California is expected to lose 25 percent of its species in the next 40 years.

Around the world, slaves are used to destroy the environment, cutting down trees in the Amazon destroying forest areas in West Africa mining and spreading mercury around in places like Ghana and the Congo destroying the coastal ecosystems in South Asia.

No, I was thinking about the newscast from California.

Forest

This is in fact, this beautiful photograph, is in fact over the Amazon.

Are you a fuckin' treehugger?

Fire towers?

The trees in the Amazon are my sisters.

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There's a forest fire up in the mountains just east of here.

More of that in a minute.

Boskamp NALIBOCKA DECEMBER 1941

The air is wonderful in the woods.

We wondered, Do they actually glide in nature?

A picture that you're familiar with the Amazon rainforests.

And so does every wild habitat on the planet,

They're searching for bush meat forest animals they can kill to feed their families.

But over two million people cut trees.

I got lost in the forest.

I lost my way in the woods.

I lost my way in the forest.

I got lost in the woods.

So what happened here? We created a huge economic failure in this forest.

It's a marvelous adaptation.

Today's biggest threat to the Ashaninka people and to Benki comes from illegal logging the people who come into the beautiful forest and cut down ancient mahogany trees, float them down the river to world markets.

Now the fertility has returned to the land.

Let's build the paradise again.

And the grim picture in Africa I love Africa, and what do we see in Africa?

Parts and technical crew for the forest moon.

NALIBOCKA CAMP APRIL 1942

Chairs recycled and recyclable.

Well, since the contrailing got heavy,

He's built schools to teach children to care for the forest.

The land is clothed with woods.

Canada abounds in timber.

This is all Forest Service land.

Eighteen percent of our contribution to greenhouse gas emissions worldwide is the result of deforestation.

So she went out and looked at what data she could find.

And actually we've done this with the TEEB project.

There's a bunch of workers in the trucks and, uh, there's a forest ranger in In the, uh, highway patrol car.

It was quite simple.

Forest conservation is an important issue all over the world.

Water shortage is caused by the loss of forests.

This is what I think is the most poetic of the oldest living things.

Or, the last thing we want to do is cut down the wrong trees.