the farmland often stayed in families for generations providing food throughout the year ruperto vasquez has planted mix crops to harmonize with the natural environment ensuring the plant enjoys decades of fertility time she offered him $5000.00 sold lease or about $1500.00 for his 20 hectare parcel not a political but are $5000.00 solar arrays a good thing that will last a week and then what there are people who've sold the land i don't know where to find work now they're looking at what their neighbor has in his garden so they can steal his crops but of course that i have on an aerial view shows the crops being cultivated on the time she plantation there surrounded by tall trees that block the view from ground level. over exploitation is destroying the ecosystem throughout the amazon an hour away by boat around the town of yukito the signs of deforestation are everywhere tropical wood is transported down the nanny river a tributary of the amazon ancient trees in the area have been wiped out sometimes the logging is legal often it's not the environmental consequences that are catastroph