develop and make decent contracts my good man would not give us what they hide the truth because otherwise they would not be allowed to sell our lumber you would run. me begin you like everyone here i sell my trees to the malaysians but now couldn't our government favor companies that help us to develop our country in our community in country not only also. there are international certification programs that oblige lumber companies to contribute to the development of the region where they fell their trees. are buying given they were not only the proper ground benefit. if schools and hospitals are built everyone benefits from the sales of our trees around you are by international by the way.

one person the saddest thing for me is that we don't spend the 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. we've got eighteen idea how did 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 pina the men marry new wives and live like kings some spend millions of kenya zombie and. it's the same with all landowners here and you . should take responsibility and spend the money wisely on

building solid houses sending our children to school investing in our future. these trees are a gift from the heavens and we should use them sparingly just lot. over the harbor and everywhere in my country the environment is under threat. 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 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 the kong kong were able to exploit our country and press ahead with deforestation but in that there were many demands for the abolition of the s.a.b. also intimate but the politicians weren't interested one god is nobody except a governor or a province getting what man the son of an irishman not a proper 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. ok now we don't like when one of today we're going to carry out a raid in our obeyed the companies 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.a.p.o. alter band and the malaysians can't just cut down all the trees and fill their pockets at our people's expense you went to want to make it big no money in the books and find 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 i want to carry out a little inspection mission. right know there's very little control in most of the provinces a little bit 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 there's better little infrastructure they leave. the forest that area. doesn't care that

it is these trees that provided that they breathe with these trees with forests the world would not have the fresh air that they do now you see yet they want to preserve these but they're not willing to common losses in any way to sort of 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 loading up getting dumped 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 few of us what a will what's happening we have to link up with people in the village just like on t.v. see up and work with them and say look the. this time to take action to protect olenda molecules of this processing plenty out we have

a lot of it to stay you know parisian clothes they have downstream processing ok dental should be no problems but i found out that they have mentioned have been shipping out from behind the band with the no zero emission. cut. to fit. some of. those the film on the show. do you. think your. good buddy goes through a pretty. tiny. space on the bus if you. stick. to hollywood since you have your own nice things with them. so for the ride to the

. soul the new you have a son with whom you have been. close with those of google and the folks. who will be. for. us to walk us to come bring rolled up us what's up. what's your name your. new turn try ok from. no boss walk ok come have ok we see you know ok. you have your boss what i just not

you and yours. oh. and are you training any of our local stuff and want. to thank me. the problem is that many of these people who feel the with limit requirements and work permit says that they have to provide plenty of opportunities for citizen employees then never train anyone. they come and work and make money and don't train anybody in legal i'm going to write whatever name you go to teach anything. and learn nothing so nobody is up. we want to walk. it's probably on faith last q any questions on because i'm curious i want to. before. i say something to say how. so well.

for him to find us here you don't because you. know most of the life. the companies that are coming in there are tests they have no consideration for people all the environment all the future when they see a tree or daisy is going to convert that tree into profit to get bigger. it is what i'm going to drill for closed all timber operations in order province this is the last one but it's days are numbered. and the emblem a country is poor and we want to development do we have few roads romy know what. me wonder go to jail for we inaugurated a new bridge connecting

a remote forest area with a road network said it. the british have been let in on but if i myself i'm a bridge between the world of the white man and our work on saturday humankind's biggest worry is climate change up so you may the whole world is looking for solutions you don't have been 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. burton supporting her do it for her would be circular should it moment try to be like to put it. on

a very little bit of good. news the real friends on our trip to france. i want to see the forests and not detain. dissemble since not a version for our it is like we have it on booze or use one of the biggest planted forests in europe and i mean i realize that the white bread also has a lot of woodley too and i was astonished at how it's harvested older also serving more john was a young piece to me you. might 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 may want to miss where similar one could be your father or grandfather planted these trees for you and dayanara to the forest or my ancestors would have

been a member of it's exactly the same person so you may want to was only just that here . you plant trees like corn come on mom you drop 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 telling our trees. if there's anyone watching this film who can explain that to me please do and. don't plan on that this is the section forest 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 for example is good for making furniture and sweet chestnut for parquet floors just the salad

you keep ok so these are the trees you plant so for your style but any way they don't tell us you know 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 we've got the most a lot of trees. a. real good link like like. oh. all of your. farm now. yes into one world that awful where renewing the forest here through reforesting we're obliged by law to plant new trees within five years of clearing. the way to my home country foreign firms are destroying the forests with all planting anything

afterwards they felt very old trees without thinking about the future and all the rest. they could have to do it is indeed very important to replace felled trees that. are growing quickly. and i once wrote. running in my country we also planted trees very many i mean i'm going on a one time. it looks like a tough to grouse i know some grass. and then remember i'm talking about the oil palm. and besides in many coastal areas of . the rain forest was replaced with huge plantations where the locals were. not

undermined. after the harvest of the fruits or pressed to make the most widely used oil in the world. palm oil and chocolate cookies and many other products at a plantation near upon debtor i met a man from my area both in. i. say you mean right in here you were both on the mountains nice to see you is that you seem to be doing well now that all have been you're making good money brought all what i could in what is your money in a dry work. yes i'm happy i earn one hundred k. in a day and i have a house with electricity and running water. one hundred. one hundred the

rest. it was a like here before and. yes. there was a big forest hales. long cane and destroyed the forest throughout the region. if we do not protect our remaining forests we will never again see the kind of you wearing on your head and opening up oh yes we must preserve our virgin forests company all the companies must help us develop sustainably us so that the poor benefit will this sort of it's not easy to find a balance let me come by you me. oddball for a metaphor of some of the destroyed forests being 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 i'm an animal all that's left of the mill whispered is that. my friends. you mean hi you me you are that we all love the forest the one one man but we're also contributing to its destruction. we papa ground fell 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 by the way don't let me one credit did i'm just a tribal chief and from papa a new guinea but i've come here to warn the world or when all the trees have disappeared like me the people will die too. only we can

prevent the end of the world when all there will be is silence would be that side in darkness. there is. because twenty wound up winning ways with the action is happening days invalid in ten days at the international film festival the badly not at best thousands of professionals and movie buffs into the world of cinema. we'll bring you all the highlights of places to leave the festival bubble and look back at the two thousand and eighteen but enough of. them thirty minutes.

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