Then in the beginning lead one to something there was nothing wrong. Just darkness and silence alone one man one day is in the birds begin to sing and the big trees fell to earth. In the morning in the morning bismarck the first members of my tribe awoke. And goes a little for many generations at one with nature in the forests and trees. Nambla me my name is monday jake up on the. Right im a holy chieftain from the temple one new guinea and then 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 blood in. 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 the way back on the wall. Im going to build my car has always lived in the heart of one of the worlds last great virgin forests. Maybe youre not sure where popular new guinea is doubling what months of it making this is what the white man invented maps for. You can see that my country lies north of australia in the pacific ocean. I jumped in my language talked to xen the ancient forests that have existed since day one are called what you dont put agenda for a middy for the white man calls them virgin forests because theyre untouched by mean on one with a become very rare and now only exist in the amazon basin the congo basin and here and couple in new guinea lot of it in 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 pigeon and my favorite. The part of paradise only. The raw animal but the biggest of them not a book is a rare bad tempered and diligent loner himself who can kill a human being with its claws time ems out to one dont think of them brian we call this most dangerous of all jungle creatures journey. Jedi whites call it the castle wearing thats what it is. And good good gun country because it eats seeds and spreads them in its dropping this helps the forest regenerate. Then we regard as our ancestor generous and will do good for our forefathers hatched from the egg of a cancer it. Was a man who said like him 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 to look to be honest im not good at the cynics you play you have to ask the scientists to research our planet me me look but i see my forest breathing every morning. This is what mine the big white man who keeps writing things in his notebook to look important as my french friend mark goes boston through when i met him he had long hair and thats a long time ago and it was a map and i dont know what his bald head he looks like going to hand me just like me knows and loves the forest. Which hes 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. As 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 one of the amount 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 in 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 it seeds leaves mushrooms he comes in all kinds of edible and otherwise useful plants. Need he like the nickie leaves that stimulate the circulation and relax the muscles after a long hike through the forest. Or rot on bombs. 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. You know you find these forms 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 im going to. Design the way into a brownie this is my tree. My father planted it when i was born three noname i was not born in a hospital but on the forest floor on a bed of leaves. The way. We grew up together i stayed small but the tree grew large even as a white beard. And that what they had to. Make up just like me. Which of us will die first me and. I dont know. And thats when i die. Theyll bury me here with my family. And big brother. You feel good to hold you in my arms. I mean im a child of the forest and my cry for the first time under a tree and i will die any day 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. New blood while you watch this film more than one hundred fifty big trees will be felled in my own land that makes many thousand per day in the wind plenty. Man this 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 mean go or not but ill bet i said now i know that. You mean well but yes for five years now. Ive got to get over it that. This is a storage area money going out ok. Be quite careful with the drawn pier we cant afford to be caught. So you must be nice you know got a night ill keep the windows closed im not so the boss is concious message im easy move but soon as were out of the storage area ill take you to the web because i me and the peanuts with and i dont slip them and im going to because both of them im going to. Ok roger know where he is so nobody will see us anything i often ask for permission but they always refuse are so common they dont want to see what theyre doing here is a phony knew what he was and wants him to come to. Look on the balcony i must be one of the bosses know me using now or out of the storage area and then we can talk to the lumber jars and pop a grown up to point them one i did before. The recession in pigeon proper grown is a very important word and mean their native land owners. Our forests valleys and mountains traditionally belong to the clans who have to give their approval to forestry i didnt i didnt know your limits here he hates. Being a. Hearing and her behavior. Up of a gun also me a month but its also papa grant natives like me who work for the Timber Companies instance on they operate chainsaws and drive the bulldozers its 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 on the net or. Are going to theyre hired by foreigners from malaysia the philippines or indonesia even if. We call them kong kong balls as theyre in charge we carry out their orders theres a man and therefore men are not bad people and just poor people that were living by knocking down our trees he said i didnt miss foreman even let us film me real well the movie. In a. Long one day every day the chainsaws eat their way through the tree trunks like rock bands and im big when they fall the trees let out great cries of pain i mean even as if they were saying goodbye to a if. Youll listen or make you sad to knock down all these trees yeah. Yes sometimes i think. Because weve got a lot of trees and wendy thank you trees for they also damage the trees around probably never do i think so many of us are going to do a nine digit im glad to have this word. They make it of course and it means i can earn my familys keep snow by inlaws one of them to me i need. To you know as you have to survive without this work you would go hungry. You know in the d. M. V. You know my understand as im glad rob has a new president and. 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. Was interesting. They are lie as in fields they fell the trees and payoffs peanuts one thousand two thousand. Five thousand kina one channel five doesnt get a cent it was a Company Knows that over eighty of them and like you know him now they destroyed everything but did not spend the sentiment clinics who dont preach. Oh many of the well you know you know what can you say and we have nothing to show for it by or of those that are all off forced this. Gone out of us and we got nothing for it. Absolutely nothing it really brought im not all know what. Women are here and we all one one the problem is that a few educated people sign the contracts without getting the locals permission of people and when we complain the Malaysian Companies just bribe our own police. Then they come and arrest us and scare us. Thats the problem. Weve got other officers so often but the police were already waiting nonstop didnt like them and like all these emphatic there you go. 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 wrong. Well as a broad understanding lia 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 the Something Like around you so youre right where are we now you mean were standing many to treat it protects us from the sun little. On the midst of and its shade is good for us. And without it you know not you would have nowhere to go to live in peace im hardness in don i look like leg. In beneath the trees that were knocked down or taken away from the tribal areas of the papa ground on special trucks called zegers sort of minnows i mean i have no idea what say your means but i know where all these trucks are going. Theyre taking all the timber to the coast world be loaded on to ships. This it up into a tree graveyard as mud mud run do what. Mark come here. Stand in front of us it is it well. I want to measure this tree. By you know. Look it reaches up to your ears so kind as it is going to have. Trees this thick i dont know somebody. But i just you know trees this back are very rare in france theres only way im when im out of any way of history is one of the oldest in the world in the way it may have been the first tree of all time lows 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 well i dont. Mean no more trees like this. How old do you think it is doing mama skin is moss said it must be seven or eight hundred years old. They tell the tree that is as old as the earth itself just to sell it to china with. Human on the move them our children and grandchildren beginning well never get to see a tree like this one of them does it on the way to know what used to be there and i get your camera genetically you will think a matter of me go. Ok i deserve it but dont smile no this is serious this might be the last big tree on the planet the way you will not be what you are some i want to take a photo for future generations are all noble and generous and. Hes mine and i got me. Im a 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. 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 friday said you know both. So you know what it will. Be most. Papua new guinea 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 wood legally so mark and i showed the film to the public around zero sundown. And the way 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 you mess with this film is about him i dont descend on the. Trees are transferred into the holes of the ships. Nowadays there are strict controls to make sure timber is from legal sources are timber is brought to regulate in china. Theres no money no lation 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 doors chairs and much more. I wonder what they are not. One of them didnt. Do a brilliant will never no one brought. Someone in they send these things to new Zealand Australia im an american on your i dont know your. Theyre trading in our trade. On the walking business run them to a brilliant us you know we dont know much. People from the forest they pay us thirty five keenness for us only to cubic meter of wood is that a fair price to give us the wrong one many people cannot turn out or why companies trick us. A solid cubic meter of my boat is worth more than twelve hundred cleaners on the world market but they only pay earns thirty five kilos and thirty five in a. Moment care about is probably. Not a rendezvous they should be helping our country to develop and make decent contract to smuggle many good and give us what they hide the truth because otherwise you would not be allowed to sell our lumber do everyone. Needing you like everyone here i sell my trees to the malaysians but couldnt our government Favor Companies that help us to develop our country and our community in country not only also the morrow there are International Certification programs that oblige lumber companies to contribute to be relevant to the region where they fell their trees. Are by and given they were not only the proper ground benefit. If schools and hospitals are built everyone benefits from the sales of our trees and you are by interested in 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 mystic and with the exception of hank the papa ground dont like to admit it laurie. Eight hundred nine hundred one but you know the Companies Pay us big money. One hundred thousand two hundred thousand or three hundred thousand peanuts. But the people make nothing out of it. The men marry new wives and live like kings some spend millions of kenya zombie and. Its the same with all landowners here and you. May blow. Should take responsibility and spend the money wisely on building solid housing sending our children to school investing in our future school. These streets are a gift from the heavens and we should use them sparingly just lot. More than giving them a block. Over the harbor everywhere in my country and the environment is under threat boston in the old days our land was protected by the constitution and common law trees the brooks and the animals of the forest where our property was that nobody could take without our permission. I mean. That all changed in two thousand and seven with a new law called s a b o it 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 but in that there were many demands for the abolition of the s. C. B. Also in them and what the politicians werent interested on got is nobody except a governor or a province get a job what mine the son of an irishman not a proper no union woman always wears black as a symbol of his grief over our forests we call him and his bodyguards the men in black. Men in black. Ok you dont like one one and 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 books which im right we are not the only problems for the s. A. P. O. And the malaysians cant just cut down all the trees and fill their pockets at our peoples expense that you might not even on a kind of want to me to be my money in the box 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 very little control in most of the provinces little business what you 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 their often evading law voiding the payment of texas they dont build anything dismembered little infrastructure that they leave their de forest that area. That is these trees that provide that they breed with these trees with forests the world would not have the fresh air that they do now you see yes they want to preserve these but theyre not willing to comment losses in any way its not yes the people in the countryside are poor and cant defend their forests or if they get fifty kenyans 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 south already know that the. Government is failing because in these areas theres no development so the people are so stopped off development that theyre willing to give a little bit away so a few of us what a will whats happening we have to link up with people in the villages like god chiefs and then work with them and say look the. This time to take action to protect olenda molecules of this processing plenty out we have allowed it to stay in operation because they have downstream process say ok then what should be no problems but i found out that they have mentioned have been shipping out from time to time with the goal and mission. Cut. To pick. Up. Some of. Those the film on the shelf. This jury. Good bye goes through a pretty. Good sign that. The something. Close. To. The horror movie is you know youre only six of them. So for now back to the fold and youve done some good if you. Remove those sort of. Little bit. Of. A skill what goes to come bring order plus whats up. Whats your name. To turn child ok from. Also. I spoke ok come have ok we see you know ok. You have your passport i just like you. And yours. Also. And i your training in your local stuff i want to thank me. But the problem is that many of these people are with limited twyman. The work permit says that theyre to provide training opportunities for citizen employees they never train anyone. They come and work and make money and dont train anybody and they go after my right also for any of you going to teach anything. And most of them are nothing so no one turning up. We want to go and walk its probably unfair to ask you any questions because im curious i want to know why this is moving for. The song just. Great thank you. So well. Rid of me but i think you can follow us here you dont because you. Know. Most of our life. The companies that are coming in there are a pest they have no consideration for people or the environmental the future of what they see a tree or daisy is going to convert that tree if you drop it to get bigger. It is what im going to drill for close to all timber operations in order province this is the last one and that its days are numbered one two three go. And implement countries poor and we want to to development. We have few roads no a nine year old me wonder gary joe for we inaugurated a new bridge connecting a remote forest area with the road network egoboo said it. Didnt finish up anyone on that if i myself am a bridge between the world of the white man and our work times on saturday humankinds biggest worry is Climate Change up so you may the whole world is looking for solutions you dont have in some assumptions oh you mean we cannot do much ourselves but we have to take care of our forests you should always remember that not involving bush and. The. Certainly supported you do we would be for going to shut it all in return if youd like to put. On a little money get on. The news the real friends on our trip to france. I want to see the forests inaki tan. Its not a version for the park we have it on booze or use one of the biggest planted forests in europe i realize that the white brown also has a lot of woodley and i was astonished at how its harvested. The serving more joy was email your piece 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 one city you want to miss where similar one comes to your father or grandfather planted these trees for you and i inherited the forest from my ancestors. Running them but its exactly the same to you no one has already purchased it here. You plant trees like corn on my you brought up by me and be blessed that i. Mean no theres nothing bad about felling trees theyve always grown and theyre useful to people. Well what if the white people have so many forests of their own why are they calling our trees will mean if theres anyone watching this film who can explain that to me please do and. Dont plan on it this is the section forest and miscellaneous. Here its all about planting and here its about timber energy and mechanized operations. Would you. Know ill show you the different kinds of plants that grow in ikea ten 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 just that they need to sell to keep the hives all ok so these are the trees you plant sophie your style but any way they dont tell us you know this is what maritime pines look like when theyre small im going to order several thousand of them to reforest cleared areas. Youve got to but its a lot of trees. Its a. Real good look like like the. Ah. No more live. Thats to do one would often were renewing the forest here through reforesting were obliged by law to plant new trees within five years of clearing. There was nobody in my home country foreign firms are destroying the forests with all planting anything afterwards they felt very old trees without thinking about the future at all. So they could have to do it is indeed very important to replace felled trees so. Theyre growing quickly. And im going slow. Running in my country we also apply trees very many i mean but only one type. It looks like a tough to of gratis i know some graphs. And remember talking about the oil palm. Beach. In many coastal areas of the new guinea the rainforest was replaced with huge plantations where the locals were. Not going to mine also. After the harvest of the fruits or pressed to make the most widely used oil in the world. Palm oil and chocolate cookies and many other products at a plantation near the pond that i met a man from my area and. I. Soon brought him here you were both on the mountain nice to see you used up and you seem to be doing well. Have been youre making good money brought all. Is your money in a divine work. Yes im happy on my own hundred day and i have a house with electricity and running water. One hundred. One hundred b. Plus. Like here before at all jungle. Yes. There was a big forest tales. That i had patients came and destroyed the forest throughout the region. If we do not protect our remaining forests we will never again see the kind of your wearing on your head and. Yes we must preserve our virgin Forests Company all the Companies Must help us develop sustainably so that the poor benefit. Will decide that its not easy to find a balance in the me and by you me. Oddball for a minute for us some of the destroyed forests been 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 and more all thats left of the mill whispered. Oh man by my friends you you mean hi you me you are the one we all love the forrestal one one man but were also contributing to its destruction people up on ground we pop a 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 design do able to me one bradley im just a tribal chieftains from popular new guinea but ive come here to warn the worthless or the when all the trees have disappeared beneath the people will die too. Only we can prevent the end of the world when all there will be is silence and that silent darkness. There is. And to the world of Classical Music when sarah was this time she takes us to her favorite pastime. In japan. Denmark. Switzerland. And norway. All these festivals is always really special if theres one near you go youll love it. Fifteen minutes long. 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