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tv   Close up  Deutsche Welle  January 17, 2023 1:30pm-2:01pm CET

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o wolf, white in such a better life. casey, this is in progress, settled on what is left for the level of an answer by somebody. a limited fill that out and find out about bailey's story. info, migraines, reliable news for migrant. wherever they may be. ah ah, it's the end of may any naughty and the ice hasn't quite disappeared. the average annual temperature here isn't much above freezing point. in europe's far north primeval forests still exist. the trees are small, gnarled, and supple. petri motus is on his way through this old growth forest.
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if it weren't for him, these trees would have been cleared many years ago. lumber companies had their eye on them back before the 1st big protest action. any naughty. this is what a healthy forest here looks like with reindeer calves roaming about. reindeer mothers spend their last 2 weeks and enclosed areas before giving birth. october just born in the yesterday evening. i you're margaret those like there is one of right. so i got 1000 but my air marker and i opened that scared them, they go back to the freedom ah, ah petri matos likes that. his animals have an appetite for freedom. they develop better and don't cost him much. he's grateful
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to the forest that sustains his animals. harry. oh, he lou. ha ha! who yara. hello, lin, hoof to ski. i thought rock leg. hello li. hooked to us. oh, this is about 12 hours and hold them up. oh, very old. every family of reindeer herders has its own distinctive ear marker. the procedure doesn't appear entirely painless up. the mom is coming over there. it's recognized the old baby child.
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and he was amazing when you're living does everything i say, but they recognize or maybe along and i feel today not coming lot of kind o him. some of us may related, but if they done during like they said, they didn't think it hurts them very much. no, i don't think so because it's not like a lady's, they both the earring thing, ethnic old growth forests are woodlands that have not been significantly disturbed by human activity and these could be left untouched. after all, there is enough timber elsewhere in northern europe. the liken, hanging on the branches, serves a special function. what's felt here takes a very long time to grow back. as you see, gold proved it is
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a big for 500 years old. thirty's black, like another trees. what raid the again, eat in the winder. it's not only bit 3 because there's when they, when the are a lot of snow on the trees. as you see the slack flies and also on the land. and it's coming up of the snow and rain. you can eat this if there's a lot of snow and a small, it's hard. without this forest, the reindeer would struggle to get through the winter. luckily the herders have received international help. korean be come here and help us and they thought the biggest company who by the finish paper and the sammy, people on sam arrange to her to have a problem. this forest cutting because it's out for us is very important in finland. authorities were ignoring petrie mottos and his fellow herders. then
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greenpeace raised the possibility of a boycott. that was back in 2003. a large cargo ship had been docking each week in the northern german city of lou. back with timber from finland's vast forests. it's cargo turned out to have come from some of europe's last remaining primeval forests . the supply chain could be traced back tween ari. this timber was destined to be turned into toilet paper or glossy magazines in germany. in inquiry, a small delegation of traditional reindeer herders was waiting to show evidence of fresh felling. they didn't need to go far. this tree was a few 100 years old as far as ot yes, who could tell from the rings without using a magnifying glass. that's how close the rings were together about him or some of it, ram, be it. but among cox, if the will think of them of books will be
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a new note with state forestry authority has promised to protect certain areas hollywood, but they are felling trees elsewhere. as a result, the forest is disappearing in the blue mud. the indigenous sammy are known to be rather reserved and not just in front of the camera, but this was the last straw. at 5 on friday, the sounds of logging no longer rang out in the ancient forest. getting hold of footage of loggers at work wasn't easy. this is a duty. yes, coo,
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20 years later in the same forest that was due to be cut down. for many years now, she's been teaching young people how to look after reindeer, and she has 6 grand children of her own. the forest, as he was inherited from our ancestors. it is it's our in heavy class. even if the land his own fight is big. and he, yoko, why rock? well, it's ho oh, on sale. oh so oh, for money. as she talks, she slips into her role as grandmother to quote the say that one thing i would be doing in a book likely without something work to do would be to play with my grandchildren.
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so how broke, there's a whole in depth 3. there must be a burden it to them and look how big the death that 3 can you read your hands, rowdy thorn who leave that hold on to that 3 for the saw me. the forest is a door to the natural world and to look back into their past. you know, it was what your grand grand grandfather who cut these 3 in this archival footage caliah. he padded shoes the way to a spot where the 1st snow had covered the signs of fresh felling. 10 years earlier, the state own forestry company had cut down a few trees here, but left many standing there. oh god,
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they didn't even tell us beforehand they just sent in a forest harvester. go to get all the remains will be cleared with buyers to the manager. there won't be anything level of or reindeer here for dozens of years. the winter and lapland, or stopped me as it's called by the indigenous sammy, people starts at the end of september. that's when things start to get tough for the reindeer that roam free. here. finding food is a struggle. 20 years later, there's been no further logging here. and the european union is keeping a watchful eye that it stays that way. for sammy reindeer hurt her cal evie potter that remains a triumph, but not one that he boasts about. this army often face defeat in their conflicts with the authorities. back then their cause was helped by the fact that major
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german publishers began refusing to buy timber from the ancient forests. here when calais, the powder walks through the forest, he doesn't just see the trees. he only has his reindeer and there needs in mind spotting things many others might miss good millicat for them. this small liken, grows on burtch's vital when there's nothing else i suppose habitually and it takes time for new like in to grow back longer than a human life span. he says, more like a century ago, you're gone plugin back then they stopped clear cutting. and we didn't lead up without them. there were more campaigns here been the room with and that's why it's been quiet here for years. up with the you can see it. we don't need to keep our
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animals and enclosures any more. they can roam freely through the woods and that is what even in winter and then he looks out over the land. he knows that a big mining company wants to look for or here. as soon as one threat is averted, the next appears on the horizon. but he refuses to give up. our journey continues in northern europe. from in ari in finland, we will head to the forests just to cross the border from won't oh. and then on to iga yadi in swedish lapland. our journey will end in norway in count. okay, know ah, at 1st glance sweden looks like one big forest. no other european country has so
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many trees. they cover close to 3 quarters of its land mass. but the gaps become more visible. the further north you go. in many places, it looks more like a lunar landscape, such as here, close to warn you on the border between sweden and finland, nearly 200 kilometers above the arctic circle. environmental activist, carolina, coastal and blame, swedish timber companies. greenpeace put signs up that red do not cut. and then on one of get info to see when you drive around here, you see one clear cut area after another school go and ask for what they've re planted here at. it bears no comparison, bad of mafia had him on all the trees are the same age and are planted in long rows . the. this is a very aggressive type of forestry management. these are tree plantations, not forests toronto. we can see what the environmental activist is talking about.
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40 kilometers further south. in other countries, individual trees tend to be selected for felling in sweden. it's more industrial. yeah. how to get clear cutting is a very rigid system. so everything and i mean everything is valid and removed as 30 to 40 years later, they thin out what they find dead milan. this works in opposition to nature rather than in harmony with it. a single forestry worker in a harvester can clear as much forest as 2 dozen lovers could in the past. the machines enormous tires leave behind packed soil and deep ruts in the ground. it's no surprise that it takes many years for anything to grow back. here too, there were plans to clear huge areas of forest belonging to sweden state own forest
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re company sway. ask oak. but as in in ari reindeer, herders and environmental activists joined forces to stop it from going ahead with patrols and months long demonstrations. the company with its upscale headquarters in downtown stockholm ultimately gave in to the pressure and the man at the helm bowed out. we meet the new c, e o eric brand smile in our interview. he accepts that mistakes were made. we previously haven't managed that conflicts and in an optimal way. and there have been situations where we have not advanced the possibilities for that, for, for, to render hers to, to practice their profession. back to the forests, owned by severe skulk, 4000 reindeer rome in the munoz, sammy hurting district on the border with finland in summer. there's enough food
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for them. and in the autumn, the semi wild animals like to eat mushrooms, we meet hands home on the chairman of the local reindeer heard in cooperative. does he believe the forestry companies knew promises? at the moment he says no logging is taking place and he hopes it will stay that way . it's high time. he adds thought martin one hold up in may. of course we hope that things will improve clermont, but that there will be a new course. when i go up, eric ron's, mom has come to see us up here. new new lot, to be honest. it's 30 years too late. and the chances i'm a bailey, but most of the old growth forests have disappeared until they mark can i stay? i've got winter in lapland is a tough time, and the changing climate and erratic weather patterns are making conditions even tougher. hunts homa has prepared as best he can. he regularly gives his herds
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supplementary. food liking contains carbohydrates in march and april. that's often all the animals have to eat in the wild. we sort of have to decrease the volumes that we take out if we want to have like consume place if we want to create course, create shelter and protection for the reindeer all joined all year. this has of course, i mean at least for now there's piece, the do not cut signs are being taken down the ones of them. we've saved about $150.00 trees or so in 13 forest areas that a lot of these are trees that's fast. cook was going to cut down last roosevelt. will the trees now have to do without your protection? yes. now it's up to see as coke or colleagues from greenpeace,
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can seem to sort of have enough trust at the moment that they lusty area and focus on other issues. i think that's a good song, spent the evening somewhere else. the swedish forestry company is also taking concrete steps. fiasco has announced a 20 percent cut in future annual felling. oh, lake yodi is in a forest near iowa. built in swedish lapland. the look town ma vos reindeer cooperative takes its animals here to graze in winter. fiasco oak was going to log here too, but so far hasn't reindeer herders. brita seen us. jagow leads us into her forest, but it's not actually hers. it's owned by others who can do pretty much what they want you, fatty. if the former you all are inside and you can cut down everything except to
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what's around the stone age encampments of our ancestors that day and that almost you are asked on the forest harvest is aren't allowed to directly encroach on them . it black them men of all back, got to add them to litigating since time immemorial, the forests around ika youdie have served as winter pasture for the reindeer. archaeologists can confirm that normally i am and this was probably the size of a fire pit and a traditional saw me tent, a cota within the must board. and this is of de la. the traces we've left behind are subtle walk with a trained eye. all you can see is the stone read a school goofy example. the forestry industry has changed all that within just one generation ended alan scott, beth, the intervention has changed the entire landscape. the trees have been felled and everything's turned upside down. a forest that has grown over 1000 years just
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disappears. all bus been the but i will try the longer you spend with the sammy, the more you come to see the world and the forest through their eyes. at 1st glance, this lodgepole pine plantation is just a dry canaveral forest that has been very densely planted. but for brita steen us jagow, it's deeply troubling. that bahati there rushed us on. this is the worst kind of 3 when it comes to reindeer heard. 8 am, i can talk to atlanta, it's an invasive species from north america. it's been widely planted. hero now went to pulse chanda also more. pompey valley stores. these trees have lots of needles, like which thickly carpet a forest flowing and b. after amada cosmic, it's an alien body or for it, it acts like a barrier through little saw the reindeer avoid these plantation either. my plant often rascal has now stopped planting pine has contorted it's
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latin name while it grows 40 percent faster than other pine species. it's a lot more vulnerable to high winds and or it also blocks out a lot of light. you can see how it stuns other forest growth just by looking at this little tree. yeah. can she sexual your? it's 26 and 27 years old and a quarter, but it still says small because the contorted pine has taken away. its light went off. alanna, it brita steen us jago could wish for any house. perhaps it would be this one here with its panoramic views, but it has a drawback. the entire land around the house belongs to the state. and sphere scope is responsible for managing this land. there may be a truce for now, but if you tend to think in centuries like this, army, people, just the thought of clear cutting is hard to bear. and how long will the piece last?
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may be swear, scope hasn't changed. it's weighs that much that on road that the ag out in the heflin harder that is ag. out at the late ask organism scave our causes fiscal reserve, fiscal calamity to log the whole area around the lake dana. so my lagoon for her value seth, an old saw me woman used to live here of wood that if you got to and she was almost 90 and she sold her house because she couldn't cope with clearing the snow and the, the watering dorcas got us near langer they're offering a german, i t expert bought it till, and he lives here full part of the year. some board i knew the a lot of water. i told him last year. what might happen them if you will, that they as good, clear cut the land rice around the house if it didn't get he was very disappointed and outraging or humbly supply? yes, the lesson yet to seek him. right now. it's still possible to walk through the woodland to get to the water. and what would a lunch break in the forest beat without
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a camp fire? started with the help of birch bark and it has the advantage of burning when it's damp fazio i think that and then there's spring water cache drunk out of a couple made from the thicker part of a tree where there was a not whole and a battered coffee pot that has obviously seen many a camp fire the hot over or this on the, at a new way and an old pine forest that isn't too dense. palms school get some that if you school these lie can on the forest floor and hanging from the trees and all those magnets rad them, the sammy would like to see this kind of forest everywhere, but for decades. so he has coke has been felling all trees that reach a certain age. what's left is a patchwork of primeval forest with an alt will, gaited on all by god,
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only 15 percent as left of the entire old forest home of his far some in that home . the rest has been cut down all by cut long. they owe you at them high. what's left, our little islands, lease oases that aren't connected. yeah. the landscape but on and these small areas of ancient forest are of course especially precious with theodore domes, more or more gonna at the moment. there aren't any animals grazing in the lakeside forest. they're still in the highlands, the swedish, yet the reindeer eat with they can find their grasses, bushes, mushrooms in late spring. but he justin us. ja goes reindeer intuitively find their way to the higher ground. and back to the valley where they were born. in late autumn, their sense of orientation takes them back to their winter grazing pastors to ega youdie. it would be ideal if the animals could actually find food here. and the co
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operative didn't have to buy commercial fodder to get them through the winter. but there's just not enough in these desolate woods. after hearing all that, you might think that's fair, skulked c, e. o. eric brown's mom would be well advised to come here to she really wants to restore faith in his company. we're headed now to cow to k no. one day. it could look like this across lapland. if the forest can no longer provide enough food due to unpredictable weather patterns and invasive species, these are scenes from norway and the ancestral home of the indigenous sammy, people. reindeer actually don't like getting
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too close to humans. especially pregnant animals. ah, we've reached northern norway. reindeer have been living here from time immemorial, more or less independently. do need to, but now more and more of them need to be fed with the old old people say the reindeers, i'd wanna read me. i'm not going to feed the radio, but now it's the opposite. now we have to feed the radio. well, there's a frenzy when father and daughter opened the sacks of food. the fodder is made from local grass and compressed in the factory.
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ah, this is referring to climate change with already here you can see the fates that might be awaiting other regions. the arctic is warming 4 times faster than the rest of the world. because you can see the range behind the year. 90 percent of those are pregnant female in spring may maybe get one called h if we're looking. mm. meanwhile, word has gotten out about the free lunch. a reindeer from a neighboring cooperative has snuck in.
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ah, property is sacred here. giving back a stray animal is a matter of honor. with the reindeer gets tied up like a parcel for the journey back to its own herd. then the reindeer herder explains what look at the reindeers right here? yeah, i, it has a different pattern than our reindeer of it on the tube, but munster for that ah, if the old growth forests could be saved, then these reindeer would have
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a chance of continued freedom and of surviving in the wilderness. surely it's worth a try to almost add more thought the entire forest gone, his emphasis cut down against our will beast. what your what off it feels unjust or so sound scott, you've done them and what will become of the wood, all the percent? 80 percent of it will be used up very quickly and most of it will be turned in to paper a better. mm. oh. oh.
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