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on the amazon fire as a red direct consequence of the forestation. oh yes we're here to colonize the amazon. sic we burn to produce. if they're not now with a feeling about our rainforest isn't being destroyed or consumed by fire these are all lies spread by the media i mean to. me.

brazilian president joe your boss in our says the rain forest is intact. but it's not. even after he temporarily banned the use of fire to clear land slash and burn agriculture remains commonplace. amid a greed for property profit and land environmental protection has fallen by the wayside even though science shows that the rain forest is indispensable to humankind. its trees store huge volumes of carbon dioxide and generate rain. so as a bit of coordinates the deforestation mapping initiative map your mice. but the way they are muslin of up one of my rain forest releases more moisture into the atmosphere than the biggest and most water rich river on earth the amazon. what you need is yokes idea but about what i want you about how much energy would you need

to evaporate this amount of water you would need 6 months worth of the entire world's energy supply to heat up the amount of water but the amazon rain forest releases into the atmosphere every single day. do you know what that's worth. the rain forest is worth one trillion dollars to us every day. but since the rain forest services come free of charge such figures aren't factored into any equation the brazilian amazon region comprises 9 states and accounts for almost 2 thirds of brazil's territory. tasso as a video says the economic potential offered by a healthy rain forest remains largely untapped. experts are alarmed by the damage from its transformation into land for cattle soybeans and other crops they warn the region is heading for a point of no return after which it will self-destruct. international shipping

point. we will soon reach a tipping point he said that means ecological processes will change they will come to a halt. and we won't be able to restore the rainforest he was leading scientists of calculated that the tipping point is reached once 20 to 30 percent of the rain forest area is lost to date we have already lost 20 percent of the original amazon rain forest. say. one population group in particular is impacted by soaring deforestation people who live in the forest. 'd were in the state of rwanda and here near the border with bolivia in a designated protected area for indigenous people 'd ringback. it's home to the poor while while trying it out is one of their leaders. 'd

the 19 year old student takes photos of illegal logging activities and reports them to the authorities. not to fires as it makes me sad to see our forest cut down devastated destroyed and it's a disaster for us. one day even if we can hold on to our territories our culture and our traditions the invaders the stealing our forests the. penalty of us always . we don't go invading their homes we pay for the things we need they come in here

fail our trees kill our animals steal our fish and want to we do. sometimes we lack the words to express our grief over what is happening here in the indigenous territories that is there's a. lot of dust. and so many threats death threats even against our children against entire villages. but we're staying in the forest working and protecting it and we're denouncing the criminals. as indigenous people it is our responsibility to continue fighting so that land clearing like this is put to a stop. as well those of us. this is the village of the poor while while. 'd the mood is tense. ready criminal lawyers keep entering their territory raising trees and then occupying the land ready ready ready ready. the villagers are preparing for the

worst. ready ready ready ready ready they feel increasingly abandoned by the authorities the government to slash the budget of its indigenous affairs agency for night and scaled back staff. 'd 'd wonder who are. the forestation has increased dramatically since the new government came into power hydrogen and that it isn't backing our fight against criminal lawyers. as an indigenous person as a protector of the forest i try to remain vigilant and protect what's mine and what in the future will belong to my children and grandchildren i don't know an adult what i mean she. died here bos'n r.-o. took office in january 2900 backed by a coalition including brazil's powerful agribusiness evangelicals and the military he has never hidden his contempt for the left i want them. to shut up but i see

that there is. an aversion to red and for indigenous rights. also nora has taken steps to open up indigenous reserves to commercial development. and this has emboldened land grabbers. stalinism art than of i came that down they just cut down and burn as much as they can if they set their fires and take half their former like recently on the terror russia. when we arrived the whole riverbank was on fire. no way they're destroying our hunting grounds but soon there will be blood. they'll be hit by a barrel of arrows i'm reading a large group of men and i warn you we will have no mercy our chief is ready to go

to war. thank you yeah. a jungle patrol they. don't carry firearms only bows and arrows like they did when amazon tried suffered under brazil's military dictatorship in the 1970 s. and eighty's. about 100 tribe members living here. their opponents have rearmed after both. the forest and its guardians are suffering under an arms rule. settlers have long been burning the amazon to prepare their fields in the dry season. but the number of fires has increased dramatically. even we look at a whole year and compared 2018 with 2019 from january to september then the fires have increased by 40 to 45 percent that's significant. but when it

comes to deforestation we're looking at a 90 percent increase in the same period. since the conquest of brazil by the portuguese 500 years ago the surface of the huge rain forest area has decreased by about 20 percent. what's alarming is that more than half of this last took place in the last 2 decades. all this was once virgin forest . today the so-called green lawns look like those of a chain smoker. the logging one stone leaving if you put a policeman in front of every tree deforestation will only stop if there's an end to the sense of impunity in. the village of the well while always located in the district of campo novel.

it's actually protected indigenous territory at least that's what it says on paper . but not everyone here abides by the law. we ask the local police why don't law enforcement officers protect the indigenous population from invaders. i.q. the last. group which are going to lead us is that here in our area we have a special case. a group of illegal land invaders have formed an association to make the exploitation of the indigenous territories and the nature reserves look legal. they invade the reservations they claim to have legal papers and start logging. then they divide the land into plots and sell them. giving. into the areas. then them. and what.

it's a well organized group and. they have lawyers who advise them and even politicians who support them in their actions and that makes our work more difficult. or you don't want to lost. mafia like structures nothing new in crisis ridden brazil no wonder environmentalist's from the i.c.m. by wants to toot hardly dare to venture outside let alone in front of a camera. it is i mean the invaders threaten the indigenous population. there is the particular case of b. to take an indigenous leader head of a politically active association that wants to protect the reserve they get death threats from the land grabbers. or. death threats or in berlin a city with a population of 2500000 also known as the gateway to the amazon.

at its university girolamo click on the it's a leading specialist on land rights. brazil has adopted homeland is originally from italy. he's an expert in agrarian law. the problem in the state of para the amazon region and all of brazil is not a lack of land it's the poor distribution of land that there are some 900000 indigenous people live in brazil there are just 462 protected tribal lands demarcated by the indigenous affairs agency who know i was qatar today brazil has designated 14 percent of its territory as indigenous territories let me make one thing clear we will not extend these indigenous territories to 20 percent what they are yours and i. think you ought of the article 231 of the $988.00 constitution

recognizes the rights of indigenous peoples there's no room for debate so the current government's refusal to continue recognizing indigenous territories is a blatant violation of the constitution. and those borders and laws all under deuced by immigrants also nora's ancestors for example came from italy. for a mere 2 of months i vow to uphold defend and fulfill the constitution. assimilation integration was long the strategy pursued by those in power from colonialists to the military junta but also the catholic church. but the church changed tack. rebecca spiers as an american not who spent years and bill a fighting for the rights of indigenous people. she belongs to

simi brazil's indigenous missionary council. were. oracle for fussell policy just as it has never been easy for indigenous people but the last 9 months have seen a marked increase in physical violence in got an evil it is in the rio grande it all sort of in the far south there were 3 attacks someone night. in the far north gold prospectors kill the chief and shortly afterwards a 70 indian village and one donia was set on fire and the young man died in a state of grass. so from south to north from east to west everywhere in the country violence is increasing against the indigenous population and the territories this is also so stated.

the missionary council says 135 indigenous people were murdered in 2018 with the numbers expected to continue rising. large scale slashing and burning is not part of indigenous culture. it's what the invaders do. once they have in judah. wherever indigenous people live the forest is intact. homeboys here in front donia for example it's the same picture inside indigenous territories the rainforest is protected.

that engine had a provision that a magical save us all. so purely from the point of view of preserving this natural resource which is so vital to the whole of brazil we can say that indigenous people provide a gigantic service by protecting their territories if you go there is with us and the most incredible thing is it doesn't cost us a cent you know the police there was a group. and a pool on the legendary trans amazonian highway. the town is synonymous with the daily violence in the region. it was here that a land reform system known as the sustainable development projects was launched in early 2000. it aimed to settle that list workers on uncultivated land. sister jane dwyer was here from the outset together with dorothy stang from the same order. fighting for the rights of the poor

sister dorothy came up against powerful landowners who ordered her killing in 2005 . occasions our way there's only. 18 people have been murdered here since 2015 tame were afraid of massacres so anxious i.e. you know suffering our presence here is a warning and are these namea out for a reminder that they can't stop us getting ice in my eyes our presence or. even if our power and authority a very limited. if they start killing again we will cry out. and then she read. the names of the victims. 'd their killers were never identified. they all know more none of these murders ever came to trial so my. most the most crazies there are core

more or we have to note that the supreme judicial council the highest judicial authority in brazil published a report in 2009 which shows that only just over 7 percent of all murders are tried in court as you all might said she was saying and in the state of parar it's not even 4 percent no cows and no share got a quadruple saying. that her sister jane regularly makes around saying. she visits poor families who are settled here as small scale farmers under the government sustainable development program. noiseless and i left a pager and. this settlement has been has since 2002 it's a blueprint for a way of life that addresses the realities on the ground in the amazon. to

a familiar why it was set up by the federal land agency in care by a month after artists it allows families to farm while leaving the forests around them and tactile this way families become the guardians of the forest. after i'd asked us family yes. over museums family rule to other poor 18 years ago he's the chairman of the settlement. it's not a carefree job and one of the men of our last week someone came up to me and told me to be very careful it would be my turn next. nuff i don't worry so much about myself but i worry about my family when i'm gone that they might get caught up in the crossfire for. much like the protected indigenous

areas there's little respect for these government projects. amid a lack of police presence gangs attack subsistence farmers and take over their land but such settlements are a model of sustainability they bring landless farmers into de forest of plots and allow them to use and protect the surrounding forest from the chainsaws of the lumber barons. i'm sure were bad imagine going to say we lost about 270000 euros because of these criminal land grabbers who burned our camp down and stole our wood. we had already sold the lumber to a by a from l.m. it was a bitter loss for us. studies commissioned by the government show that many plants required illegally. armed gangs of land robbers known as players with team league use forged documents and all but as you say they could be saying the reports show that there are about 100000000 hectares

of land in brazil that have been taken over in g.b. as ways in the state of paranoia the figure is about 30000000 hectares and that means that about a quarter of the land area of easy illegally occupied in the gulf. the country's main environmental regulator ibama has been severely weakened under president also normal. his environment minister fired 21 of the bombers 27 state superintendents the aim of a deadly economic development at all costs. you need a permit that takes 10 years even for a tree that's already dead it's virtually impossible to build a small electrical plant we can't go on like this with these excessive controls by the environmental authorities a bomb and c m b o this only harms the people who want to produce. for those just. today the

bombers like a toothless tiger. since 1900 fines to the tune of some $17000000000.00 euros have been issued for environmental offenses only slightly more than 3 percent of been paid. the most prominent offender was the current president himself who in 2012 was cocky illegally fishing inside a nature reserve. he never paid the fine. when the forest is burnt down and. clear farmers bring in their cattle. ranchers in the state of pa alone hold 22000000 cattle. cattle is a vital branch of the economy and agribusiness a strong force in the capital brasilia. we are an all time meet up with

a trans amazonian highway was founded almost 50 years ago. to farmers who make no secret of the political convictions have agreed to appear before the camera said very often on news and flavio pro side. they say that after the end of the military dictatorship the region came to a standstill. they don't think highly of the agrarian reforms of past governments of development projects and sustainability as was thought those inciting logging and the biggest polluters are the land agency incra and the catholic church and social movements that seize private land values but their dad's divide as well as rio juval move at times we've had to reach for our guns to drive these people off our property if we tried by legal means we'd still be sitting in front of a pile of paper today we'd have spent a fortune on lawyers and still wouldn't have a hope of getting our property back you know what they are people are measured on the value they give out.

vigilante justice. to amazon rain forest is huge and it's hard for authorities to exert control. they simply lack the means. and the farmers to nice setting fires. for only insane just gimme noise that bissau askey you know what those fires was sent by government opponents sponsored by n.g.o.s but that's just to spread chaos in our region it's getting get it's. probable that fire the amazon is burning none of it is true. you know it's level that. lives fake news spread by the media. these images were filmed after our exchange with the farmers very close by. roll october $21000.00. the pope addresses bishops attending the amazon senate. the catholic church is

seeking new paths for the church and for internal ecology. one goal is to promote an awareness of the need for environmental protection among the faithful more towards. francis the pope from argentina has made inequality in latin america a central theme of his papacy. his desire for a church of the poor has echoes of liberation theology. but a kid record as deceptive letters pray for the grace to be able to listen to the cry of the poor their cry is the churches cry of hope. the cry of the poor is a call to action. one of the bishops here took this called a heart more than 50 years ago. he faced resistance even from within the

church. today he is revered as the amazon bishop the austrian quite as well if they feel good what does that shalt not kill main in order. it's not just the story of cain and abel you can also kill by robbing people of their livelihood and home if that they finish with it if i do not respect the forest if i kill the forest by slashing and burning then that is an interference in nature a huge intervention in nature which has consequences for the people who live their image of god leave. when he arrived in the amazon more than 50 years ago environmental protection was not an issue there was an attempt on his life and he can't even count the number of death threats he's received. for 13 years he's been under 24 hour police protection.

they're going to get their dick that would have been you know to me they we had few difficulties in ulta me or a jury in the military dictatorship one knew one had to be careful with certain statements but i never had any trouble with the military along machine river. of the u.s. . but it's a very different story now if you feel persecuted by that because we defending exactly what the government doesn't want. we defend the indigenous people their right to their ancestral lands we defend the amazon and the government wants to open the amazon up to domestic and international companies. did not see the id or the name and. it was. a day after the synod ended the governors of brazilians amazon states met with representatives of other neighboring states and the vatican amounts or the reason talking points included the needs of

indigenous people alternative economic models and the rain forest as an income generator. a stark warning came from u.s. biologist thomas lovejoy i think we're right at the tipping point right now to come by and the negative synergy between deforestation fire and climate change has brought us to this point. and we're pretty sure it's right here and now because we're seeing every 5 years here start droughts in the amazon which we think is the flecked 1st flickering so that tipping point. cattle farming generates enormous quantities of greenhouse gases meat consumption is a driving factor of climate change. rich in biodiversity the rain forest offer sustainable economic alternatives to cattle ranching. so why is

a raised forest worth more than an intact jungle. it's worth more because we don't get money for an intact forest if we destroyed the entire amazon today it would grow back again in 40 years it's not easy to destroy the amazon it's very strong all the amazons not going to die will be dead 1st. birthday party at the gomez's house the farmers here are doing well they have cause to celebrate. at last they have a president who represents their interests. they all moved here from other parts of brazil. most arrived during the dictatorship when the hunter hatched a plan to colonize the amazon. the generals claimed the rain forest provided foreign powers with avenues to invade brazilian territory. underboss a noro the knives have been sharpened his talk of foreign powers using the fires as

a pretext to interfere in brazil sovereignty has fueled decades of nationalist paranoia sit down while we live in a wealthy state that is persecuted by all kinds of n.g.o.s by bad mouth us brazilians accusing us of burning down the amazon. u.k. mama is going to get my sister buys a key of course by foreign countries or just after our riches our mineral resources . there are always fires in the amazon at this time of year in summer the dry season this is our way of life we burned to produce gave up one of those these foreign scoundrels i'm going to vent now come in here and try to steal our land but we won't leave it to the bandits i'm with both sinatra and you take care of your country i'll take care of mine plant your trees i'll plant mine you bandits these foreign powers want to have the say in our country never we won't have it and now.

that. both sonora only won the election with the backing of agribusiness now he has to deliver the rose from the agricultural industry deserves our respect. it's one of the few industries in brazil that successful. the farmer needs legal guarantees his private property must be protected for the night of. the fierce global backlash against the amazon fires and balsa nora's dismissive approach to protecting the world's largest intact rain forest but the president under pressure he was particularly irked by the comments from his french counterpart who said the fires amounted to an international crisis. also noro accused emmanuelle back home of having a colonialist mentality. or. whopper of a tough bill president is capitalizing on this to present himself to the world as

the lone savior of the environment you are going to start to defend the little bit . more headlines were made when the renowned head of brazil space institute was fired. at a god oh god wow is an award winning physicist and member of the brazilian academy of sciences. as director of the imp a space institute he saw the compilation of satellite data that has tracked arisan amazon deforestation and raise international where nyssa bout the problem are readily available monitoring system allow deforested areas to be pinpointed with a high degree of accuracy and help curb deforestation. system which is will this system developed by the in pay was always used with great success by the government since 2004 under the government of president lula da silva when deforestation reached a peak of more than 27500 square kilometers the in pace system helps reduce deforestation

by 80 percent by 2012 to 4200 square kilometers community in sanskrit on scorecards. but in 2019 the in paper reported a drastic increase in deforestation and. much troubles in oros displeasure the data tarnished brazil's image and the president openly questioned it. years to just one day as you want as you progress always with the information released here for example the input data published yesterday and today are repetitions from past years who is the guy running this institute. he will have to explain to us here in brazil where he got these figures which we feel do not reflect the truth and which he has passed on to the world media that you could think he works for some n.-g. o. or he resists corps appeal or there's nothing worse for a scientist than being accused of lying of falsifying data especially when the

criticism comes from your own president he accused me of being in the service of an international organization called me a traitor to my country i was shocked. but it was an attack on brazilian science the dater of the n.p. institute has an excellent reputation all over the world. a former paratrooper balsam doro has appointed a slew of current and former military officers as government ministers since taking office. the military dictatorship from 1964 to 1905 seems more of a model than a deterrent for him. little wonder then that he responded to the international outcry over the raging fires by sending troops into the amazon. basin r.-o. mobilized the military to fight the flames and he issued a temporary ban on fires. that worked in october 21000 the number of fires fell to the lowest since october 998 but putting out the flames did nothing

to stop logging. illegal deforestation has continued undiminished pace. we are travelling on the river to. a major tributary of the amazon. alessandra is a 35 year old window to cool activist who left her village to study in the city. she's studying law and sent out i where the top i just flows into the amazon. on weekends when she can take time off from her studies and family she visits the window to cool villages. the lumber mafia soil barons and gold diggers have made life hard for her tribal brothers and sisters. she has just been to germany where she spoke to a huge gathering at berlin's brandenburg gate on world climate day. i think she's eager to share her experiences. about.

30 knots of people suppose us a moment to get in to the one. tons of kids their kids and young people. moved as they know many don't have a clue about what's happening here in brazil in the amazon they've only heard about the fires that are know that the fires are set by invaders that they're full. but i sundra heads back towards. our next stop is. where the more dooku are being driven from their ancestral lands by swipe plantations here in plain view a reminder of the damage being wrought by commercial development that is forest deforested jungle. the amazon is crying for help. the rainforest is being sacrificed in the name of progress so the. soyuz loaded for shipping in

the port of sendai. brazil is the world's largest soybean exporter with more than 83000000 tonnes. china's brazil's best customer but europe also by story here. look at that change you know at 5 our fight is not an easy one we have powerful enemies we may be small but we have big in fact we may be small in size but in the battle we become giants. in that fighting spirit is needed to face off against industrial giants like cargo . the u.s. agricultural company dominates the port of sunset on. the brazilian government has approved hundreds of new pesticide products since both sonora took office.

soybean cultivation has also changed the landscape encroaching on the rainforest for. europeans should boycott brazilian beef and soy allison recess because they are stained with the blood of the amazons indigenous people. in the us she visits a group of men who cool what she was so i farmers of poisoning their water supply. the young chief joys in an indoor literature the street. agriculture soya has drastically decreased our life expectancy. mud nothing but mud no one can drink water from our stream anymore no one can do laundry all behave it makes us so angry. we dealing with a nazi government that has no respect for indigenous people. in tell nice to you we

beg the world for help look we need your help. but who should pay for maintaining the world's green lungs. environmental engineer has a veto from solve pollo has a plan. when we just do we will schools do you how could we share the costs to preserve such a huge area as the amazon rain forest very simply $1.00 per barrel of crude oil as a levy for the preservation of rain forests and their storage of carbon dioxide if we did that it would generate $100000000.00 a day in a year we'd have $30000000000.00 with that kind of money you could devise a super efficient rainforest preservation program but you don't have to prove that you are preserving the trees in the forest what i think what they are. sent out

on is a university town with a population of $300000.00. other sandra's in her 1st semester of law school. as an indigenous person she wants to know her rights is the only way to counter a president who was stripped environmental protection and put someone with close ties to agribusiness in charge of the country's indigenous agency. students from various ethnic groups around rolled in the seminar on human rights. here to alexander reports on her trip to germany. oh man blue shag us kma the world only sees the fire as there was a global strike for the climate i was asked to speak in front of 170000 people i've never seen so many people i'm one place before that something. discussions here focus on land distribution and the system of protection for indigenous communities that isn't trying to the constitution. it was.

now more than ever the amazon needs help. in august 2900 skies oversell pall over darkest night at 3 in the afternoon. smoke carried by the wind to brazil's economic powerhouse from fires raging 3000 kilometers away. a muslim communities of timmy the amazon and all of our natural resources are a treasure of inestimable value so we must protect them. yeah think what there's it back. a treasure not valued by brazil's government. as the amazon burns so too does the future of the planet. the region's indigenous people are sending out an s.o.s. . it's an urgent appeal to the world for help and taking action against the flames and against a president who was allowing the deforestation to continue. a cry for help

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