but ibama suspects it's a front for illegal logging. [speaking brazilian portuguese] [chiwetel] they are looking for contraband timber, extracted illegally from protected areas. [speaking brazilian portuguese] [chiwetel] the bosses are missing. little can be done but to book the low-grade workers who are left behind. to those who want to save the rainforest, ibama have always been the good guys. but the odds have turned heavily against them.

ibama's strength has been drastically reduced. budget cuts, senior officers fired, operations cut back. even the loggers they catch are going unpunished, as the new government paves the way to open up the rainforest to agribusiness and mining. in the six hours it took to make the raid, elsewhere in the amazon another 1,300 acres of rainforest have disappeared forever. [antonio] everything thats living obeys the same principles, the circulation in the human body, the circulation in the rainforest. when we started looking into the water and how the water flows and how the water is manipulated by trees in so many ways, i start feeling like there should be a better parallel with human physiology or human workings, metabolism, and they found the, the, the analogy was a heart. 'cause its actually pumping. then, you have the rivers coming off the amazon. they are draining the tissues of nature. the tissues of the landscape. and you see, that is precisely what the blood does in our body. when the blood go through your tissues, it collects