In the beginning i want something there was nothing. Just darkness and silence alone one man one day hes in the birds began to sing and the big trees fell to earth. In the morning in the morning bismarck the first members of my tribe awoke. And they lived for many generations at one with nature in the forests and trees. Nambla me my name is monday jacob ana. Im a holy chieftain from temple one new guinea and it embassador for the forest hills of it one i travel the world with a message for everybody. My forest is under threat and if we dont do something human kind will time. Soon there will be no going back. One plus. One day and this film is aimed at warning you of the disaster that will befall the world if we do not protect the earths big trees. On wall. Im going to build my tribe has always lived in the heart of one of the worlds last great virgin forests. Maybe youre not sure of our popular new guinea units doubling what months of admitting this is what the white man invented maps for. You can see that my country lies north of australia in the pacific ocean. Eatable i jumped in my language talked to xen the ancient forests that have existed since day one are called what your up agenda for a miti for us white man calls them virgin forests because theyre untouched by and in on one with become very rare and now only exist in the amazon basin the congo basin and here and couple in new guinea will open in them. All much because human beings are always leaving their mark. Wisdom tooth this forest does not belong to me alone but to all creatures that live in it. Not really include many beautiful than strange animals. And. Landed on his nose to them cannot be found anywhere else on the planet and like the tree kangaroo thats got the victoria crown to pinch on and my favorite. The part of paradise on me but ive got. A big brush and im above the biggest of them not a book is a rare bad tempered and belligerent loner himself who can kill a human being with its claws. Ems out i do one dont think of them brian we call this most dangerous of all jungle creatures johnny. Jedi whites call it the castle hearing thats what is. And good good gun free because it eats seeds and spreads them in its dropping this helps the forest regenerate. Then we regard as our ancestor generous and look a little before our forefathers hatched from the egg of a castle or it. Was a man who said like him or not i know every no can cranny every brook every branch and every leaf of the forest he was. Me apparently the trees produce the oxygen we breathe we need to look to be honest im not good at these things you probably will have to ask the scientists or research our planet me me too but i see my forest breathing every morning. This is what ma the big white man who keeps writing things in his notebook to look important as my french friend mark goes yeah i lost them through when i met him he had long hair and thats a long time ago and i was in love when i didnt know what his bald head he looks like anatomy just like me knows and loves the forest. Shes been photographing for more than twenty years. Monisha says there are more species of flora and fauna in the rainforest of Papua New Guinea than in all of europe. The forest covers seventy percent of the land and its home to more than twenty thousand species of plants fifteen hundred species of trees three thousand species of insects and more than seven hundred fifty species of birds that makes it a vital part of the worlds natural heritage. This is a magic plant to seduce women. In france im underage is interpreted in his homeland he teaches me about the secrets of the forest. Me money out of the forest and to be honest i have no clue about filming one to much thats why we are accompanied by a film crew. Here and francois are using all kinds of unusual cameras to help me tell my story. To us the forest is like a supermarket with everything we need to live. Through fruit seeds leaves mushrooms he guns and all kinds of edible and otherwise useful plants. Like the. Leaves that stimulate the circulation and relax the muscles after a long hike through the forest. Or rotten palms. Which we call. Stripped of its bark it makes for a very strong rope. My father taught me how to make this rope but he also showed me many delicious foods. Like the poop or sago worm. I know you find these worms disgusting but to me theyre no different to boy stories or snails so. All are people like them in. This forest was left to us by our ancestors generalising nurtured it for generations so that we too would find plenty of food here. This is on the way in the way this is my tree. My father planted it when i was born three not me i was not born in a hospital but on the forest floor on a bed of leaves and the way he. Grew up together i stayed small but the tree grew large even as a white beard. And got what they had to. Make up just like me. Which of us will die first me and. I dont know. And. Thats my motto when i die. Theyll bury me here with my family. And big brother. You feels good to hold you in my arms. I mean im a child of the forest and my cried for the first time under a tree and i will die. If my forest still exists. You know im a witness and a bridge between cultures and im here to tell you that my forest is under threat. I want you to see with your own eyes by me. The. Time you got while you watch this film more than one hundred fifty big trees will be felled in my homeland that makes many thousand per day on the land monday. Edition madness map shows all the areas that have already been cleared and those for which permits have been issued your scientists reckon that by two thousand and twenty one half of my forest could be gone. In the province of sundown one of the worst affected and a contact smuggled us into one of the forestry operations. Just roger are they cutting down trees here thats what you need go one month up all that ice and now i know that. You mean well but yes for five years now. Right i dont get that. This is a storage area i need them down a bit. It was careful with a drawn pier we cant afford to be caught. So you just you know nice you know got a night ill keep the windows closed im not so the boss is concious as you know he moved as soon as were out of the storage area ill take you to the web because i me and the village where that i dont slip them and im going to because both of them are going to. Ok roger know where hes so nobody will see us i mean i often asked for permission but they always refuse to show me calmly they dont want to see what theyre doing here is a phony you want us here when you think you cant. Look on the balcony i must be one of the bosses no one in the sink now or out of the storage area and we can talk to the lumberjacks and pop a grown up to one of them one i dont want. To be seen in pigeon proper ground is a very important word in their native land owners. Our forests valleys and mountains traditionally belong to the clans who have to give their approval to forestry i do not deny you know not simply. Playing. For her. Love of odonnells or me a month but its also papa grant natives like me who work for the Timber Companies stands on they operate chainsaws and drive the bulldozers was the only way they can make a living. They sell their trees and even fell them themselves for a meager wage but how can i resent them they dont want to live like animals. Or as are going there are hired by foreigners from malaysia the philippines or indonesia as. We call them kong caldwells month as they are in charge we carry out their orders usually man and therefore men are not bad people just poor people who are in a living by knocking down our trees and i didnt miss foreman even let us film. The movie. Us. Long one day every day the chainsaws eat their way through the tree trunks like rock bands im big on they fall the trees let out great cries of pain as if they were saying goodbye. To. You. And i make you sad to knock down all these trees yeah. It was and yes sometimes inside of me. Because we thought of lots of trees and when hes huge trees full us they also damage the trees around of the never do michael. And the doing nine just are you glad to have this word. Any make it of course and it means i can earn my familys keep it snowballed by a muslim sending me i need your. Money yes you have to survive without this work you would go hungry. You know in the. Us so far the government has issued more than three hundred forestry permits nationwide about forty six million hectares of forest more than fifteen million next. Shares are used by foreign firms thats a third of the total surface area its like having a third of france invaded by bulldozers and chainsaws. Usually the foreign firms are looking for two kinds of tree marigold for floors and furniture and bent on car for plywood. They are lie as in phoenix they fell the trees and pay us peanuts one thousand two thousand. Five thousand kina one sandal five doesnt get a cent and somebody knows that over eighty of remove like you know. They destroyed everything but did not spend a cent on the new clinics who dont preach. Oh many of the well you know you know what we have nothing to show for it but of those that are old how far its just gone out of us and we got nothing for it we would rebuild will develop absolutely nothing it really is right im going to lose nothing to what was left when it was he was it on the he i mean all one one the problem is that a few educated people signed the contracts without getting the locals permission of people falling on one point we complain the Malaysian Companies just bribe our own police. And then they come and arrest us and scare us police. Well thats the problem. Weve got other officers so often but the police are already way to stop needing guns and like all these emphatic twenty one day. You volition first roomie you know many here its not fair they are our police not malaysias they have the same skin color and hair as i do why do they defend the interests of the lumber company and fight against us its our own corrupt governments fault they should declined our land and my people people really. Well as if i understand it only if we allow these firms to destroy our forests we must think about what will happen to our children and. They will have to settle on the lands of another try to avoid starvation that will be the result by design Something Like around you so you pray for our weak force. And without it you know not what you would have no where to go to live in peace i have not seen don i dont like going. Up in beneath the trees that were knocked down or taken away from the tribal areas of the papa ground and special trucks called cigars what i mean is i mean i have no idea what sigur means but i know where all these trucks are going you know when you go there taking all the timber to the coast world be loaded on to ships. Is it up its a tree graveyard here as mud monkey run away. Mark come here. Stand in front of us it is it well. I want to measure this tree. Now you know. Look it reaches up to your ears. So kind as it is i do have trees this thicket on somebody in a lot. Of trees this beggar very rare in france this time the way i am when i want that the way of history is one. The oldest in the world it may have been the first train of all time lows is that maybe it was the father of all trees the little we can plant new trees but with Climate Change and environmental damage theyll never get so big and. No more trees like this. How old do you think it is a musket is most said it must be seven or eight hundred years old. They will tell the tree that is as old as the earth itself just to sell it to china. Human will not move them our children and grandchildren will never get to see a tree like this one of them does it on the way to know what used to be there or like it your camera to make when you look if you come out of them you go. Ok deserve it dont smile no this is serious this might be the last big tree on the planet the way you want me what you want them i want to take a photo for future generations. Nobody generosity. Hes mine about me. For us and im the son of the forest so i do not feel like smiling that you are a white man you can be happy. One one time once a month the huge trunks are loaded onto cargo ships and in our trees leave my country and. Me happy so you can fit more than three thousand trees on a single ship or some we want to check that with a flying camera. Eagle fly said you know both. So you can get it will. Be not. Happen again he has been the Worlds Largest exporter of tropical wood since twenty fourteen every year almost five million solid cubic. Meters leave the country mainly in the form of on processed trucks the International Community has introduced rules against illegal cutting. Me nobody in my home country knows what happens to the border. So mark and i showed the film to the public around zero sundown. And they went right you know me they fell our creams and load them on to ships. But you have no idea where theyre going or will happen to them. Some didnt you mess with this film is about him i dont he said im not. For the trees are transferred into the hole to the ships. Nowadays there are strict controls to make sure timbers from legal sources are temper is brought to regular china. Malaysia a traitor was secretly filmed admitting to making false claim i am not running away from the way. They were bro you mean they chop up our wood and turn it into planks paper boxes drawers chairs and much more. I wonder what they are not. One of them didnt. Want to. Well never no one brought. Someone in they send these things to new Zealand Australia america not europe. Theyre trading in our trinkets and. Business. You know we dont know how much. People from the far east. Thirty five kenyans for cubic metre of wood is thats a fair price. Maybe on one many or simple people and cannot tell. Companies trick us. A solid cubic metre of my boat was worth more than twelve hundred cleaners on the world market but they only pay us thirty five keynotes and thirty five. Care about is probably. Not a hundred if they should be helping our country to develop and make decent contracts. Give us what they hide the truth because otherwise they would not be allowed to sell our lumber im. Like everyone here i sell my trees to the malaysians couldnt our government Favor Companies that help us to develop our country in our community. There are International Certification programs that oblige lumber companies to contribute to the development of the region where they fell their trees. Were not only the proper ground benefit. If schools and hospitals are built everyone benefits from the sales of our trees or money or number of country or by international by the way. One person the saddest thing for me is that we dont spend a little bit of money we get for our trees on our own development thats our own mistake and with the exception of hank the proper ground dont like to admit it laurie. Money company gave you above eight hundred eighty and it wanted you know the Companies Pay us big money. One hundred thousand two hundred thousand three hundred thousand pinas. But the people make nothing out of it pina the men marry new wives and live like kings some spend millions of kenya zombies we will its the same with all landowners here then you. Imply must you see will we Land Ownership take responsibility and spend the money wisely on building solid houses sending our children to school investing in our future will go to school. Helping these streams are a gift from the heavens and we should use them sparingly just not. Listenings gordon giving them a block. From. Over the harbor everywhere in my country when the environment is under threat. In the old days it was protected by the constitution and common law. Broke some of the animals of the forest were our property that nobody could take without our permission. Changed in two thousand and seven with a new law called. That introduced a kind of leasing a system. Originally it was intended to help the proper ground to develop agricultural projects but in reality it meant the kong kong were able to exploit our country and press ahead with deforestation. There were many demands for the abolition of. What the politicians were. Nobody except the governor of a province getting. Woman always wears black as a symbol of his green. We call him and his bodyguards the men in black. Men in black. Ok mom dont like one of them today were going to carry out a raid in coral bay the company should already have stopped operations i want to check whether they are here legally selling lumber some more gold which im right we are not the only problems for the s. A. B. Also banned and the malaysians cant just cut down all the trees and fill their pockets at our peoples expense he went on a kind of want to give me my money on the books and im sixty percent most lowlife sixty percent of these people arent even allowed to be here because they have no work permits are for us are being plundered throughout the country but not in our province. So if i want to carry out a little inspection mission. Right now theres going to little control in most of the provinces the little business what he had to take whatever they want and they make enormous profits besides making the profits that they do on the sale of the team by their often evading all voiding the pavement of texas they dont build anything just better little infrastructure they leave. The forest that area the world doesnt care that it is these trees that provide the hit that they breathe without these trees with forests the world would not have the fresh air that they do now you see yet they want to preserve these but theyre not willing to common losses in any way its not yes the people in the countryside are poor and cant defend their forests or do you think its fifty kinos their eyes widen and theyre happy because they can live for another day not all hope in my not wanting something they dont know about the origin of the. Government is failing because in these areas theyre slow development so the people are so stopped off development that theyre willing to give all the away so few of us what i will whats happening we have to link up with our people in the village just like all gypsy up and work with them and say look the. Its time to take action to protect olenda law future this processing plenty of we have allowed it to stay you know bridge and of course there are those strict proceed ok then what should be no problems but i found out that they have mentioned have been shipping out from under the bed with it all on a mission. Cut. To fit the bill. For. Some little. Goes the job on the job. A. Good. Thing if youre a. Good fit ok ill burst through a pretty. Astonishing. To see something. Else if you. Stick. To snuggle these things with them. So for now back to the. Sofa you dont understand what your view. Goes to those who knows a. Little bit. Of. A skill workers who come in bring water plus whats up. Whats your name. You turn chai ok from malaysia also. Spoke ok come have ok well see you know ok. You have your password i just not your ok and you also. And i your training any of our local stuff a lot. And we think. The problem is that many of these people do go into with limit requirements the work permit says that they had to provide training opportunities for all citizen employees they never trained anyone. They come and work and make money and dont train anybody and they go im going to write for any of you brought it to teach you anything. Youve learned nothing so much about the news of what. You want to walk. Its probably unfair to wasc you any questions because im curious i want to know what he says before. I Say Something just. So well. Thank you for us to you dont because you. Mostly like. The companies that are coming in there are pests they have no consideration for people all the environment all the future when they see a tree or daisy is a good big one but that dream is to drop it to the bank to. Get is what im going to drop are closed all timber operations in order province this is the last one but its days are numbered. And love my country is poor and we want a development we have few roads really no one on your old me wonder gary jus for we inaugurated a new bridge connecting a remote forest area with the road network they got on blue said it. Hit the British Company but if i myself am a bridge between the world of the white man and on the earth its not saturday humankinds biggest worry is Climate Change up so you may the whole world is looking for solutions to the mechanism doesnt in so you mean we cannot do much ourselves but we have to take care of our forests we should always remember that not involving bush. In the morning to do it from the road these are constructed bolingbrook trying to get like a good. Amount of any good amount of good fun being loaded on to. The news the real france on our trip to france. I want to see the forests and not detain. Its not a virgin friday but we have it on booze or youre one of the biggest planted forests in europe i realized that the white brown also has a lot of lordly and i was astonished at how its harvested oral muscles are more your body they also pleased to me you. Look id be delighted to show you our trees after all were both foresters so close to you at the other end of the world and me here in the morning sun you want to miss where similar one come to your father or grandfather planted these trees for you and i inherited the forest from my ancestors to blend in them but its exactly the same so you may want thats all you can just sit here. You plant trees like corn on my you brought up by me and be blessed that i. Only know theres nothing bad about felling trees theyve always grown and theyre useful to people. Or what if the white people have so many forests of their own why are they calling our trees. If theres anyone watching this film who can explain that to me please do it on me. Dont play on the bus this is the section forest and miscellaneous. Here its all about planting and here its about timber energy and mechanized operations and sick you just. As we did you. Know ill show you the different kinds of plants that grow in archy ten then i dont do to supply these plants and trees are all used for different purposes to reach for example is good for making furniture and sweet chestnut for parquet floors need the salad to keep the high salt so these are the trees you plant so features over any way they go into yes this is what maritime pines look like when theyre small im going to order several thousand of them to reforest cleared areas. And you got thats a lot of trees. Its a. Real good look like like. Ok. So. All of those. Oh no. Thats to the world where renewing the forest here through reforesting were obliged by law to plant new trees within five years of clearing. The way to my home country foreign firms are destroying the forests without planting anything afterwards they felt very old trees without thinking about the future at all they run will bust. So they could have to go it is indeed very important to replace felled trees so. Theyre growing quick. I once wrote. In my country we also planted trees very many but only one time. It looks like a tough to grouse. In talking about the oil palm. Beach. Many coastal areas of. The rainforest was replaced with huge plantations where the locals work. And i did mine. After the harvesting the fruits are pressed to make the most widely used oil in the world. Palm oil and chocolate cookies and many other products at a plantation near put on debt and i met a man from my area and. I. Say i didnt tell you were both from the mountains nice to see you. We seem to be doing well. Have been youre making good money brought all what i can do. Is your money in a dry work. Yes im happy i earn one hundred day and i have a house with electricity and running water. One hundred eighteen hours a day one hundred the rest. It was a like here before at all jungle. Yes. There was a big forest tales. And destroyed the forests around the region but if we do not protect our remaining forests we will never again see the kind of your wearing on your head and. On up looking. Down yes we must preserve our virgin forests the Companies Must help us develop sustainability so that the poor benefit. Theres a lot its not easy to find a balance let me come by you me. Some of the destroyed forests being replaced by Palm Oil Plantations with which we earn money but its at the expense of natural diversity birds of paradise cassowary and other species are disappearing. All thats left of the mill this birds. My friends. You you mean i you mean we all love the forest the one one man but were also contributing to its destruction. You grew up on the ground we pamper ground for all our trees for a handful of keenness whether kong kong make a huge profit selling them or in the rest of the world buys our wood to keep their feet warm by the way rim let me one privately by mr tribal chieftains from popular new guinea but ive come here to warn the world of the when all the trees have disappeared we the people will die too. Or so only we can prevent the end of the world and when all there will be a silence that side in darkness. D. W. True diversity. Where the world of science is at home in many languages. On top of that ive been going there it would be. Left up to our innovations magazine for in. The classroom every week and always looking to the future on t. W. Dot com of science and research for asia. Dangerous and why im going to. Play mention of. A trip by an airplane seventeen thousand kilometers in six weeks going to breathtaking landscapes claim forgettable experience a. Touching story. 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