By staying in the beginning like one plus something there was nothing going on no could not just darkness the black and silence lonely one man one day easing the birds began to sing and the one in the big trees fell to earth. In the morning in the morning biz mundo that i brought the first members of my tribe awoke. They lived for many generations at one with nature in the forests and trees. Nambla me my name is monday j. Kapunda. Im a hooley chieftain from temple one new guinea and in embassador for the forest 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. Im going to build my club has always lived in the heart of one of the worlds last great virgin forests. Maybe youre not sure of our popular new guinea is when is doubling what months of admittance is what the white man invented maps for. You can see that my country lies north of australia in the pacific ocean. Eatable in my language the top is in the ancient forests that have big sisters since day one are called what europe agenda for a lady for a white man calls them virgin forests because theyre untouched by the nine one with a become very rare and now only exist in the amazon basin in the congo basin and here in coppell in new guinea will abandon them. All much because human beings are always leaving their mark. This forest does not belong to me alone but to all creatures that live in it. Not really include many beautiful and strange animals. And. Landed on his nose to them cannot be found anywhere else on the planet and like the tree kangaroo. The victoria crowned a pigeon and my favorite. The curse of paradise on me might have been. The right animal but the biggest of them not because a rare bad tempered and belligerent loner im sorry you can kill a human being with its claws time and stop to wonder im kinda done brian we call this most dangerous of all jungle creatures journey. Jedi whites call it the castle wearing thats what. Im good good gun for because it eats seeds and spreads them in its droppings and helps the forest regenerate. Then they regard as our ancestor generous and will do good for our forefathers hatched from the egg of a castle where i. Was a man who some like him but the woman i know every know can crash every brook every branch and every leaf of the forest it was. Me apparently the trees produce the oxygen we prefer to look to be honest im not good at these things you probably will have to ask the scientists to research our planet me but i see my forest breathing every morning. This is what my the big white man who keeps writing things in his notebook to look important as my french friend mark goes here boston through when i met him he had long hair and thats a long time ago and it was a mob and i didnt know what his bald head he looks like and i had me just like me you know those and loves the forest. Which hes been photographing for more than twenty years. 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. As this is a magic plant to seduce women. In france im underage as interpreted in his homeland he teaches me about the secrets of the forest. Me my mom out of the forest and to be honest i have no clue about filming one to much thats why were accompanied by a film crew. Here in france one are using all kinds of unusual cameras to help me tell my story this is studying. To us the forest is like a supermarket with everything we need to live. Through root seeds leaves mushrooms he guns and all kinds of edible and otherwise useful plants. Need to eat like the new king 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 posters or snails so. All are people like them in. This forest was left to us by our ancestors. Nurtured it for generations so that we too would find plenty of food here. This is on the way into april me this is my tree. My father planted it when i was born three i was not born in a hospital but on the forest floor on a bed of leaves. The way to. Grow up together i stayed small but the tree grew large even as a white beard. And got. Me got just like me. Which of us will die first. I dont know. And. When i die. Theyll bury me here with my family. And big brother. You feels good to hold you in my house. I mean im a child of the forest i might cry 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. To tell you that my forest is under threat. I want you to see with your own eyes by me. The new blood while you watch this film more than one hundred fifty big trees will be felled in my homeland that makes many thousand per day in the wind monday. Madness mountain one 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 hes a contact smuggled us into one of the forestry operations. Just roger are they cutting down trees here thats what you need go or not got dogs and i said no no that number you mean one will get yes for five years now. Five i dont get that. This is a storage area money down town ok. It was careful with the drawn pier we cant afford to be caught. So you question then if you dont got a night no keep the windows closed i dont know so the bosses cant see us as you know i mean he moved as soon as were out of the storage area ill take you to the work because me and the peanuts way that i dont slip them and im going to become a monk and im. Ok roger no worries so nobody will see us on anything i often ask for permission but they always are a few martial me i know commonly they dont want to see what theyre doing here is only you when you say one thing thinking you. Can come to look on the balcony i must be one of the bosses you know me you seem to now are out of the storage area then we can talk to the lumberjacks and the papa grow out of the point come on out of the room. The vision in pigeon proper grown is a very important word meaning 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 maps. Place for her. Up of the nose on me a month but its also papa grande natives like me who work for the Timber Companies stands on they operate chainsaws and drive the bulldozers with the only way they can make a living. They sell their trees and even fell them themselves for a meager wage but i resent them they dont want to live like animals on your neck. Or. Are going there hired by foreigners from malaysia the philippines or indonesia. We call them cong call. Us theyre in charge we carry out their orders is a man and therefore men are not bad people just poor people or no living by knocking down our trees and i didnt miss foreman even let us film. The movie. Long one day every day the chainsaws eat their way through the tree trunks like right by now im big when they fall the trees are cries of pain not even as if they were saying good bye to each of. You will. Never make you sad to knock down all these trees. Yes sometimes im sad im going to do right because weve got a lot of trees and when a huge trees fall us they also damage the trees around but we never do anything so all new guy has had to do a nine different implant to have this word. Then make it of course and it means i can earn my familys keep. Snow by inlaws one of them to me i need. Only you know you have to survive without this work you would go hungry. You know live in the. Gate my understand this. New government in. So far the government has issued more than three hundred forestry permits nationwide about forty six million hectares of forest more than fifteen million hectares 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 trees marable 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 peanuts understand all five doesnt get the same. And somebody knows that over. Here in the now they destroyed everything but did not spend the sentiment clinics school or bridge. Only thing when you know you know what we have nothing to show for it but ive noticed that the roads are forests gone out of us and we got nothing for it. Absolutely nothing that really brought im not all know what. When im a citizen and were here and we all one one the problem is that a few educated people sign the contracts without getting the locals permission people and when we complain the Malaysian Companies just bribe our own police. Then they come and arrest us and scare us. Well thats the problem. Weve got other officers so often but the police were already waiting nonstop didnt like them like all these rubber bullets. Youve always roomy you know money here you know 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 companies and fight against us its our own corrupt governments fault they should be kind and my people people room. But i understand you only if we allow these firms to destroy our forests we must think about what will happen to our children and we will. They will have to settle on the lands of another try to avoid starvation that will be the result of. This not something look around you so you pray for our way well you mean were standing by need to treat it protects us from the sun city. And its on in this government and its shape is good for us. And without it you know not you would have nowhere to go to live in peace im had the scene down im not likely. To be nice the trees that were knocked down are taken away from the tribal areas of the papa ground on special trucks called figures sort of minutes i dont mean i have no idea what cigar means but i know where all these trucks are going. Theyre taking all the timber to the coast world be loaded on to ships. Is it up its a tree graveyard here is mud mud run do what. Mark come here. Stand in front of this it is it well. I want to measure this tree. Now you know. Look it reaches up to your ears ok so kind of isnt isnt us. Trees this thick i dont know somebody. But i just like no trees the speck are very rare and french is underway in winter that the way of history is one of the oldest in the world in the way it may have been the first tree of all time. Is that maybe it was the father of all trees little we can plant new trees but with Climate Change and environmental damage theyll never get so big and want to. Be no more trees like this. How old do you think it is doing a musket is moss 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 beginning will never get to see a tree like this one of them does it on the way to know what you see there while i get your camera genetically it will keep you coming up to me go. Ok this is a little bit dont smile no this is serious this might be the last big tree on the planet and the way you will not be what you want them i want to take a photo for future generations. Nobody generosity. Hes mine about me but for us and im the son of the forest so i do not feel like smiling youre 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. We have you so you can fit more than three thousand trees on a single ship oh some we want to check that with the flying camera outside income of the eagle flight all said you know both. So young but it will. Be no. Papua new guinea has been the Worlds Largest exporter of tropical wood since twenty fourteen every year almost five million solid cubic metres leave the country mainly in the form of unprocessed trucks the International Community has introduced rules against illegal cutting. Me nobody in my home country knows what happens to the wood. So mark and i showed the film to the public around no sun down. Am do when you know me they fell our cream and load them on to ships. But you have no idea where theyre going and it will happen to them. Some didnt thats what this film is about him i dont do that on the. Trees or transferred into the hold of the ships. Nowadays there are strict controls to make sure timber is from legal sources are timber is brought directly to china. Malaysia a trader was secretly filmed admitting to making false claim i am not running away from the way. That. They are now. 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 make them wonder. Well never no one but i wasnt one of these in my must. Someone else how do they send these things to new Zealand Australia im an american on your own. Theyre trading in our trading. Business. You know we dont know much. People from the far east. Thirty five tinas for us only to cubic meter of wood is that a fair price. Be wrong on many or simple people and cannot tell. Or why companies trick us. A solid cubic metre of my boat is worth more than twelve hundred cleaners on the world market but they only pay r. s thirty five kilos and thirty five enough to. Care about is probably. Not about condit 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. Like everyone here i sell my trees to the malaysian. 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 felt their trees. Were not only the proper ground benefit. If schools and hospitals are built everyone benefits from the sales of our trees under my brother and you are by interested in by the way. One of 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. People Money Company do with eighteen idea and it well but 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 peanut the men marry new wives and live like kings some spend millions of kenya zombies we will its the same with all landowners here and you. Imply must be 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 school. Helping these streams are a gift from the heavens and we should use them sparingly. Blessings gordon give him a block. From. Her. Over the harbor everywhere in my country when the environment is under threat. In the old days our land 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 and called as a. 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 that kong kong were able to exploit our country and press ahead with deforestation. There were many demands for the abolition of the s. A. P. O. But the politicians werent interested. Nobody except the governor of auto province getting. Son of an irishman union woman always wears black as a symbol of his green forest we call him and his bodyguards the men in black. Like woman and today were going to carry out a raid in. A company should already have stopped operations i want to check whether they are here legally selling lumber. We are not the only province where the s. A. P. O. Ban the malaysians cant just cut down all the trees and fill their pockets at our peoples expense. Sixty percent sixty percent of these people arent even allowed to be here because they have no work permits our forests are being plundered throughout the country but not in our products. So if i want to carry out a little inspection mission. Right know theres going to control in most of the provinces opus will he have to take whatever they want and they make enormous profits besides making the profits that they do on the sale of the team by delta and evading all voiding the payment of texas they dont build anything dismembered little infrastructure they leave them de forest that area. That he does these trees that provides that they breed with these trees with forests the world would not have the friendship that they do now you see yet they want to preserve these bought them up willing to common law systems in any way. Yes the people in the countryside are poor and county from their forests or do you think it fifty kinos their eyes wide now and theyre happy because they can live for another day not all hope in my not wanting something that im about to stop them or you know to keep. His failing because in this area still slow development so the people are so stopped off development that theyre willing to give away so few of us what i will whats happening we have to link up with our people in the villages. And work with them and say look it is time to take action to protect our land of my future this Processing Plant here we have allowed it to stay you know peroration course they have downstream processing ok theyre not shipping off from blokes but i found out that they have actually been shipping out from time to time without the no zero emission. Cuts. To. Their. This is the truman show. Good. Thing youre. Good yes ok ive got a few more prison. Time this. Must be something. Else as you. 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