The tribe members sarcastically said that the loggers had a lot of money to assassinate the Amazon rainforest for 20 years. This chief is amazing.

Facing the sneer of the tribe

Death threat from loggers

This primitive tribe chief has held on for more than 20 years

Defend the forests of your hometown

This is a real corner of the Amazon rainforest

The light and shadow rain forest reflects everyone's face

Man and nature are one

When you cut down a tree

Then a person fell down

They were crying silently and shouting silently

Such a wonderful and creative collision comes from a chief of an Amazon native tribe Almir and French photographers Philippe Echaroux。

Philippe He is an environmental enthusiast who uses photography to expose severe ecological problems.He is a tribe chief Almir The invitation to the depths of the Amazon rainforest Surui Tribes can create such infectious photos by living with indigenous people day and night with the degraded rainforest.

In people's inherent impression, the indigenous tribes seem to be a group of people isolated from modern civilization, and this Amazon chief who plays with modern art is the most important part of the Amazonian chief. Almir Narayamoga It seems very unusual... Environmentalist, political activist, one of the 100 most influential people in Brazil, there are many stories behind him...

Amazon Rainforest

Lush forests and diverse species

It seems that since its birth, it has been a holy place that God prefers

However, after 1969

With the invasion of modern civilization

90%Indigenous people died of tuberculosis and smallpox

The loggers poured into the rainforest with a greedy axe

Diseases rage, broken wood ruins

It seems to have become a forgotten abandoned child by God

One side is a modern invader

On the one hand, displaced indigenous people

Almir Growing up in this environment

Almir At the age of ten

The first logging truck

Drive into this village deep in the Amazon rainforest

The logger cut off a hundred-year-old peach heart redwood

This old tree that witnessed the tribe's century-old history

Just collapsed like this

As the primitive indigenous people become more and more in contact with modern society

The tribes no longer care about war and killing

But in the blink of an eye, politics and trade

Greedy loggers take advantage of the situation

Exchange money for wood

More and more loggers are ruthlessly passing through this land

For money logging

Local natives are happy to see it

only Almir See the uncontrollable side behind short-term returns

“Cinta Larga The tribe took money from absenteeism

Let them go to mining

As a result, all the fish in the river died.”

The logger cut down a tree

Give the tribe a sum of money

This is by no means a simple fair deal

1992In 2019, I just graduated from university Almir Referred as the leader of the ethnic group, he actively lobbies the World Bank and public welfare organizations to seek economic assistance for the tribe, hoping that residents will not log in large quantities for small profits.

Too much dependence on financial aid, Surui The life of the tribe is at stake... In 2004, Surui The leaders of the four tribes gathered together to discuss how the tribe members could eat and wear warmth if there was no assistance.

▲The old man in the tribe is Almir The powerful resistance to plan to save the rainforest

One person proposes to increase the amount of logging

A person who wants to dig gold or diamonds

One said it would be better to make bottled water

“I want to plant trees”

only Almir Say that

Everyone scoffed at his thoughts, including his tribe, laughing at the young leader.

Facing ridicule, Almir Still chose to stick to the original intention.He contacted the Amazon Protection Team ( ACT） for Surui Tribes create a "cultural map" so that people in tribes can re-understand their homes and feel the powerful power brought by cultural cohesion.

And this kind of power cannot be bought by loggers with money, which is the real wealth. At the same time, he seeks financial support from the Annenberg Foundation to solve his money concerns.Rejuvenation of culture, short-term work, using this as a reason, Almir Win the support of the other three tribe leaders, which is also Surui The tribe stopped logging for the first time since it came into contact with modern civilization.

This historic progress made Almir Very happy, it was not good news for the loggers. They hated the young man and even offered a reward of 100,000 US dollars to assassinate him.

2007Year, Almir First time to go to Google Earth.Like every normal person, the first thing he does is to position himself in his hometown.But he was surprised to find that on Google Earth, the territory was deserted and surrounded by desolate land and farms.

At that moment, two thoughts swept through his mind: one is that Google Earth missed important information, and the other is that maybe we can do something for the rainforest with this!

He drove for more than 2 hours on the rugged mountain road, took a 10-hour bus, took 3 different flights for 14 hours, and finally arrived in San Francisco.He wears his signature feather headdress and passionately goes to Google Earth leader in Portuguese in a mouthful of Portuguese Rebecca Moore Telling:

Surui How tribes defend their territory with bows and arrows

In order to integrate into modern civilization, people here

How to learn how to use paper and pen

How to learn how to use a computer

▲Students learn how to use computers in school

When you are positioned in Rio, in Sao Paulo

You will see streets, hotels

But when you come Surui tribe

But only a blank space is seen

I don't know that someone has lived here for generations

I won't know that someone is working hard to survive

▲23Years old Mopidmore Surui Defend your home

He hopes to see his hometown on Google Earth and use high-definition satellite images to monitor loggers and miners in time.

The trip to San Francisco not only received support from Google Earth, Almir I also got to know about environmental protection NGO Forest Trends Market planning person Beto Borges。

Borges Tell him, Forest Trends It is to control carbon emissions by planting trees to save forests, that is, to reduce emissions caused by deforestation and forest degradation ( REDD）”。 This is exactly the same as Almir The thought of "planting trees to make money for a living" coincides with it.

The two hit it off and invited the Association for Race and Environmental Protection, the Amazon Conservation Team, and the Amazon Conservation and Sustainable Development to form a team and establish a special foundation.

▲Lapetanha The village has 102 residents, a school and a church, and the electricity was only launched in 2007.

They explained to the indigenous people in the tribe how to control emissions by planting trees to save forests and how to obtain economic income based on emissions.

They examined the damage to the forest and calculated that Surui On the nearly 250,000 hectares of tribes, at least 13,000 hectares of forest will be turned into arable land in the next 30 years, producing 7.8 million tons of carbon dioxide.If people start to save forests now, more than 90% of forest degradation can be avoided, with an estimated maximum of 5 million tons of carbon dioxide.

▲Surui Patrol team patrols on dirt roads

Illegal loggers are always everywhere, and recently Surui The tribe's patrol also found many traces of loggers. Almir Asked for assistance from the government, but suffered from the inability to provide evidence, the government refused to carry out the action.

There was no way, they had to start tracking and expelling the loggers themselves. Almir Posting photos on the Internet hopes to attract the attention of international media and put pressure on the government.

“I know someone in the tribe has taken bribes from loggers” Almir Say, “Luckily, this is only a few people.More people are willing to participate in the fight against loggers and guard our forests!”

2024-02-05 02:13