For many people, the struggle to preserve the Amazon rain forest is about abstract notions related to global warming and climate change. But for the Kaapor people of the Brazilian Amazon, preserving the rainforest is much more basic. It’s about food.
In this short video, Waldemir Kaapor, the chief of the small Kaapor tribe takes us to a camp that has just been re-captured from loggers who have devastated the local forest. The camp was illegally built on Kaapor land. The tribe intends to build a new village in this camp and reforest the land around it.
To show us why the Kaapor must fight for the forest, Waldemir takes the camera into the forest to reveal the bountiful supply of food and drink that is within arm’s reach just about anywhere the Indians care to go. A cluttered jungle quickly turns into a supermarket of ready to eat food.
This is a unique look inside a federally designated “conflict zone” deep in the Amazon. The filmmakers had to travel far into the jungle to capture this portrait of a very rare social & environmental success story.
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