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is the most species rich and oldest rainforest on. 130000000 years old. long not. all. it's located in a malaysian part of borneo it's still home to 40 trying and ethnic groups including the pena. one not much of that but i think i think that what we could for when the forest we find wild boars of fruits and medicine it's all done up when the forest with your

wonderful and we're connected with our ancestors on the political and i dealt with you but now it reminds us of a beautiful time when the forest was still intact when the local cannot. ban living environment is threatened. huge palm oil plantations are eating their wife found out and fiver into the ancient forest and destroying the rain forest ecosystem. song is what the pentagon calls back home it means both forest and while 16009 live in this part of malaysia only a few dozen are still nomad roaming the. forest like ancestors did hunters and

gatherers. here is this right. the hole is too small. a lot of. antarctica anti-gun belong to one of the last communities of forest nomads in borneo. a man not counting the forest searching. lot he would he would be too good for the poison of the tree. we still come here to tap the poison this is a part of our history this is how our ancestors lived out hunting for a while before for animals and for a lot of god it also allows us to defend ourselves against enemies enough that i think

their ancestors also tapped the strain for the poison inside. that. thousands of indentations in the bark bear witness to these ancient tradition. and his tribe live in the forests of the malaysian state of sarabhai located on the island of borneo until a few years ago the virgin forest here covered an area. of germany but 90 percent of it has been cleared by timber companies. the habitat of the pentagon is becoming smaller and smaller. and the others have

set up camp for a few weeks on the many river. their small community consists of just 9 people. it's a sustainable life in harmony with nature. hunting constitute on the table and the forest provides the necessary poison. and yes there is a weather wild boar are muggy all animals die from this poison within 10 minutes. but then later if you're pretty result with a bio die within 5 minutes because it so was a very very but that if you just. flick

makes in the points and is a long process. it must simmer until it has become a think viscous paste. the women are responsible for the domesticated animals the dogs copper camp while the monkeys make noise if any poisonous snakes try to collapse. the boys and as evenly distributed on the arrows and dried in the fire. if it is not the man. they not i will go to a place where there's a salt lick. for all the maybe some monkeys or deer will come along or there.

is not and. the forest gives the pentagon people everything they need to survive. it's a garden pharmacy and supermarket and all rolled into one. when i was a small boy i went down to the river to hunt animals that i walked by like a. few. the rain forest is the central bonds of the identity it's the final resting place of that ancestors and the center of that spirituality culture and history.

these forest nomads have no written record of that culture but i know about 2000 words but trees and ponds as the forest dies so does the language and that culture too timber companies want and landed all costs they have already offered bang my good money motorcycles and a calm. these legs are my car i don't need any of that when i'm going to go out of the forest as a big created by god i'm not interested in your money in the forest provides us with everything we need i live here with my children my grandchildren. i can just go away i don't want you here that's what i told them. that. you know you're. going to.

imitate the call of them once jack dia in order to extract it. one point and dot one hit. however this time it wasn't a deer. that i shot this world with the poison we got yesterday in just one minute it died. just so. the forest is vital for their survival that's why they treat the environment with the greatest respect. but a tough fight has begun.

malaysian timber companies are invading phantom won't. they want to clear the forest but plantation. all gets ahold. of multinational firms the pan am sent thompson bull wooden block hangs. by the money 5 times we said ok and each time they destroyed it again but when you look at that you know if they destroy this house as well we don't know what will do what we want a house in the middle of this logging road to stop that. the idea did actually temporarily stop the timber company a small success in an otherwise on fan fight a fight that revolves around the question of who actually owns the forest. i meant that not the law the idea that the rain forest will be destroyed worries me i don't

know when the storm will return call myself a cup of forest as a whole we have to take care of it the i mean if something is broken it must be repaired that water because the bad weather the storm can come back at any time but now we know the timber companies are our store and. a warning took the longest to keep office land but one house alone one nonstop the logging companies for long. people like penn macoutes are an anime of the industry . trade in tropical timber is a $1000000000.00 business malaysia has one of the world's largest tim back sports with a turnover of almost find 1000000000 euros it's. the only one on the fact that a lot of money that if no $1.00 pays attention to the forest to the mountains and

no one protects the animals of the forest then the destruction will get worse we will continue this blockade as long as necessary. so i got all in so i got if they're not here we can move freely nobody got no no thanks to the blockade they haven't been showing up. but they'll come back some time we just don't know where make it at home or compare thought i can know. for loggers unpaved tracks come through the jungle connecting the tribes with one another and my goods uncle gave up his own life in 2000 these forest no mans became settled farmers they now live in a house with a corrugated iron roof. there's

an electricity here from diesel powered generators. but. it would have sat if you compare our old life with today it was better in the fast our life today is more difficult because of the many illnesses. and there are other problems in the forest one could temper companies don't care about what happens to us and it's not fair that the club bought together. souvenirs of the past 15 signed a plastic bag. their own government i found that i get sad when i look at these pictures in

a way when. we were happy when we lived in the forests in the mountains and by the rivers. these photos are a treasure because they remind me of this past life and know i missed out on that me. ringback the reason for giving up the old life was his youngest son james. not that i did that my child was disabled you know when we settled down because we could no longer carry him through the forest. since then we've been living here permanently . you have them and eventually swellings appeared all over his body here and here. his skin became infected it became sore at will and he melted lightly wax in front of our eyes that was the end of his suffering then he

died it was a terrible disease. and. mcareavey severely disabled some on the sudden tree life that price so lives sega had to sell parts of his forest to a timber company. and it's not on either timber companies at the edge of the village excavators from the state oil company petronas and digging through the forest to build a road to a nearby pipeline so i say get a benefit from this model that you provide us with solar cells and electricity for light bulbs so we. light at night this should improve our lives our new government has initiated this.

new collides with the old sunshine norman's contrasts challenge the pentagon's way of life every day. the move towards a new reality is inevitable it comes at the expense over so sufficient life in the forest the decision is out of the hands. but what about that even though we now live here as farmers. we still go hunting in the forest road and will never forget our culture and our way of life. that he met or it will always remain a part of us though or could make or name. with

this new way of life comes agriculture very sick foods no longer have to be laboriously sorting the forest and icons are very dated near the village. to say good tree is one of the most important food sources the palm contains a carbohydrate rich starch that can be extracted from its pulp. at the. lab where you write that there takes a long time to plant a rice field but with sago we only have to cut it down and we can do that the same day a month in one now compared to that growing rice is very time consuming at dawn although if the field is bring it out we can have a yield all year round them. the conservation of dry rice is something the pentagon have learned from british

colonisers missionaries and neighboring indigenous tribes. in numbers a 1000000 in june make up the small trees that july and august we burn the fields in september we planted what in the in march we start harvesting. the rice is right. meanwhile the sago stanch is dried directly off to the harvest and then processed. and turn it into a tough white that served with almost every meal it has little taste and hardly any nutrients but it provides them with the necessary carbohydrates.

the pentagon's way of life has changed considerably since the middle of the 20th century they still live in the forest with a few exceptions they're no longer nomadic in the last 50 years communities have settled down in one place. on sundays a bamboo chain is used to people to a church service. over the last century the original animistic pan and look i'm going to do christianity and about ties to my australian missionaries.

however a belief in the spiritual power of animals and the forest is still deeply rooted in that culture. thanks of the destruction of the forest can be found directly every day game which is a vital source of meat is becoming scarce the native bearded page is increasingly rakim . more. like that of the 2 of us went to the telephone river because the rain forest there is not yet destroyed. at 5 o'clock in the morning we saw a wild boar taking

a mud bath and we laid in wait that morning we shot it with a blow gun and then tracked it down to darla at 6 o'clock in the morning it threw up and died i would say. in pen and culture the collective stands about the individual everything is shattered because everyone knows that at some point they'll be dependent on others sharing is a survival strategy. everyone has a role to play including some lies wife. well you know. we make baskets bags and blowpipes to earn a little bit of money and that's how we survive you know.

if the company takes all the timber all the sago trees and all the rest town what are our chances of survival. the forest is destroyed the wood has vanished and they haven't even compensated there is no more rice support what good is a polluted river. and his tribe the last living as forest now mounts for them the day begins with a laborious search for food. unlike in his uncle's village the sago palms here line many miles inside the forest and must 1st be transported down the river before they can be processed on the backs everyone helps.

i . thank the good c. youngest son and his 2 siblings were born in the forest he doesn't know how own he is age and time play no role in the life of the pen and. there's not even a word for birthday that finance a the day on which the child found from the mother's womb and on to the forest floor. i go my life i never went to school i only feel safe in the forest the forest is my school i know how to make arrows so

i thought at 1st i learned to shoot birds and then squirrels and then i learned to hunt bigger rodents and monkeys are always and. this is the school we had as children in the forest that warn that if fs fi support my father because he protects the forest which is the right thing to do now where do we get food at the forest is destroyed we must protect the forest if we don't find food will face a huge problem. that not. only is the forest of serai this is the question that every. thing else revolves around . the banana were already living in these forests long before the remains of the british crown colonies saw him ally are singapore

north borneo. became the kingdom of malaysia in 1963. but under malaysian law indigenous people who want to claim land rights must prove that they lived in the area before 1958 the pan-am lack the documents to prove this. they have 3 children girls and 2 boys and all 3 were born in the forest but we have no birth certificate. without a birth certificate there can be no citizenship and that one hope remains hang a good dancer a treasure in a plastic notebook for 15 years ben and teams together with cartographers from

switzerland mansoura found have been mapping the territory of the indigenous people a total of 10000 square kilometers they have charted over $7000.00 rivers and streams and more than $1800.00 mountain ridges. now for a walk up. with this map we can prove that this is our territory and that our villages are here legally and. that's why it's so important for us here now among them if we're not going by middle and the by the way with these maps the pentagon can for the 1st time demonstrate the use of than territories and their historical boundaries in 2011 accordance around whack recognize the indigenous land rights of the banana for the 1st time. since then more and more of them are going to court. because you have 1st same problem. this group led by chief who count loop whom

has taken on the palm oil company radiant lagoon. in december 28th seen the malaysian company illegally invaded traditional and territory on the edge of the goon own national park. last march when the logging companies began to massively invade our forest we set up this blockade to protest. for months the pentagon occupied the access roads to the rainforest in august 29th team they filed a lawsuit the folders supremum quarter of seraing the verdict to stone pending in the meantime and i'm groups continue to patrol the area to prevent the palm oil

company workers from returning. the man some people are angry at us because they want to get money. to support us doesn't. belong to them. and our forests. they are angry with us we don't care. provides food. products are popular with chinese traders. visiting the national park. we have to protect. them to have a. very

. if we don't have. to sell anything. evidence against the palm oil companies. led by. joe. the drums. he can hear yes. but. if he didn't make it it's that mean that you know you are like. that a lot. and. when you watch by. this. look he did speak to me.

yeah and yeah. it's not. just that. and then. this is the footprint of. when you can visit. they just a minute. or so in this verse is very good place. yeah you can hear. some of. the legal dispute between the palm oil company and the pentagon is not the company is not.

a mob of $10000000.00 mine is wrong in the tropical heat. what has happened to this land can be clearly seen here they told us that the work in our forest would be to our advantage that palm oil was for us but we don't want that they want to negotiate prices with us. palm trees. grow here again. i'm happy. it grows naturally in this forest it tastes delicious it helps ward off costs. it doesn't need because it grows wild and that's a good. you know. the.

country's big companies are all. a mistake but they'll at least win the battle over the forest in the conservation reserve. both products in an obviously i said no more encroachment. it's meaning that. he wants on the ground he wanted to cross because there's nobody any more. the link. few little feet. no we are again in one or bought a ticket yesterday do we have a good big fucking do it's free money that you want to fight. it out in what. about anywhere.

on some losing how. you. feel you really feel. kind of. interim. even if they have settled down and choose changed in their lives respect for nature remains an important part of bank contra line density. or.

this is what we call supper route. secure we make separate routes to honor the animals of the forest. service. how. long ago our ancestors hunted big animals like leopards rhinos and. what have then they made the separates to pay respects to the animals and to appease their spirits more. over 20 years 5000 on land rights rule suits have petered out without success. it's a sensational victory to be able to stop

a powerful company like radiant lagoon not least phenomenon. but. it gives them a little breathing space in this exhausting fight over the forest they have called home for generations. the word of this partial success has also reached paying my googe one of the last far as nomads he too is still active in the fight for his land. together with his wife he meets regularly with chiefs. we have to go now there are plenty of fish you can catch. we'll be back on sunday

now we have to go. day here and don't go anywhere. to. the nearest jungles sentiment is a power 5 hours away from their village day in trying to root. in the end even the calm one take the money for a. destination is the settlements of long. many. for timber companies and on palm oil punctuations. in

the eyes of paying my goods and call me a driver i pay too high a price for a little prosperity. my last time to a more honest. 1003 thing at that time it's all covered by a forest and. nobody blood there but i'm on just like killing their own mental. here they see the money here difficult about their culture their. history their relate to kill their children to then the next generation. i couldn't live like this you see it's very hard i couldn't live here.

if i had to give up my forest to get electricity i wouldn't want that. i would only accept help from the government if i didn't have to destroy my forest to get a. better. chiefs travelled from or. to meet with malaysian government officials open and asked to fill out forms to obtain identity cards so that they can be recognised to sons of malaysia. my best the government to take care of things they said in there i will do it. i've been waiting years and nothing's happened.

but if i have an id card that i can protect my land i can sue in court. this idea would allow me to negotiate over my land over the rivers and although. i got sick i could get treatment in a hospital. the new. government officials keep everyone waiting eventually realize i've been stood up. we paid a lot of money for example for gasoline to get here it rained all the way we're very disappointed we've been waiting for these i.d.'s for many years now and they're still not here.

to get here i had to drive by car then by motorcycle and cross the big river. i could have had an accident with a car motorcycle or in the river. where i would have happened then. i'd always sides the pipeline goes through my land and i haven't even received just mark up and station. the chief so now that without i.d.'s there can be no land no compensation and no future. and makes his way back disappointed.

you know what i can you are the one to everything so i came all the way along near ivy. the discussions on everything were good but it makes me sad that the people responsible for our ideas did not come. to do for you know but. one shot is the largest producer of palm oil in the wound and another 700000 hectares of rainforest to be cleared from plantations in the coming years. lee unique environment and home of the. endangered. forest nomads alms giving up.

on me well ok and i'd like the government to protect the forests not only the government can protect the forest company of the great dad i'm going to allow logging companies into the forests that's what i want for my children and grandchildren lee and i why. i am one of my children and grandchildren protect the forest just redo it on a card for that a few spots of rain forest will be preserved the long body of the body i believe it's possible and if those in charge are on our side and if the lawyers help us later help our children thought and grandchildren. probably almost get into.

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