I went on a journey and I went all over
the Amazon try and find out the truth
about the Amazon this idea of these
nasty people destroying the Amazon
they’re not they’re just people trying
to make a living and what I saw is this
endless poverty trend three years ago
now I’ve bought an illegal coca
plantation by mistake these are raw coca
leaves they have the highest alkaloid
content of any coca leaves in the world
which means they make really good
cocaine and they’re mine so I became a
coca Lord by mistake now I didn’t mean
to buy a cocaine plantation obviously
but I bought it over the phone a friend
of mine phone Mia and he said there’s
this piece of land at the end of a
logging road and then at the head of the
national park needs someone to buy it
the illegal loggers are going up the up
dis track they’re going through the land
and into the national park cut the
hardwood trees and if someone can buy
that piece of land we stand a chance of
protecting that part of money National
Park but what I actually got you know
when I got there and saw it several
months later was you know hundred acres
of severely degraded secondary
rainforest and two hectares of illegal
coke I also got an illegal logging camp
with an illegal loggers living in it
that’s Ilyas there on the right I bought
the land of Tito his dad here on the
left and Ilyas was one of the most
infamous infamous notorious illegal
loggers in the area the national parks
hated in he was a thief he was a liar he
was this he was that and as a result I
was absolutely terrified of him he was
so muscley I’ve never seen a human being
I can’t kind of get it from that picture
but yeah anyway I was terrified him and
I would camp in might camped on the land
when I first went there and I lie down I
could hear the chainsaws at night and
I’d come out in the morning they’d be a
massive pile of hard
like in the driveway to my land and then
two hours later had gone this kind of
went on it went on and then one day so
we were filming this as part of a TV
documentary and Gavin the director said
to me you know you’ve really got to go
meet this guy and I said I’m scared I
don’t want it and I talked the National
Parks one I said you’ve bought the most
dangerous piece of land off the most
dangerous family in the most dangerous
part of southern Peru and you know that
scared the hell out of me and I’m
camping on it and a few years earlier in
exactly the same spot where I was
camping a group of geologists had been
basically held up with guns and robbed
it was a scary prospect so I didn’t want
to meet you Ilyas anyway Gavin said
you’re gonna have to and he forced me to
do it so we marched through the forest
and I tracked Ilya he’s really hard to
find I tracked him through I could find
wet footprints and we did this for an
hour and eventually I heard a chainsaw
and basically I doorstep this man in the
middle of cutting a tree down with a
whole film crew and it was a really
weird moment because he was like hell is
good you know really remote far the
animals and this bloke turns out with a
boom pole and a camp anyway he’s not
gonna attack us is it Hayley sat ban and
we hung out and you know no I basically
sake you’ve got you got to leave you
know yeah it’s not working you can’t
stay on this land your honour you’re the
bad illegal or I don’t want you
understand you’re going to have to leave
and he he spun me this line about how he
had a disabled daughter it’s all he
could do you know to survive and and
keep her you know and keep this family
alive and you know I didn’t believe him
going to show you this now
man
hey what’s that yeah
that honor goes to super bags yeah
quanto anos Cinco ah which I just
thought I’d come and say hi meet your
family yosaku dia cuando el principio
cuando NOS edo era una nian oh man yeah
los tres meses cuando está haciendo
Pilar arroz porque San Strahan’s Tammy
arose intone odesi or medicine el SAPO
yo say a gacho amico gen motor de Maya
entonces Oh acid ARB wells well sell
moto yeah he’s dope are principio pence
a que que estaba Muerta yan toes yo me
voy Quanah cuenta a menos de que bockris
en de los tres años y trece he’s medina
por que no era Norma no sabe Aveo imijo
que noble Colegio no pal Hardeen yellow
tros Neos Simba entonces no sabes Espeon
so hasta inclusive oh god Odin cantar me
la vida y me por que se siente real tal
si you know Leo Saba miss Familia es
otro personas no latigo pero yo lo
siento hace en doh
don’t want to keep them off the loan oh
you know this this made my decision
infinitely more complicate Rozell agree
in my mind I was going to chuckle es off
the land until I went down to his house
now what some bastard would I be if I
did there’s no way behind every horrific
story lie a bunch of earthly decent
people just trying to survive and I was
completely unarmed as a human being to
do it I had no idea what I was going to
do so I went on a journey to find out
the truth about the Amazon trying to
find out how can we tackle these
problems and we can tackle them by
understanding them so I went on a kind
of journey of understanding this is
Erasmus he’s one of 35,000 gold miners
in southern Peru the gold mining is a
huge environmental problem you know this
is like a modern-day Gold Rush but these
guys are chasing dust they’re not
chasing nuggets and they use a whole
load of chemicals within that process
mercury particularly if I give you a
sense of scale that there’s a truck and
dock there you see that you start
realizing how big is this whole towns of
cropped up to supply this trade in terms
of thousands of people’s prostitution as
human trafficking it’s just crime in who
knows it’s a horrible modern-day Gold
Rush so I went to work with Erasmus on
his gold mine this is one day they got
this is six and a half grams of 24 karat
gold that’s worth about 190 bucks so it
takes around 20 tons of toxic waste to
make it a gold wedding ring
here’s a little clip of of me down there
every 16 hours the mats are rinsed and
shaken out before the gold-bearing
sludge is scraped into a barrel hey bro
so Julio si Loki Koki Aloha
hey sis pitas kappa ESO loco loco kilo
Kunta – Oh si los expertos reason can a
kudu possessing elemento toxic Oh VI a
semi sedan you bring cambio yamir
trabajo 20 dos anos he knows of a new
man
so he’s next thing I’m not hurry with
with the sludge it was a movement to no
other you know you could put julio de
Bock okay Lord una hora
si si si prophecy como estamos haciendo
legalmente auntie dollie esta previ doe
I you know met Oh No Oh techno dajia se
puede trabajar mean area Sigma s qu do
no todos nosotros no tenemos a say
capital hey quai des Eaux estamos
haciendo sig moment Anna meant a no ma
mercury poisoning can result in brain
damage kidney damage lung failure and
possibly miscarriage illegal miners
dumped nearly 30 tons of this heavy
metal into Peruvian rivers every year
and a recent study found that many
people in local communities had mercury
levels in their bodies five times the
safe limit
a whole lot of gold I’m seeing so that’s
an image I took of that guy while he was
doing he stood that mercury with his
feet for now when you do that you
realize these guys aren’t rich okay the
bad guys aren’t rich the gold miners
aren’t no one’s getting rich off this at
all it’s actually the reverse this guy
wanted to go to university he had gone
to become a gold miner to save up for
university he was never going to go to
university was poisoning himself to
death
he hadn’t been paid for two weeks the
other two workers the work that hadn’t
been paid for three months you know in
what I saw was this endless poverty
cycle is just trap he was stuck in this
poverty trap that they couldn’t get out
the longer they work to not got paid the
more they were committed to work so it
was all really just miserable and tragic
this was this is where we got our water
from and washed every day said mercury
tailing this sort of gold mining tailing
pond full of mercury so it makes you
realize that these guys aren’t doing
that for fun you know this idea of these
nasty people destroying the Amazon
they’re not they’re just people trying
to make a living
you
the Amazon try and find out the truth
about the Amazon this idea of these
nasty people destroying the Amazon
they’re not they’re just people trying
to make a living and what I saw is this
endless poverty trend three years ago
now I’ve bought an illegal coca
plantation by mistake these are raw coca
leaves they have the highest alkaloid
content of any coca leaves in the world
which means they make really good
cocaine and they’re mine so I became a
coca Lord by mistake now I didn’t mean
to buy a cocaine plantation obviously
but I bought it over the phone a friend
of mine phone Mia and he said there’s
this piece of land at the end of a
logging road and then at the head of the
national park needs someone to buy it
the illegal loggers are going up the up
dis track they’re going through the land
and into the national park cut the
hardwood trees and if someone can buy
that piece of land we stand a chance of
protecting that part of money National
Park but what I actually got you know
when I got there and saw it several
months later was you know hundred acres
of severely degraded secondary
rainforest and two hectares of illegal
coke I also got an illegal logging camp
with an illegal loggers living in it
that’s Ilyas there on the right I bought
the land of Tito his dad here on the
left and Ilyas was one of the most
infamous infamous notorious illegal
loggers in the area the national parks
hated in he was a thief he was a liar he
was this he was that and as a result I
was absolutely terrified of him he was
so muscley I’ve never seen a human being
I can’t kind of get it from that picture
but yeah anyway I was terrified him and
I would camp in might camped on the land
when I first went there and I lie down I
could hear the chainsaws at night and
I’d come out in the morning they’d be a
massive pile of hard
like in the driveway to my land and then
two hours later had gone this kind of
went on it went on and then one day so
we were filming this as part of a TV
documentary and Gavin the director said
to me you know you’ve really got to go
meet this guy and I said I’m scared I
don’t want it and I talked the National
Parks one I said you’ve bought the most
dangerous piece of land off the most
dangerous family in the most dangerous
part of southern Peru and you know that
scared the hell out of me and I’m
camping on it and a few years earlier in
exactly the same spot where I was
camping a group of geologists had been
basically held up with guns and robbed
it was a scary prospect so I didn’t want
to meet you Ilyas anyway Gavin said
you’re gonna have to and he forced me to
do it so we marched through the forest
and I tracked Ilya he’s really hard to
find I tracked him through I could find
wet footprints and we did this for an
hour and eventually I heard a chainsaw
and basically I doorstep this man in the
middle of cutting a tree down with a
whole film crew and it was a really
weird moment because he was like hell is
good you know really remote far the
animals and this bloke turns out with a
boom pole and a camp anyway he’s not
gonna attack us is it Hayley sat ban and
we hung out and you know no I basically
sake you’ve got you got to leave you
know yeah it’s not working you can’t
stay on this land your honour you’re the
bad illegal or I don’t want you
understand you’re going to have to leave
and he he spun me this line about how he
had a disabled daughter it’s all he
could do you know to survive and and
keep her you know and keep this family
alive and you know I didn’t believe him
going to show you this now
man
hey what’s that yeah
that honor goes to super bags yeah
quanto anos Cinco ah which I just
thought I’d come and say hi meet your
family yosaku dia cuando el principio
cuando NOS edo era una nian oh man yeah
los tres meses cuando está haciendo
Pilar arroz porque San Strahan’s Tammy
arose intone odesi or medicine el SAPO
yo say a gacho amico gen motor de Maya
entonces Oh acid ARB wells well sell
moto yeah he’s dope are principio pence
a que que estaba Muerta yan toes yo me
voy Quanah cuenta a menos de que bockris
en de los tres años y trece he’s medina
por que no era Norma no sabe Aveo imijo
que noble Colegio no pal Hardeen yellow
tros Neos Simba entonces no sabes Espeon
so hasta inclusive oh god Odin cantar me
la vida y me por que se siente real tal
si you know Leo Saba miss Familia es
otro personas no latigo pero yo lo
siento hace en doh
don’t want to keep them off the loan oh
you know this this made my decision
infinitely more complicate Rozell agree
in my mind I was going to chuckle es off
the land until I went down to his house
now what some bastard would I be if I
did there’s no way behind every horrific
story lie a bunch of earthly decent
people just trying to survive and I was
completely unarmed as a human being to
do it I had no idea what I was going to
do so I went on a journey to find out
the truth about the Amazon trying to
find out how can we tackle these
problems and we can tackle them by
understanding them so I went on a kind
of journey of understanding this is
Erasmus he’s one of 35,000 gold miners
in southern Peru the gold mining is a
huge environmental problem you know this
is like a modern-day Gold Rush but these
guys are chasing dust they’re not
chasing nuggets and they use a whole
load of chemicals within that process
mercury particularly if I give you a
sense of scale that there’s a truck and
dock there you see that you start
realizing how big is this whole towns of
cropped up to supply this trade in terms
of thousands of people’s prostitution as
human trafficking it’s just crime in who
knows it’s a horrible modern-day Gold
Rush so I went to work with Erasmus on
his gold mine this is one day they got
this is six and a half grams of 24 karat
gold that’s worth about 190 bucks so it
takes around 20 tons of toxic waste to
make it a gold wedding ring
here’s a little clip of of me down there
every 16 hours the mats are rinsed and
shaken out before the gold-bearing
sludge is scraped into a barrel hey bro
so Julio si Loki Koki Aloha
hey sis pitas kappa ESO loco loco kilo
Kunta – Oh si los expertos reason can a
kudu possessing elemento toxic Oh VI a
semi sedan you bring cambio yamir
trabajo 20 dos anos he knows of a new
man
so he’s next thing I’m not hurry with
with the sludge it was a movement to no
other you know you could put julio de
Bock okay Lord una hora
si si si prophecy como estamos haciendo
legalmente auntie dollie esta previ doe
I you know met Oh No Oh techno dajia se
puede trabajar mean area Sigma s qu do
no todos nosotros no tenemos a say
capital hey quai des Eaux estamos
haciendo sig moment Anna meant a no ma
mercury poisoning can result in brain
damage kidney damage lung failure and
possibly miscarriage illegal miners
dumped nearly 30 tons of this heavy
metal into Peruvian rivers every year
and a recent study found that many
people in local communities had mercury
levels in their bodies five times the
safe limit
a whole lot of gold I’m seeing so that’s
an image I took of that guy while he was
doing he stood that mercury with his
feet for now when you do that you
realize these guys aren’t rich okay the
bad guys aren’t rich the gold miners
aren’t no one’s getting rich off this at
all it’s actually the reverse this guy
wanted to go to university he had gone
to become a gold miner to save up for
university he was never going to go to
university was poisoning himself to
death
he hadn’t been paid for two weeks the
other two workers the work that hadn’t
been paid for three months you know in
what I saw was this endless poverty
cycle is just trap he was stuck in this
poverty trap that they couldn’t get out
the longer they work to not got paid the
more they were committed to work so it
was all really just miserable and tragic
this was this is where we got our water
from and washed every day said mercury
tailing this sort of gold mining tailing
pond full of mercury so it makes you
realize that these guys aren’t doing
that for fun you know this idea of these
nasty people destroying the Amazon
they’re not they’re just people trying
to make a living
you
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