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here to colonize the amazon. stick we've been to produce. them not know with us build them up our rainforest isn't being destroyed or consumed by fire these are all lies spread by the media image of. brazilian president joe your boss and 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 tree store huge volumes of carbon dioxide and generate rain. as available 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 of. 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 that the amazon rain forest releases into the atmosphere every single day would you say 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. so 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. into question of the chipping point. we will soon reach a tipping point. and 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. what say. 'd one population group in particular is impacted by soaring deforestation people who live in the forest. 'd where in the state of rwanda only or near the border with bolivia in a designated protected area for indigenous people 'd 'd ringback. it's home to the poor while while trying it out here's one of their leaders. 'd 'd the 19 year old student takes photos of illegal logging activities and reports them to the authorities. and.

not a fire it makes me sad to see our forest cut down devastated destroyed. it's a disaster for us. one day even if we can hold on to our territories our culture and our traditions the invaders a stealing our forest the barrel of our boys. i was in. we don't go invading their homes we pay for the things we need they come in here fell out 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. vast there's 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 denouncing the criminals. as indigenous people it is their responsibility to continue fighting so that land clearing like this is put to a stop. this is the village of the air wow wow ready. the more disturbed. 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 their for the government to slash the budget of its indigenous affairs agency for night and scaled back staff. 'd 'd

wonder who. deforestation 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. what i mean. your boss an 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 the. dishes i see that the. version to read and for indigenous rights. also nora has taken steps to open up indigenous reserves to commercial development. and this has emboldened land

grabbers. stylings in my fan of i.q. that they just cut down and burn as much as they can if they set their fires and take off their former like recently on the terror russia. program that when we arrived the whole riverbank was on fire. you know when they're destroying our hunting grounds but soon there will be blood. in the front of 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. jungle patrol. 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 sonora relaxed. the forest and its guardians are suffering under 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. right that the logging won't even 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 or camp or 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 law say there was a. group which you can live as if you sat here in our area we have a special case and a group of illegal land invaders who 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 plants and sell them. giving. in to the emmys. then them. 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 if 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 black. death threats or in a city with a population of 2500000 also known as the gateway to the amazon. at university girolamo picardy is 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 now i know you are 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. of your 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 for their. anthems borders and laws all under deuced by immigrants. also nora's ancestors for example came from

italy. pyramid of money i vow to uphold defend and fulfill the constitution. assimilation and integration was along 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. for fussell presenters as it has never been easy for indigenous people but the last

9 months have seen a marked increase in physical violence in quite 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 in one donia was set on fire and the young man died in a state of gas. 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 water says take it. 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. want to be having driven wherever indigenous people live the forest is intact they've got a whole board here in front donia for example it's the same picture inside indigenous territories the rain forest is protected. a provision that a magical said was still. so purely from the point of view of preserving these natural resources which is so vital to the whole of brazil we can say that indigenous people provide a gigantic service by protecting their territories. but the science and the most

incredible thing is it doesn't cost us a cent you know in other bodies. 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 level its 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 . i can be desolate a largish there's a guy theory killed 18 people have been murdered here since 2015 games were afraid of masochist. so. our presence here is

a warning and there are these namely out towards a reminder that they can't stop us or did are getting i stand with 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. the names of the victims. their killers were never identified. they are all memoirs none of these murders ever came to trial my. most the most crazies there are core more or brought 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 be said she was saying and in the state of parag it's not

even 4 percent no cows and no she got a quadruple saying. that. sister jane regularly makes around the city she visits poor families who are settled here as small scale farmers under the government's sustainable development program. is this an hourly pager and there's enjoying every door. i almost 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 do you think i go to enough i mean here my dad was set up by the federal land agency in cal fire month after artist same pay it allows families to follow my lead in the forest around them and tactile this way families become the guardians of the forest. the awful august us family yes. open the ceo's

family road to on a poor 18 years ago he's the chairman of the settlement. it's not a carefree job that none of us have a member of our guest last week someone came up to me and told me to be very careful it would be my turn next. month 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 deforested plots and allow them to use and protect the surrounding forest from the chainsaws of the

lumber barons. i'm sure were paid in my view media who 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 buyer from l.m. it was a bit of a loss for us. africa. studies commissioned by the government show that many plots were acquired illegally. armed gangs of land robbers known as routinely use forged documents more 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.s. ways in the state of paranoia the figure is about 30000000 hectares and that means that about a quarter of the land area of power is illegally occupied in. the country's main environmental regulator has been severely weakened under president

also nor. his environment minister fired 21 of the bombers 27 state superintendents the aim of a deadly is 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 there's only harms the people who want to produce. for this. today the bombers like a toothless tiger. since 1980 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 has burnt down and cleared 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. more. near an all time you know where the 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 this and flavio cross-eyed. 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 just such a bad book just those inciting logging and the biggest polluters of the land agency incra and the catholic church and social movements that seize private land. this was real. 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 what they are people who go there devolve. vigilante justice. that amazon rain forest is huge and it's hard for authorities to exert control. they simply lack the means. and the farmers to not setting fires. for it only sanders criminalize that this sawicki

those fires was sent by. government opponents was 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 johnny nice live their. lives fake news spread by the media. these images were filmed after our exchange with the farmers very close by. rome october $21000.00. the pope addresses bishops attending the amazon sin and the catholic church is seeking new paths for the church and for intricately colleges. one goal is to promote nowhere news of the need for environmental protection among the faithful. already. 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. there. but a kid recognize here deceptiveness says 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 to 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 low voice what does that shalt not kill mean nordic. it's not just the story of cain and abel you can also kill by robbing people of their livelihood and home if they're the

fish because 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 there image. 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. and that really did think that would have let you know 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 the shingle river.

over here. but it's a very different story now if you feel persecuted by that because we defending exactly what the government doesn't want if we defend the indigenous people their right to their ancestral lands still we defend the amazon and the government wants to open the amazon up to domestic and international companies. did not see. them being with. us. a day after the senate 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 oh come on 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 just start droughts and they are most on which we think is the flick 1st flickering so that tipping point which. cattle farming generates enormous quantities of greenhouse gases meat consumption is the 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. is 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. and the generals claimed the rain forest provided foreign powers with avenues to invade brazilian territory. underboss an r. o. 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 as it doesn't work 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 as he later became a masonic face just defies

a key of course by foreign countries adjust after our riches our mineral resources . there are always fires in the amazon at these time of year in summer the dry season this is our way of life we burn 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 on our own 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. sonora only won the election with the backing of agribusiness now he has to deliver water levels from the agricultural industry deserves our respect. it's one of the few industries in brazil that's successful. the farmer needs legal guarantees his private property must be protected. by.

the fierce global backlash against the amazon fires and balsa nora's dismissive approach to protecting the world's largest attacked rain forest with 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 naro accused emmanuelle back home of having a colonialist mentality. or. whopper of a thought mill president is capitalizing on this to present himself to the world as the lone savior of the environment you will get us out of the different deal. more headlines were made when the renowned head of brazil's space institute was fired. at a god oh god while 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 awareness about the problem a readily available monitoring system allowed the forested areas to be pinpointed with a high degree of accuracy and help curb deforestation. system which is why 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 the forestation by 80 percent by 2012 to 4200 square kilometers it was at school on scorecards. but in 2019 in paper reported a drastic increase in deforestation. much trouble sonorities displeasure the data

tarnished brazil's image and the president openly questioned it. years to just one death if you want to preserve 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 says scores of people are 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 while. the military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985 seems more of a model than a deterrent for him. but little wonder that that he responded to the international outcry over the raging fires by sending troops into the amazon. also noro mobilized the military to fight the flames and he issued a temporary ban on fires. that worked in october 2900 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 rose 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 wear the top of shorts flows into the amazon. on weekends when she can take time off for her studies and family she visits the window to cool villages. the lumber mafia soy barons and gold digger. has had 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. she's eager to share her experiences. right now by. taking notes of people suppose us the moment to get. to the there were tons of kids there kids and young people. move to many don't have a clue about what's happening here in brazil in the amazon they're only heard about

the fire as they don't know that the fire is a set by in vegas that they fall. but i saunter heads back towards sun today or next stop is a size 0 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 de forest a jungle in 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 sand out on. brazil is the world's largest soybean exporter with more than 83000000 tons. china's brazil's best customer but europe also buys soya here. look at that age you know if i last 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 battle we become giants so. that fighting spirit is needed to face off against industrial giants like cargo. the u.s. agricultural company dominates the port of sunset and. the brazilian government has approved hundreds of new pesticide products since both sonora took office. the soybean cultivation has also changed the landscape encroaching on the rainforest. europeans should boycott brazilian beef and soy alessandra says 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 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 bathe 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 lawns. environmental engineer so as avail themselves pollo has

a plan. when one judges 3 we all scorched as you how could we share the costs to preserve such a huge area as the amazon rainforest 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 i thought as . subtle as a university town with a population of 300000. other sandra's in her 1st semester of law school. as an indigenous person she wants to know her rights students from various ethnic groups are enrolled in the seminar on human rights. here to listen to reports on her trip to germany. yes this. is.

a shag us kma the world only sees the fun last 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 is changing. discussions here focus on land distribution and the system of protection for indigenous communities that is in trying to the constitution. now more than ever the amazon needs help. in august 2900 skies over sao paulo were dark as night at 3 in the afternoon. smoke carried by the wind to brazil's economic powerhouse from fires raging 3000 kilometers away. a muslim you saw to me the amazon and all of our natural resources are a treasure of inestimable value so we must protect them. yep

whiskey think but 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 in the name of mother earth.

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