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Narrator: The monsoon.
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(thunder)
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The greatest weather system on earth.
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The giver of life, and the destroyer.
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Shaping magical lands
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From the himalaya to australia.
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It all happens in one of the most crowded
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Parts of the planet.
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This is the story of people and nature,
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Living side by side.
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A story of the struggles faced and of the powerful beliefs
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That link the ancient to the present day.
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(thunder)
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A hindu temple. Mangalore, southern india.
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It's the height of the monsoon and today is nag panchami,
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The day when hindus worship snakes;
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Venomous snakes.
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During the indian monsoon,
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Rains flush them into the paths of people.
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Until recently, live cobras
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Were widely worshiped in temples.
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It's just one example of the close and complex relationship
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Between nature and the people of the monsoon.
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(hiss)
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Palawan island, the philippines.
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Here lives a community whose beliefs and lifestyle
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Shed light on how humans and nature have coexisted
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For thousands of years.
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Rolito and his sister maria.
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To them the natural world is full of spirits.
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And nature provides them with almost everything they need.
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(distant thunder)
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Monsoon storms are approaching,and tata is getting prepared.
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To him, even the clouds have spirits and can be vengeful.
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(rumbling)
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Tata must protect his family from harm.
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(thunder)
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Their wooden shack isn't designed
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To survive the angry storms.
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(speaking native language)
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(laughter)
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For the months of the monsoon
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The family will live as their ancestors did,
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As hunter-gatherers in a cave,
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Relying on what the forest provides.
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(thunder)
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When hunting, tata wears a loincloth
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Because wet clothes can rub and can snare on thorns.
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Joined by his father-in-law and brother,
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The group uses rattan vine to construct a hunting weapon.
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The rattan has hooked spines that pierce flesh
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And are hard to dislodge.
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Narrator: Palawan hunters believe their very survival
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Is in the hands of the spirits all around them--
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In rocks, water and trees.
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The spirits are their guardians
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But can also inflict great hardship.
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If the hunt is to be successful,
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They must have the blessing of the spirits.
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Narrator: First, the hunters need to flush out their prey.
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Bats!
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As they try to escape, tata is waiting.
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(screeching)
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(screeching)
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Bat kebab.
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Together with a few tubers
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It's a nourishing meal for the whole family.
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Narrator: And there's nothing better than a family meal
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For elders to hand down their wisdom.
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Narrator: Worship of natural spirits is considered to be
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The world's oldest belief system.
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It could be how everyone once lived
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Across the lands of the monsoon.
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But around 10,000 years ago everything changed.
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People discovered a new way to survive
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The extremes of the monsoon,
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All thanks to a wild marshland grass...
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Rice.
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The perfect monsoon crop.
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It's planted at the time of the flood.
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The grains can then be stored and eaten
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Throughout the dry season.
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Agriculture spread rapidly
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From southern china across the whole region.
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On its riches were built
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The region's first towns and cities.
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(thunder)
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But this progress came at a cost.
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(thunder)
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For the first time, wildlife was expelled from the land,
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Profoundly changing the relationship
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Between humans and nature.
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(elephant grumbling)
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In northeast india, the monsoonrains have been and gone.
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These elephants are hungry.
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Each one needs to eat more than200 pounds of food daily.
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Asian elephants are forest creatures,
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But the best food now lies beyond the forest's edge.
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The crop is guarded through the night.
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The fields are huge
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And the elephants could be anywhere.
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(grumbling)
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(grumbling)
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Narrator: In india, a group of farmers
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Are on an all-night vigil.
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(grumbling)
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(grumble)
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(man shouting)
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(men shouting)
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(men shouting)
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(whistling)
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(shouting,
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(shouting,
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The elephants have seen it all before.
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Not interested, and they haven't finished their dinner.
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(elephant roars)
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In just one night the herd could devour enough rice
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To feed 1,000 people.
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The villagers can't afford to stand by
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And watch their livelihood being destroyed.
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(shouting,
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(shouting,
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But these are unpredictable beasts.
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(shouting,
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(roar)
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Every year across india,
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Elephants kill up to 400 peoplein conflicts like this.
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(shouting,
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(roar)
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(grumbling)
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(shouting)
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(shouting,
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(shouting,
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The same scene will play out every night
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Until the harvest is in.
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(grumbling)
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It's a battle as old as agriculture itself.
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You might think that with the rise of agriculture,
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Respect for nature would have been lost entirely.
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But it didn't quite turn out that way.
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Along with rice and civilization,
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Came something new:
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Organized religion.
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By the river tak in thailand,
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Kewalin and her friends are preparing
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For an annual buddhist festival, loi krathong.
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But they're making offerings to a goddess of nature:
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The goddess of the river.
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Their prayers are to give thanks
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For all that the monsoon watershave provided.
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In the northern city of chiang mai,
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The festival is celebrated
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With tens of thousands of sky lanterns.
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Loi krathong has its origins inthe hindu festival of lights.
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Hinduism and buddhism, two religions that flourished
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In the monsoon lands.
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Both with great reverence for water
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And indeed for all of nature.
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More than 68 million people live in rajasthan, india.
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Food is scarce and water sources are shrinking.
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But even a chinkara must drink eventually.
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Stealing is a dangerous act.
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But this gazelle lives among the bishnoi people.
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Bishnoi is a religion founded around 300 years ago.
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To bishnoi followers, all living things are sacred.
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They willingly share their water
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And their harvest with wildlife.
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Even here, where the monsoon climate is harshest,
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The level of compassion and generosity
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To all living things is astounding.
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Narrator: Sometimes in nature the smallest of creatures
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Have the biggest stories to tell.
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In southern india, the monsoon rains brought relief,
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And streams are flowing again.
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On the rocks in the middle
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You can find tiny frogs no bigger than a paper clip.
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His calls have to compete with the noise of the stream.
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(chirping)
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So to claim a rock as his own, he uses semaphore.
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(chirping)
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He's a foot-flagging frog.
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It's a signal to his rivals to keep away.
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(chirping)
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But what's so extraordinary
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Is that while this little frog may never see a human,
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It almost certainly owes its survival
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To their religious beliefs.
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It's nag panchami, the holy daywhen hindus worship snakes.
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In the countryside,
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Savita helps her uncles make their offering.
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Because of this shrine the entire woodland is sacred.
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(bell ringing)
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The snakes and everything within it are protected.
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(bell ringing)
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(chirping)
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In india foot-flagging frogs live and breed
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In sacred groves.
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Which is why they owe their continued existence
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To hindu devotion.
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Traditionally, every indian village
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Had its own sacred grove.
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So religion seems to have been central
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To the relationship between people and nature
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For thousands of years.
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(rumbling)
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But a few hundred years ago
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That relationship was threatened like never before.
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(drumming)
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(gunfire)
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European traders were drawn tothe bounty of the monsoon lands
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From india to australia,
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Culminating in the biggestempire the world has ever seen.
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(horses whinny)
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(crowd shouting)
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The newcomers didn't regard wildlife as sacred.
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(growling)
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(gunshot)
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(roar)
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(gunshot)
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Furthermore, forests were cleared,
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The timber harvested to build ships and railways,
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And the land planted with cash crops: Tea and cotton.
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Now, for the first time, the lands of the monsoon
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Were supplying produce worldwide
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On an industrial scale.
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Millions of people were sucked into
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This massive new enterprise.
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It was part of the transition
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That led to the world as we know it today.
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Now, only 3,000 indian tigers survive in isolated reserves.
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And only a fraction of india's native forest remains.
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(moo)
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Across the whole monsoon region,
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Global trade and travel have transformed the landscape
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And the relationship between humans and nature.
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Perhaps the changes that swept through the region
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Are symbolized by the fate of one animal
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That once ranged from burma to indonesia:
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Siamese crocodiles.
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Narrator: Siamese crocodiles were once hunted
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For their hides and brought to near extinction.
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A few survived in captivity.
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But these youngsters are special.
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They were born in the wild.
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Scientists recently discovered a new population breeding
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In a remote forest in cambodia.
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This conservation team brought some eggs
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To the safety of a sanctuary.
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In the wild, few crocs survive to adulthood,
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But these are now big enough to make a go of it.
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They're going back to the rivers of their native forest.
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(motorbike starts)
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It will be a tough journey ahead.
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Motorbikes are the only vehicles
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Capable of the bone-shaking journey.
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The team is bringing these youngsters
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Into the heart of the largest remaining forest
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In mainland southeast asia:
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The cardamom mountains of southern cambodia.
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Siamese crocodiles survived in these remote valleys
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Because locals regarded them as sacred.
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(man speaking native language)
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It's believed that if one dies,
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Misfortune will befall the village,
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So the crocodiles are closely guarded.
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(speaking native language)
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(speaking native language)
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♪ ♪
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(hiss)
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Crocodiles can live for more than 70 years,
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And a female can lay up to 50 eggs every year,
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So these crocs could start a new dynasty.
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But being sacred may not be enough for them to thrive.
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Crocodiles don't easily align
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With the needs of modern cambodia.
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Cambodians need electricity.
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Developments like these introduce a risk.
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They open up access for illegal logging.
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To some, it's the price of progress.
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But lose the trees,
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And the monsoon itself may take revenge.
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Northern india.
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The monsoon of 2013.
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Similar scenes have become increasingly common
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Across the monsoon region.
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Healthy forests bind the soil together and prevent floods.
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They also remove carbon dioxidefrom the atmosphere.
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Based on scientific calculations,
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The forests of southeast asia provide services
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Worth over one trillion dollars annually.
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And all for free.
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But the global demand for hardwood timber
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Just keeps growing.
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(creaking)
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♪ ♪
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And the forests of southeast asia
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Contain some of the best quality timber on earth.
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Teak, ebony, and rosewood are wanted for furniture
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And building materials,
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From doorframes to plywood.
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Wood from these forests ends upin homes all over the world.
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Is this the end of the special relationship
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Between nature and the people of the monsoon?
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Narrator: Here in deramakot forest reserve
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In malaysian borneo, all is not as it seems.
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Foresters are trying out a technique
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Called reduced impact logging.
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They are very selective.
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They don't cut trees that are too young or old.
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And fruiting trees, valuable for wildlife,
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Are marked for protection.
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They don't flatten the whole forest,
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But extract individual logs
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So the forest can quickly recover.
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Even access trails will be engulfed by new growth.
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Once harvested, each forest sector
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Will be left alone for 40 years.
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Ditches are cut across the bare trails
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To prevent soil being washed away by the monsoon rains.
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Deramakot turns a profit
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While also protecting the forest for the future.
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But can wildlife really thrive alongside the bulldozers?
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Scientists want to find out.
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It's at night that many forest animals should be active.
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Ranger: I see it,
no, no, no, there.
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Narrator: A porcupine.
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(elephant roars)
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There is life in these forests.
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But what about the top predators?
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Cats would be a good sign of a healthy forest
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Because they sit at the top of the food chain.
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If there isn't enough prey for them, cats wouldn't be here.
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Borneo's cats are notoriously elusive.
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But there's no denying the evidence of a camera trap.
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(clicking)
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Snapshots reveal a rich population,
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And among them, leopards.
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And even borneo's largest cat, the clouded leopard.
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In fact, scientists recorded
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21 of borneo's lowland carnivore species.
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A commercial forest can also beprime wildlife habitat.
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(cracking)
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It's all down to how it's harvested.
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(birds chirping)
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00:36:02,628 --> 00:36:05,896
But now there's a new conflict in the tropics
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That may be a greater challenge
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Than anything that's come before.
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♪ ♪
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Where they're still intact,
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The forests of tropical southeast asia
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Are lush jungles, among the oldest in the world,
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And home to one of our closest relatives.
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♪ ♪
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A sumatran orangutan with her two-week-old baby.
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It will take up to ten years for her to teach him
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All he needs to know to survive in this jungle.
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They will spend their lives up in the canopy.
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Their kind has evolved never to travel on the ground;
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That's tiger territory.
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♪ ♪
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(chainsaw)
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But around them, the forest is being cleared.
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The land is wanted for a new monsoon wonder crop.
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Oil palms.
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Global demand for vegetable oilhas more than doubled
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In the past 20 years.
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And oil palms produce at least five times more oil
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Per two and a half acres than other major oil crops.
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Palm oil is so versatile,it's found in a high proportion
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Of the products in any supermarket.
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Everything from cookies to laundry soap.
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It's perhaps the biggest agricultural revolution
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Since rice.
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(horn honks)
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This time supplying the whole world.
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(squeaking)
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Narrator: This mother orangutanand her five-year-old infant
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Live in a remaining fragment of malaysian jungle.
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The oil palms that surround them no longer have branches
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To support their weight, so they're stranded
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With no means of reaching fruiting trees
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Or other orangutans.
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If they stay here, they'll probably die,
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So a rescue mission is launched.
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The team carry guns loaded with tranquilizer.
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(pop)
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She's hit.
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(men speaking native language)
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The drug will take effect within 10 minutes.
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(speaking native language)
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♪ ♪
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(speaking native language)
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(speaking over radio)
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The aim is not to hurt her,
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But she will fall from the tree.
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(speaking native language)
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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Rico is a vet.
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He checks that the orangutan wasn't injured by the fall.
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(heart beating)
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♪ ♪
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She's in good health.
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♪ ♪
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While mom sleeps, her infant is also darted and caught.
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She may not feel it when she wakes up,
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00:41:39,598 --> 00:41:42,198
But she's a lucky orangutan.
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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The plan is to release her and her baby in a national park
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Where they will be safe.
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00:42:02,587 --> 00:42:04,554
It's a long drive through a landscape
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00:42:04,656 --> 00:42:09,225
Dominated by the palm industry.
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00:42:09,327 --> 00:42:12,061
But there just might be a glimmer of hope
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00:42:12,163 --> 00:42:15,164
For orangutans and their forests.
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00:42:18,770 --> 00:42:22,906
Global concern from consumers has prompted some producers
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00:42:23,008 --> 00:42:28,077
To commit to sustainable palm oil production,
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00:42:28,179 --> 00:42:31,948
Planting on land already claimed for agriculture
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Without clearing any more forests.
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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Maybe the people of the monsooncan find ways
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To meet the world's demand for palm oil and timber
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That minimize conflict with wildlife.
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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The special relationship between nature
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And the people of the monsoon lives on.
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♪ ♪
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Thanks to the monsoon's bounty,a richness of cultures
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And wildlife still flourishes here.
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There have been huge challenges,
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Especially in modern times.
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♪ ♪
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But the future of the region and all who live here
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No longer depend on the humanity
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And compassion of local people.
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Now, through global trade we are all connected
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To this wonderful, exotic world,
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And have a part to play in its future.
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♪ ♪
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