we join environmental activist elizeu berÇacola in the state of rondÔnia in southern amazonia. izeu takes pictures of this tragedy in order to tell the authorities what is going on here. anything that can still move tries to escape the inferno. the smell is acrid. >> it's all about creating new pastures. the amazon r rain forest is beg burned down and destroyed. some parts of the forest die immediately. some trees initially survive the fire, only to fall latater. many animals are killed. >> endless fields of soyoya, whe once a huge forest used to stand. trucks loaded with farm goods thunder along the highway. pasturelands for cattle are being extended all the time. a few smallholders live on the edge of the protected rainforest area, like ederson and his wife. elizeu explains how the "agromafia" are destroying more and more of the area around their farm. but they've known that for a long time. they've been told to leave and received threats, even death threats. >> the situation is terrible. we live under constant threat that someone could come and take our lives. that's hard to