The Brazilian Locals Fighting Back Against Illegal Logging in the Amazon

Amazon s Jungle Warfare (2008): Inside the struggle to preserve the Amazon Rainforest from the corrupt logging industry. For similar stories, see: Logging Companies Treachery in Papua New Guinea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf_Day6tghM A Plea From the Heart of an Ancient Amazonian People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvUBZU_Obgo Cameroon s Rainforest Under Threat From Illegal Logging https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i4ZJ4umPNo Subscribe to journeyman for daily uploads: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=journeymanpictures For downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/film/4089 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeymanpictures Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JourneymanVOD https://twitter.com/JourneymanNews Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/journeymanpictures After years of decreased logging, the land-grabbers and profiteers are returning to the Amazon basin. Timber companies claim areas of forest, burn villages, fell trees and sell on the land as pasture. Often they carry fake papers and claim to represent the government. More disturbingly, locals say that the loggers are being shielded by the authorities. When Rosa Viegas’s community blockaded the river to halt logging they hoped the police would come. But, says Rosa, when the police arrived they ‘put guns to our heads with their fingers on the trigger and told us to keep quiet’. Yet many villagers are fighting back. When an illegal shipment of timber was burned, loggers began to fear a local uprising. ‘They were really angry’, laughs Domingas De Olivieras, ‘they would pass by and call ‘Barge Burners’ - but they were too afraid to stop’. SBS Australia – Ref. 4089 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world s most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world s top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you ll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.