There were a lot of them.

A meat eater in this room will consume, on average, 8,000 animals in their lifetime.

Mountains were deforested, stripped and leveled.

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

Now I actually think that these ideas will change the economics of deforestation.

Much of it comes not only because of cutting, but also burning.

Because I don't just stand around,

We're going to have to say, no more logging in the Amazon for 20 years.

You'll see scenes like this all over the island.

There are regulations that it's prohibited to do logging, mining and poaching, specifically.

We had a vegetation cover of 85 , made up of native forest, which was made up mostly of nut and cupuaçu trees.

And the Chinese government responded sensibly and placed a ban on felling.

Everywhere there has been constant extraction of mineral, killing animals, the logging timbers and so on.

You can take virtually any parameter that matters for human well being nitrous oxide, methane, deforestation, overfishing

We build cities, suburbs, and farms on top of frog habitat and chop forests and drain the wetlands that serve as home for numerous amphibian populations.

Somewhere in the Amazon forest is the marginal tree.

We're going to have to have no take zones.

(Laughter)

Give me the axe.

Trees suck up huge amounts of CO2, which balances the cycle.

like so many other creatures around the world, are losing their habitats.

The flower bed was not quite bare.

And my ax.

They come with axes.

Lower your ax.

They either abide by the law, or they close down.

These are the 15 commodities that fundamentally pose the biggest threats to these places because of deforestation, soil loss, water use, pesticide use, over fishing, etc.

I was raised in the forests of British Columbia to believe those forests existed to be cut.

Simon Taylor and Patrick Alley, we set up an organization called Global Witness.

At the rate at which we're going now, the Philippines will lose all its accessible loggable forest within five years.

I recorded a number of examples of the same dawn choruses, and now this is what we've got.

My childhood summers were in the Puget Sound of Washington, among the first growth and big growth.

I've got a hatchet.

And he's brought the internet and satellite technology to the forest both so that people themselves could monitor the deforestation, but also that he could speak from the forest to the rest of the world.

Food for thought, these are things we have to sleep on

And the people who made money from Brazil nuts were not the people who made money from cutting the forests.

And swat us away like flies, the way we swat away flies when we go into the rainforest and start logging it.

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.

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.

If it burns in a forest fire, it's going to give that carbon back to the atmosphere as well.

Years ago, hundreds of men would go up for the winter to the camps in Northern Ontario and in Quebec, and they were all different cultures, and the Irish, the French, Scottish,

If you start to say no to timber of suspicious origin, to timber with an unknown origin, the market will begin to weaken and they will no longer see the results they hoped for.

Together, he's led the reforestation of over 25 percent of the land that had been destroyed by the loggers.

It's not just that it was resurrected. It's continued all along.

And I don't know why, but I remember the story.