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There is a tiger in town,[br]let loose by the WWF...
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...the world's most powerful nature[br]conservation organisation.
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The last 3200 tigers are facing extinction.
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Such messages target[br]the human heart.
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The Worldwide Fund for Nature acts to[br]protect threatened species...
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...the environment and the last[br]remaining rainforests.
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The WWF panda is a[br]trusted logo, helping...
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...to bring in around[br]$600,000,000 a year.
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But we discovered that[br]behind the pretty pictures...
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...the WWF has another,[br]ugly face.
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It collaborates with companies[br]that destroy tropical rainforests...
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...and thus the habitat[br]of tigers, and of people.
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The WWF shares responsibility for[br]the destruction of our rainforests.
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We set out to unearth the[br]secrets of the WWF.
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A journey into the heart[br]of the green empire.
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Our expedition began in India,[br]where according to the WWF's...
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...own figures around[br]1400 tigers remain.
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We headed for[br]the Kanha reserve.
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At the Singinawa Jungle Lodge[br]we ran into a tour group...
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...on an exclusive package adventure offered[br]by the WWF travel agency Natural Habitat.
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It's called Wild India.
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Price tag: $10,000 a head.
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We were off on tiger safari.[br]The tour guide promised:
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With us, you'll get to see[br]one of the last living tigers.
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The men who keep tiger[br]boulevard tidy once reigned...
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...over the forest as free[br]indigenous Adivasi.
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Now they serve the[br]tourist industry.
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The breakfast assembly area.
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There used to be an Adivasi[br]village here but the WWF...
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...claimed the natives disturbed the[br]peace of the tiger habitat.
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There are meadows and[br]another tiger is here.
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We might take a chance.
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Tiger alarm! The race[br]was on for the best view.
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Only the first-comers stand a chance of[br]getting a ringside seat at the tiger circus.
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Hundred-fifty five jeeps[br]are admitted to the rally...
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...ploughing through the core zone of the[br]tiger reserve. Eight hours a day, every day.
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Just wait, wait..
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Halt! The ranger has[br]discovered a tiger track.
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The tour guide heard the tiger warning[br]call of a monkey.
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Suspense was mounting.
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False alarm. Only tiger feed.
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Mr. Rhana, the owner of the jungle lodge, is[br]a member of the Nepalese royal family.
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He showed us[br]his treasures.
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This hunt took place in Nepal[br]in 1913. Our family was ruling.
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This was a hunt arranged by[br]my great-grandfather...
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... who ruled at that time for George V...
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...the emperor of India.
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And so you see that[br]they shot tigers here.
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In this hunt there were 39.[br]In the other hunt 120.
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You can see how they hunted.[br]You see the ring of elephants.
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It's a complete ring,[br]a whole ring.
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The ring closes and[br]the tigers are inside.
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When the ring gets very[br]small the tigers come out...
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...and they shoot them,[br]which is not very fair.
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It was a quite unfair[br]sort of sport.
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The only way you can ensure that[br]you get a reasonable wildlife hab...
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...what you like to call[br]it.. population...
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...is by making sure[br]they're balanced.
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You can't just leave it to[br]nature because we're...
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...interfering with[br]nature all the time.
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And so you protect some things[br]by doing away with the predators.
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Otherwise it won't work.
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January 1961, the queen and her[br]prince consort on big game hunt.
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The beaters used goats[br]to attract the prey.
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The Windsor party didn't[br]leave many tigers behind.
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The kill-shot had been[br]reserved for Elisabeth II...
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...but at the last moment she[br]deferred to her husband.
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I've never been big[br]game hunting.
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No, never...
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Except on one occasion[br]in India which was...
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I've shot one tiger[br]in my life, that's all.
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A princely pratfall.
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The photo was published to a[br]storm of indignation in Britain...
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...just when Philip and his friends[br]were inaugurating the WWF...
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...on September 11, 1961.
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But that's old news. So[br]where did the tiger...
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...campaign millions[br]actually end up?
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The WWF points to investment in[br]photo traps, set up in the jungle...
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...so that tigers can be viewed live in[br]their habitat on the WWF website.
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A PR stunt that does[br]nothing for the tigers.
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Vasudha is a wildlife photographer[br]living alone at the edge of a tiger reserve.
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She believes that the WWF tiger[br]hype does more harm than good.
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I've been living in this area[br]for the last four years...
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...and I've spotted the cat[br]about seven times. That is all...
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A direct sighting, without[br]me disturbing...
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...or intruding or forceful[br]tracking the tiger.
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Talking about tourism, why[br]aren't we talking about...
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...the amount of pollution[br]that is being sent out.
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The amount of smoke that is going[br]out. The amount of sound...
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Animals are very sensitive.
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Do you think the tiger will[br]be comfortable to come out...
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...in front of a jeep?
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That is because you have access[br]to a jeep and you go inside the core area.
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In the name of tourism you are[br]actually spoiling pristine forest.
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Vasudha gave up her job at HSBC[br]Bank in London for her life here.
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Her jungle neighbours taught her[br]how to live alongside the wild animals.
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The children walk seven kilometres[br]through the jungle to school...
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...and they come back.
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So if that girl doesn't fear,[br]why should I fear?
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The father of ten-year old Preebi told[br]us she had come face to face...
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...with a tiger recently[br]while fetching water.
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Was she afraid? No, even[br]though he had a huge head.
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A friend from Bangalore[br]had come for a visit...
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...Ullash Kumar, an environmental[br]activist who opposes...
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...the WWF tiger campaign.
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It pulls in big money but the tigers[br]don't benefit from any of it.
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More and more parks are being declared[br]because you get more and more money.
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Actually, there have been[br]instances where, like in Mukurti...
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...where only one or[br]two tigers live.
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It was supposed to be a tiger[br]reserve. It's rainforest.
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It's a scam, a[br]political scam.
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People of that area will tell you that the last[br]tiger seen was thirty, forty years back...
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...before the tiger project[br]was declared.
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When it was started in 1974 we had[br]roughly five thousand tigers.
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If the project was successful, today we[br]should have had at least ten thousand.
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Or at least six thousand,[br]eight thousand.
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I know money is coming in[br]but it's not helping.
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The money has made the scientists and[br]the forest department officials very rich.
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They have new vehicles, they are[br]building more buildings...
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...in the name of[br]promoting eco tourism.
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I'm going to see[br]that the tribes are gone.
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They say the tribes are a[br]problem for the tiger habitat...
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...but they want to bring in[br]urban.. so-called eco tourists...
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...in the name of[br]the tiger project.
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Ullash Kumar discovered his[br]own love of nature...
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...in a WWF children's group.
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Later, doubts arose.[br]Why does the WWF...
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...want to drive the people[br]out of the forests?
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The Adivasi live in and from the[br]jungle habitat and also protect it.
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Now a million of them have[br]been targeted for resettlement.
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The WWF and the government say that[br]humans and tigers cannot coexist.
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We went to see a honey-gathering[br]tribe in Nagarhole National Park.
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They too are facing removal.
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To break the resistance of these[br]Adivasi, the forestry department...
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...has prohibited them from gathering[br]honey in the jungle.
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The WWF has accused them of killing tigers[br]and selling them to Chinese business men.
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We do not kill tigers.[br]We worship them.
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Deep in the jungle, over there in[br]the next village is a tiger temple.
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In addition we revere the[br]elephant. The whole forest is sacred...
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...to us and we protect it.
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The authorities and the WWF say,[br]take the $16,000 in compensation...
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...and clear out of here.
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Why? We've been living here[br]since time in memorial...
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...in harmony with nature.
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If we're chased away[br]the forest too will vanish.
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Our relationship with the forest is[br]like that of a child to its mother.
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The western environmental[br]groups can't understand that.
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We wanted to talk to the WWF[br]about their tiger policies.
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WWF International hq in Switzerland[br]first agreed to speak with us...
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...but then terminated discussions[br]with no explanation.
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Onwards to Indonesia,[br]5,000 kilometres to the south.
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The island of Borneo still boasts intact[br]mangrove forests along its coasts.
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The WWF raises money across the globe[br]to save the orang utan and it does in fact...
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...act to preserve existing national[br]parks that are home to orang utans.
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But this is the reality beyond the[br]borders of the few protected parks.
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Rainforest is disappearing to make[br]room for palm oil plantations...
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...for the food and biofuel industries.
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Who is responsible?
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Here, in Central Kalimantan it is the Singapore-[br]based multinational corporation Wilmar.
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The WWF has a consultation contract[br]with the corporation on sustainability.
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The WWF supports plant-based[br]energy production worldwide...
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...a monoculture model that[br]is rapidly eliminating forests...
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...and animals and displacing[br]traditional forest farmers.
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Nordin documents environmental[br]crime in Borneo...
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...for the nature[br]alliance Friends of the Earth.
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The WWF says palm oil can[br]be produced sustainably.
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Look around you. How[br]can this be sustainable?
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Nothing else can[br]grow here anymore.
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The partnership of the Wilmar[br]Corporation with the WWF...
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...improves the company's image[br]but not its methods.
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I have no evidence that the WWF is corrupt[br]but they do help the industry...
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...to extend its[br]reach still further.
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They take consultancy fees to greenwash[br]destructive production practices.
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They adhere to the same[br]strategy as the corporation...
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...which can now go ahead and[br]annihilate the rainforests...
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...with the blessing[br]of the WWF.
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A driving tour of a[br]biologically dead zone.
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Rats are the only[br]animals still living there.
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WWF functionaries have joined[br]forces with the industry lobby...
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...to propose such plantations be[br]recognised as 'reforestation'.
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If they succeed, the palm oil[br]companies will also...
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...get emission credits[br]as a profit bonus.
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In this area the effluent is[br]simply fed into the ground.
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They are contaminating[br]the nearby river.
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This is prohibited by[br]land use regulations.
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Oil palms have to grow for five years[br]before the first oil fruit can be harvested.
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We got lost driving through the endless[br]monotony of the plantations.
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Thanks to gps we managed to[br]find our way out of the labyrinth.
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Near evening, we arrived in[br]Sembulu, a last leftover village.
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The people here once lived in and[br]from the rainforest as forest farmers.
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But the government has leased[br]the land to industry.
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A very few have found[br]work on the plantations...
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...others can earn a living[br]from fishing the lake.
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But runoff from the nearby oil[br]mills is polluting the water.
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The farmers have not yet conceded[br]the fight for their land...
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...some of them even[br]have land deeds.
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But the government has leased[br]their forest to the...
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...Wilmar Corporation nonetheless.
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Nordin has founded the human[br]rights group Save Our Borneo...
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...and advices[br]the farmers.
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Nordin got an[br]unexpected sms:
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Get out of Sembulu immediately or[br]we'll get rid of you permanently.
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It wasn't the first time the environmental[br]activist had received a death threat.
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One of the farmers invited us on an excursion[br]into his former tropical forest garden.
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This was my land. I had planted fruit[br]trees amongst the trees of the forest.
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Here stood the big rubber trees[br]that were my livelihood.
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One day, heavy machinery came[br]and crushed everything in its path...
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...with no clearance permit.
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I went to Wilmar management[br]and objected.
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In vain. And I even have[br]a deed of ownership.
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This is the land[br]of my ancestors.
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For five years I had been fighting[br]against the company.
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Once, they even sent the[br]military to chase me off...
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...but I keep coming back.
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Baktaran chops down the hated oil palms[br]and risks landing in prison for doing so.
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Like these farmers, who[br]also fought expropriation.
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How am I supposed to feed[br]my children? It's hopeless.
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Help us.
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It sickens the soul,[br]we're innocent.
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At the WWF office in the capital Jakarta we[br]confronted Amalia Prameswari with the pictures.
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She is responsible for the palm[br]oil partnership with Wilmar.
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Personally I have not heard[br]of this case until today.
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And well, it's.. it would be a[br]disappointment of course that, say..
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...that Wilmar really let this… [br]such thing happen.
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On the other hand, they also have other sustainability[br]practices in place in other areas of Indonesia.
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Such as here, on this[br]plantation in Sawit.
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It literally stinks to high heaven,[br]due to untreated waste water.
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This plantation was in the process of[br]being certified 'sustainable' with the seal...
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...of approval of the Round Table on[br]Sustainable Palm Oil
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...an organisation that unites over 400[br]palm oil industry players and the WWF.
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With the green stamp of approval[br]the company can cash in on...
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...European subsidies for[br]regenerative energy.
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Environmental organisations, such as Greenpeace,[br]characterise the certification system practice...
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...by the WWF and industry[br]as 'fraudulent labelling'.
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There is no biodiversity and[br]too many chemicals.
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So animals cannot live here…
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...too many chemicals and[br]there is no biodiversity.
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On to the next Wilmar plantation.
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Here, the WWF had managed to[br]stipulate that some of the forest...
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...not to be chopped down.
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Eighty hectares were left intact.
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Eighty, from 14,500.
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In the midst of the palm oil production[br]site we found the remaining bit of forest.
0:19:57.720,0:20:01.640
You can walk across it[br]in twenty minutes.
0:20:04.760,0:20:10.060
This used to be a significant[br]orang utan habitat.
0:20:11.060,0:20:15.560
According to our monitoring[br]a few months ago...
0:20:15.860,0:20:18.400
...we found two orang utans here.
0:20:20.800,0:20:23.420
The forest is too small.
0:20:24.040,0:20:29.140
Orang utans need very[br]much forest to find food.
0:20:30.060,0:20:33.760
To survive they go[br]into the plantation...
0:20:33.900,0:20:40.200
...and of course the company[br]gets angry and kills them.
0:20:41.820,0:20:44.400
A token 'sustainable forest'.
0:20:45.400,0:20:50.460
What compels the WWF to get[br]into bed with agribusiness?
0:20:52.640,0:20:55.880
The search for an answer took us[br]to Geneva, Switzerland...
0:20:56.140,0:20:58.760
...the epicentre of global[br]agricultural trading...
0:20:59.420,0:21:02.760
...an arena in which the WWF[br]appears quite at home.
0:21:03.520,0:21:07.020
The organisation offers green[br]certificates to industry...
0:21:07.460,0:21:12.280
...for tropical woods, corn, soy,[br]fish, sugar cane and palm oil.
0:21:13.140,0:21:16.760
The world congress for[br]bio-ethenol was in full swing.
0:21:16.960,0:21:21.560
The WWF was the only[br]NGO to be invited.
0:21:22.860,0:21:27.360
Dörte Bieler heads the biomass[br]section at WWF Germany.
0:21:27.740,0:21:30.880
We had to leave the hall[br]before her speech.
0:21:31.220,0:21:34.920
According to the minutes she offered the[br]industry players support for their business.
0:21:36.200,0:21:38.960
The WWF was in[br]favour, she said...
0:21:39.220,0:21:43.520
...of sacrificing even more[br]land for bio energy production.
0:21:44.440,0:21:52.460
She added: we're different than other nature[br]conservancy organisations. We're constructive.
0:21:54.720,0:22:01.060
We filmed in Indonesia at a new plantation[br]created with the approval of the WWF.
0:22:02.020,0:22:07.040
It includes a high conservation value[br]forest that's been kept intact.
0:22:07.500,0:22:12.400
With orang utans. Eighty hectares on a[br]14,000 hectare plantation, 0,5 percent.
0:22:12.920,0:22:17.620
Can you call it a success when[br]99,5 percent is destroyed?'
0:22:19.040,0:22:20.780
It's a start.
0:22:21.540,0:22:24.000
If the WWF hadn't collaborated,[br]the company...
0:22:24.220,0:22:28.360
...would have converted the[br]entire rainforest to plantation.
0:22:29.140,0:22:33.040
Eighty hectares. That means[br]certain death for these orang utans.
0:22:33.600,0:22:37.640
Absolutely certain death would be if[br]the eighty hectares were gone too.
0:22:38.280,0:22:43.680
The intention may well be to enforce[br]sustainability by engaging in close dialogue...
0:22:43.940,0:22:50.120
...but isn't there a chance you could[br]fall into a trap and end up being...
0:22:50.400,0:22:54.180
...used to greenwash so to speak[br]this type of production?
0:22:54.660,0:22:58.320
The WWF has a very strict code of[br]conduct in order to prevent just that.
0:22:59.300,0:23:03.920
Our partnership contracts always state[br]that funding has no binding implications.
0:23:04.340,0:23:10.320
Both partners can terminate the relationship[br]should they ever become dissatisfied with it.
0:23:13.000,0:23:15.300
And that's enough for you?
0:23:16.000,0:23:21.680
The fact is, we live in a world with a global[br]economy and money plays an obvious role.
0:23:22.480,0:23:24.780
There are costs involved in everything[br]and I don't know why...
0:23:25.000,0:23:27.060
...you want to portray that[br]as something negative.
0:23:27.440,0:23:32.900
It costs money to fly here and[br]give a lecture for instance...
0:23:33.420,0:23:37.800
...but I have to be here in person[br]to deliver our message effectively.
0:23:38.920,0:23:44.340
You know what I mean though. Other nature conservancy[br]organisations reject major donations.
0:23:44.640,0:23:53.040
They say the risk of dependency is too great[br]when you close ranks with big industry.
0:23:57.120,0:24:00.740
Yes, but other NGOs perhaps[br]don't have the same impact.
0:24:01.580,0:24:05.240
Ok, what is your impact?[br]Where is the success?
0:24:08.000,0:24:10.680
For one thing, as an ngo it's[br]nice not to be sneered at...
0:24:10.960,0:24:13.820
...but to be accepted as a[br]competent dialogue partner.
0:24:14.700,0:24:17.080
Our work is science-based.
0:24:17.640,0:24:22.920
We always do a study first before expressing an[br]opinion and we try not to rely on emotionality.
0:24:23.840,0:24:28.700
We've been able to achieve quite a[br]bit with this science-based approach.
0:24:29.940,0:24:30.960
For example?
0:24:36.300,0:24:40.640
I couldn't come up with anything[br]you wouldn't find fault with.
0:24:42.540,0:24:44.560
How is this for an example?
0:24:44.780,0:24:46.720
The HSBC bank in London.
0:24:46.920,0:24:50.100
It's a member of the Round Table on[br]Sustainable Palm Oil...
0:24:50.340,0:24:52.240
...founded by the WWF.
0:24:53.140,0:24:57.360
The world's largest bank provides[br]financing for the palm oil industry...
0:24:57.640,0:25:00.940
...and the WWF isn't[br]left empty-handed.
0:25:01.080,0:25:08.100
The bank has donated one 100 million[br]dollars to a climate partnership with the WWF.
0:25:09.160,0:25:13.980
So many of these companies are being[br]criticised for contaminating the environment...
0:25:14.060,0:25:20.480
...for deforestation, destroying rivers.
0:25:22.460,0:25:24.640
They need some kind of cover.
0:25:26.100,0:25:31.600
Companies are essentially buying[br]the panda, just to greenwash things.
0:25:32.080,0:25:38.240
By saying, oh yes we have an alliance[br]with the WWF, so everything's fine.
0:25:38.860,0:25:41.760
Mac Chapin lives at the[br]foot of the Rocky Mountains.
0:25:41.980,0:25:45.760
An anthropologist, he has[br]worked for over forty years...
0:25:45.980,0:25:48.040
...with indigenous people[br]in the rainforests.
0:25:48.240,0:25:51.800
He has first-hand experience[br]with the WWF.
0:25:52.940,0:25:58.440
The indigenous people have awful problems with[br]the penetration of petroleum companies...
0:25:58.600,0:26:02.400
...mining and the[br]biofuel plantations.
0:26:03.040,0:26:07.760
They're just sweeping[br]through those areas...
0:26:12.240,0:26:16.600
...and a number of these companies give[br]money to the conservation groups...
0:26:18.320,0:26:22.200
...and so they tend to stay away[br]from criticising them.
0:26:23.140,0:26:27.200
They're working with the companies[br]that are destroying the ecosystem.
0:26:27.740,0:26:31.480
Now, to say that they are influencing them[br]in one way or another...
0:26:32.580,0:26:34.680
...I just don't see it.
0:26:38.760,0:26:42.040
The WWF was built[br]on old money.
0:26:42.620,0:26:50.400
Founding members included A list British aristocracy[br]with solid family, financial and educational pedigrees.
0:26:51.140,0:26:54.280
Sir Peter Scott, celebrated natural[br]scientist, took prince Philip...
0:26:54.480,0:26:58.340
...sailing to fill him[br]in on the WWF project.
0:27:00.000,0:27:04.020
Peter Scott said we're going to set[br]this thing up, and would I be president?
0:27:05.100,0:27:07.800
I said I would be[br]president of the UK thing...
0:27:07.820,0:27:10.720
...but I wouldn't be of the international because...
0:27:10.740,0:27:13.560
...I was president of the International[br]Equestrian Federation at the time...
0:27:13.660,0:27:17.680
...and I said I can't do two[br]international things at once.
0:27:17.820,0:27:21.400
But I said I know that prince[br]Bernhard of The Netherlands is very interested...
0:27:21.460,0:27:25.060
...in wild animals[br]and conservation.
0:27:25.140,0:27:28.360
He happens to be staying at The[br]Carriages so if you pop along...
0:27:28.400,0:27:30.400
...and ask him.[br]You may get him.
0:27:30.480,0:27:32.220
This is what he did.
0:27:32.440,0:27:38.700
Prince Bernhard came on board bringing the[br]first corporate sponsor - Shell - along with him.
0:27:38.800,0:27:45.440
In 1967, thousands of seabirds perished[br]after an oil tanker spill off the coast of France.
0:27:45.560,0:27:55.880
WWF leadership prohibited any form of criticism "that could[br]jeopardise donations from certain branches of industry."
0:27:56.040,0:28:00.380
Bernhard also looked after Africa,[br]where wild game poachers...
0:28:00.500,0:28:04.320
...were an increasing[br]problem in the national parks.
0:28:04.880,0:28:10.660
The WWF financed armed anti-poaching[br]commandos. In Zimbabwe for example...
0:28:10.780,0:28:12.920
...there were dozens of dead...
0:28:13.000,0:28:15.120
...including innocent bystanders.
0:28:15.240,0:28:20.200
In a top-secret action in 1989, the[br]WWF deployed a mercenary unit...
0:28:20.320,0:28:23.480
...from the security company[br]KAS Enterprises...
0:28:23.620,0:28:28.160
...close collaborators with apartheid[br]South Africa's secret services.
0:28:28.240,0:28:34.200
Internal documentation was leaked[br]to the news service Africa Confidential.
0:28:34.400,0:28:38.200
It seems to have been thought[br]up by prince Bernhard...
0:28:38.320,0:28:44.020
...and John Hanks, a WWF official.
0:28:44.240,0:28:50.040
They got the idea that they would raise[br]money and hire some British security company...
0:28:50.120,0:28:54.180
...former SAS soldiers, to[br]go to southern Africa.
0:28:54.300,0:29:00.960
There they told various people they were[br]going to find out who was poaching rhino horn.
0:29:01.020,0:29:03.640
They were going to kill them.
0:29:03.760,0:29:08.620
Bernhard gave them I think it[br]was about 500,000 pounds.
0:29:08.820,0:29:11.920
He raised this in the[br]most extraordinary way.
0:29:11.980,0:29:16.760
He sold two old master paintings[br]from his wife's collection...
0:29:16.840,0:29:21.080
...the former queen[br]of The Netherlands.
0:29:21.180,0:29:24.480
I think these were the[br]two paintings he sold.
0:29:24.540,0:29:28.920
These were offered at[br]Sotheby's at auction...
0:29:29.000,0:29:33.060
...with the proceedings going to the[br]WWF. In other words to charity.
0:29:33.200,0:29:37.240
But it later transpired that the[br]WWF then gave the money...
0:29:37.360,0:29:41.720
...or lend the money back to[br]Bernhard - secretly - and...
0:29:41.840,0:29:45.400
...that was the money he paid[br]to the British company KAS.
0:29:45.480,0:29:51.480
Prince Bernhard also established a nature[br]trust for the WWF. The 1001 Club.
0:29:51.580,0:29:55.920
Its founding members were[br]aristocrats, captains of industry...
0:29:56.860,0:30:01.360
...leaders of the South African apartheid[br]regime and the odd despotic ruler.
0:30:02.840,0:30:06.660
Such as Mobutu Sese Seko,[br]the dictator of Zaire.
0:30:08.120,0:30:14.180
And Jose Martinez de Hoz, number two[br]man in Argentina's military dictatorship.
0:30:14.340,0:30:17.000
A major landowner, big game[br]hunter and founder...
0:30:17.080,0:30:20.260
...of the Argentine[br]section of the WWF.
0:30:20.380,0:30:26.440
As minister of the economy, Martinez de Hoz[br]opened the country to international agribusiness.
0:30:30.940,0:30:33.520
Fact finding in Buenos Aires.
0:30:36.820,0:30:41.280
We had a rendezvous at the Plaza[br]San Martín with Jorge Rulli.
0:30:41.360,0:30:44.880
The former resistance fighter[br]spent five years in prison.
0:30:45.000,0:30:47.100
He lost a kidney and an[br]eye as a result...
0:30:47.220,0:30:50.540
...of the torture he[br]endured there.
0:30:52.720,0:30:57.660
This high rise is home to his old[br]arch enemy Jose Martinez de Hoz.
0:30:57.840,0:31:03.000
He lives there under house arrest,[br]sentenced for crimes against humanity.
0:31:03.860,0:31:07.280
Across the square is the[br]home of Monsanto, the...
0:31:07.380,0:31:10.480
...world's largest genetic[br]engineering corporation.
0:31:10.600,0:31:15.380
For Jorge Rulli, it is the[br]secret ruler of Argentina.
0:31:19.440,0:31:25.380
Monsanto and the WWF are[br]two arms of the same body.
0:31:25.600,0:31:29.940
One arm Monsanto, has managed[br]to establish its monoculture...
0:31:30.060,0:31:32.180
...production model[br]throughout Argentina.
0:31:32.300,0:31:37.800
The other arm - the WWF - is working to[br]make this model socially acceptable.
0:31:37.920,0:31:42.220
Even though it's destroying[br]our traditional agriculture.
0:31:42.520,0:31:49.000
They try to convince us GM soy is good,[br]you can even produce it sustainably.
0:31:49.320,0:31:52.900
The WWF is seeing to[br]it that we and...
0:31:52.980,0:31:57.660
...public opinion in Europe[br]accept the Monsanto soy.
0:32:00.340,0:32:04.900
Just outside Buenos Aires[br]begins Monsanto land.
0:32:05.100,0:32:07.720
Soy fields as far as[br]the eye can see.
0:32:07.880,0:32:10.820
Biodiesel crops for[br]Europe and the USA.
0:32:10.980,0:32:16.040
Global oil players, such as BP and[br]Shell and car companies like...
0:32:16.120,0:32:20.220
...VW and Toyota have a stake[br]in this multi-billion sector.
0:32:20.400,0:32:24.020
No more room for beans,[br]wheat or potatoes.
0:32:24.180,0:32:27.760
Even the famed Argentine[br]beef is now in short supply.
0:32:27.840,0:32:33.480
Many villages have become[br]dilapidated ghost towns.
0:32:35.320,0:32:42.320
Monsanto soy needs a lot of herbicide because[br]the weeds become resistant within a few years.
0:32:42.860,0:32:47.280
The farmers have to pay a licence fee[br]from Monsanto's seeds annually.
0:32:47.520,0:32:51.400
And they have to buy the[br]companion pesticide Roundup...
0:32:51.520,0:32:54.040
...a further development[br]of Agent Orange...
0:32:54.180,0:32:58.560
...the notorious defoliant deployed[br]by the USA in the Vietnam war.
0:33:01.020,0:33:04.800
Within a day of spraying,[br]all plant life is snuffed out.
0:33:05.000,0:33:07.960
Only the soy seedlings survive. A gene[br]has been inserted...
0:33:08.120,0:33:11.700
...that makes the plant[br]resistant to the toxin.
0:33:12.020,0:33:14.000
But people are not.
0:33:14.300,0:33:17.840
Roundup damages human[br]genetic material.
0:33:18.880,0:33:20.480
Roundup…
0:33:21.200,0:33:25.020
If you invite me to drink[br]a glass of Roundup...
0:33:26.140,0:33:29.160
...or to smell it for a[br]couple of hours directly.
0:33:29.760,0:33:34.260
I would say no, this will k...[br]can hurt me of course.
0:33:35.600,0:33:38.160
On the other hand...
0:33:40.620,0:33:44.360
...like anything if you use it,[br]the product...
0:33:45.260,0:33:50.120
...and I don't have any[br]relationship with Monsanto...
0:33:50.720,0:33:52.900
I want to be very[br]clear on that...
0:33:53.540,0:33:58.600
If you talk about[br]risks of technology...
0:34:03.860,0:34:08.520
... in terms of accidents[br]or illnesses...
0:34:09.159,0:34:16.199
...we should then eliminate[br]planes and cars….
0:34:24.040,0:34:28.159
Argentina is on the brink[br]of ecological collapse...
0:34:28.219,0:34:33.520
...and the WWF tells[br]us everything's ok..
0:34:35.060,0:34:38.080
It's a business that lives[br]from its sponsors.
0:34:38.980,0:34:42.920
In Argentina that means many major[br]corporations, from the soy producers...
0:34:42.980,0:34:45.440
...to the telephone company.
0:34:46.540,0:34:49.400
They all want to clear[br]their guilty conscience.
0:34:49.960,0:34:53.480
They donate to the WWF[br]to polish their image.
0:34:55.040,0:34:59.040
The companies can rely on the[br]WWF. It gives them room to move.
0:35:03.780,0:35:06.240
We headed north on[br]the soy highway.
0:35:06.860,0:35:12.640
One thousand kilometres and nothing but[br]soy all the way to the foothills of the Andes.
0:35:13.340,0:35:18.800
And poison is sprayed over all of it. This area[br]would be seeded with soy in a few days time...
0:35:19.520,0:35:25.740
...but the fields had already been treated with Monsanto's[br]Roundup and already everything was already dead.
0:35:26.740,0:35:30.440
Independent studies prove that[br]Roundup is damaging to humans.
0:35:30.920,0:35:33.960
Cancer rates rise where[br]it is used and...
0:35:34.440,0:35:37.100
...more and more infants[br]are born with birth defects.
0:35:38.500,0:35:42.200
The united soy republic[br]of South America.
0:35:42.400,0:35:47.340
That's what it says in the[br]advertisements for big soy producers.
0:35:48.400,0:35:52.800
They propagated genetically modified[br]soy all across South America.
0:35:53.200,0:35:57.400
Even though Brazil and Paraguay had[br]prohibited gm soy by law.
0:35:57.520,0:36:00.140
Monsanto just took it over the border[br]from Argentina and spread it...
0:36:00.220,0:36:03.180
... throughout Uruguay, Brazil,[br]Paraguay and Bolivia.
0:36:03.280,0:36:07.600
With the blessing of the[br]Argentine government.
0:36:11.400,0:36:16.280
In 2003, WWF Argentina held[br]a dialogue with the industry.
0:36:16.480,0:36:19.940
How can the country become[br]the leading biodiesel superpower?
0:36:20.100,0:36:22.900
Absurdly, they were[br]talking to themselves.
0:36:22.980,0:36:25.880
Dr. Héctor Laurence was not[br]only the head of the WWF...
0:36:26.160,0:36:29.660
...but also president of the[br]agricultural association AMIA...
0:36:30.420,0:36:34.220
...and director of the GMO[br]company Morgan Seeds.
0:36:35.120,0:36:40.260
I'm independent, with no company[br]affiliations at present.
0:36:41.260,0:36:43.880
But you were also president[br]of Morgan Seeds.
0:36:44.300,0:36:48.000
Yes, of course. And also[br]of Pioneer [Overseas].
0:36:49.580,0:36:54.920
That's obvious. I have an[br]absolutely clear conscience.
0:36:56.320,0:37:01.220
Because I am independent I have[br]been able to bring both sides together.
0:37:08.660,0:37:14.280
With prudence, information, science[br]and facts instead of ideology...
0:37:14.840,0:37:17.820
...industry and environmentalism[br]can work...
0:37:18.200,0:37:21.040
...together and find[br]solutions for progress.
0:37:27.460,0:37:35.560
I believe that genetic engineering and[br]biodiversity are perfectly compatible.
0:37:39.860,0:37:45.960
The Chaco region in northern Argentina is home[br]to one of the world's largest savannah habitats.
0:37:46.540,0:37:47.960
Or at least it was.
0:37:48.380,0:37:51.520
Over half of it has already[br]been deforested.
0:37:52.080,0:37:56.640
The soy desert of South America already[br]covers an area the size of Germany.
0:37:56.820,0:37:59.040
The plan is to double it.
0:37:59.740,0:38:03.120
The WWF has green-lighted the[br]project, deeming the Chaco forests...
0:38:03.340,0:38:07.760
...'substandard' and degraded[br]by human exploitation.
0:38:08.120,0:38:11.760
It's open season for burning[br]and pillaging.
0:38:12.340,0:38:17.000
But this area was also the habitat[br]of jaguars, monkeys and birds.
0:38:17.860,0:38:20.720
And there was a great[br]diversity of plant life.
0:38:20.920,0:38:24.220
People lived here too. Like[br]the farming family Rojas.
0:38:25.080,0:38:28.660
They have lost their land[br]in the forest and have to...
0:38:29.500,0:38:33.600
...make due with a much[br]smaller compensation plot.
0:38:40.400,0:38:43.500
Since the forest is gone, we[br]have suffered from drought.
0:38:43.660,0:38:45.560
It hardly rains at all anymore.
0:38:46.000,0:38:52.740
The soy companies don't care about that.[br]But our seeds just dry up in the fields.
0:38:54.140,0:38:57.320
The big producers[br]all live in the city.
0:38:57.360,0:39:00.540
They don't know the[br]land and nature.
0:39:00.580,0:39:03.180
They don't have a clue.
0:39:05.860,0:39:10.040
The farmers here, gauchos of the[br]forest they call themselves...
0:39:10.100,0:39:14.880
...work in the forest and use its[br]resources without destroying it.
0:39:15.020,0:39:18.100
Farmer Santana had lived[br]here for fifty years.
0:39:18.220,0:39:20.840
According to customary[br]law, the land was his...
0:39:21.120,0:39:25.340
...but the provincial government[br]sold it to a soy company.
0:39:33.880,0:39:37.140
People from the provincial administration[br]came here and said:
0:39:37.200,0:39:41.240
We'll let you keep a piece of your land[br]where you can rear your animals.
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But then they came with their heavy[br]machinery and destroyed the entire forest.
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What can I do? Without land deeds[br]there is no way we can fight it.
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You first have to determine whether the[br]forest land really belongs to these people...
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...or if they've[br]simply claimed it.
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And then, look at the poor quality[br]of life these people have.
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No drinking water, no[br]health care services.
0:40:20.140,0:40:22.400
Often no education.
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What they need is training and[br]jobs and new technologies.
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An on-site inspection.
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The soy frontline has reached[br]the periphery of the village.
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No farmers are[br]needed there now.
0:40:46.320,0:40:50.860
The rich northern hemisphere is trying to solve[br]its energy problems with diesel made out from soy...
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...at the cost of food[br]production in the south.
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Every year they spray herbicide...
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...from airplanes too.
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One of those planes[br]flew over our house.
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The plants all died, and[br]I got a skin rash.
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I lost my baby.
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I was in the ninth month of pregnancy[br]when they delivered the girl by cesarian.
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She was dead and[br]had several deformities.
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Several doctors studied[br]the case and...
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...they all concluded that the deformities[br]were the result of the toxic spraying.
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The herbicide had[br]damaged the dna.
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That happened to me.
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According to the health authorities the rate of birth[br]defects in the Chaco soy region has risen by 400%.
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To cut costs the aircraft often spray[br]an especially dangerous cocktail:
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A mixture of herbicides,[br]pesticides and fungicides.
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The pilots aren't allowed[br]to fly over the villages...
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...but there is still no[br]escaping the toxic shower.
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We fly at just three metres[br]above the fields at high speeds.
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Just a small gust of wind and the[br]substances spread across a large area...
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...up to five kilometres wide.
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Can't you prevent it[br]from reaching the villages?
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No, that's impossible.
0:42:53.620,0:42:58.720
A year ago I flew into a[br]power line and crashed.
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I had inhaled some of the poison pesticides[br]that had seeped into the cockpit.
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That clouds your perception
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I was no longer able to judge[br]the distance to the power lines.
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In an unprecedented fight for land,[br]the WWF has taken Monsanto's side.
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At the 2010 Round Table for Responsible[br]Soy the two made a deal.
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Effective immediately Monsanto's gm soy[br]could bear the 'produced sustainably' seal.
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Misleading labelling:
0:43:39.460,0:43:43.840
The only sustainable growth here[br]is in Monsanto's revenues.
0:43:44.000,0:43:47.660
The genetic engineering industry has[br]the panda in its pocket...
0:43:47.680,0:43:51.080
...but no one is[br]supposed to notice.
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Are you for or against[br]genetic engineering?
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That's irrelevant. I[br]represent the WWF.
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So of course you must have a position[br]and I like to know what it is.
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I'm very sorry, I don't[br]want to be rude but...
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...I'm not authorised to express[br]my personal opinion.
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I'm here as spokesperson for[br]WWF Germany and International.
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If there is no official opinion,[br]I won't express one.
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So WWF International[br]has no opinion?
0:44:21.860,0:44:25.680
We decided to give[br]WWF USA a try.
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Most members of the organisation know[br]nothing of the deals made by its leadership.
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In many cases because[br]they would rather not know.
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At the headquarters in Washington DC, we[br]made contact with a department head.
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He revealed to us that Monsanto boss Hugh Grant[br]had been there in person in the summer of 2010...
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...for a summit meeting.
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The outcome of the[br]discussions remain secret.
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WWF vice-president Jason Clay[br]is in charge of the partnership.
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Surprisingly, he agreed[br]to speak with us...
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...but WWF Germany asked[br]him to cancel the interview.
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The reason: there were fears[br]donors and trustees...
0:45:10.400,0:45:16.140
...might pull out if Jason Clay told[br]the truth about the Monsanto deal.
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Jason Clay cancelled[br]the confirmed interview.
0:45:20.540,0:45:24.400
We really appreciate[br]dr. Jason Clay...
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We managed to find Jason Clay after all on[br]the website of the Global Harvest Initiative...
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...a corporate agriculture[br]lobby group..
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Members include the agri giants Cargill, ADM,[br]Monsanto and most recently, the WWF.
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We need to freeze the[br]footprint of agriculture.
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And we think there are seven or[br]eight things - and you can disagree...
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...that's great, let's get the discussion[br]started - that we need to work on.
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One is genetics.
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We have got to produce[br]more with less.
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We need to focus not just on temperate crops,[br]not just on annual crops, but on tropical crops...
0:46:15.940,0:46:18.660
...on orphan crops, on crops[br]that produce more...
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...calories per input per[br]hectare with fewer impacts.
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We need to get our priorities right.[br]We need to start focussing...
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...on the food production where it's needed,[br]what's needed and how to move forward.
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It takes at least fifteen years, maybe longer, to[br]bring a genetically engineered product to market.
0:46:44.500,0:46:50.260
If we don't start today[br]we're already at 2025.
0:46:50.520,0:46:52.600
The clock is ticking.
0:46:52.720,0:46:55.020
We need to get moving,[br]there is a sense of urgency.
0:46:55.100,0:46:58.080
Alright. Well Jason,[br]thanks, good job.
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A clear endorsement of the[br]brave new Monsanto world.
0:47:07.520,0:47:14.820
Agribusiness is busy reapportioning[br]planet earth with the WWF right by its side.
0:47:15.140,0:47:19.480
In Indonesian Papua up[br]to 9 million hectares...
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...have been earmarked for oil palm[br]plantations, according to an agreement...
0:47:24.180,0:47:27.800
...between the provincial[br]government and the WWF.
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The WWF mapped the tribal[br]land itself and is helping...
0:47:33.140,0:47:37.440
...to choose the sites[br]for the plantations.
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Who does the rainforest[br]belong to?
0:47:44.620,0:47:46.840
Local communities.
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The land still belongs[br]to the tribes.
0:47:53.880,0:47:58.800
Do they know that they are planning[br]to plant 9 million hectares with oil palms?
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We'll inform them, so that they[br]are aware of what is being planned.
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Otherwise they won't[br]give up their land.
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That would lead to conflicts.
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We have to explain it to them because[br]they're still not open to the development.
0:48:16.480,0:48:20.720
Some are worried: Where will I[br]live if I sell off all my land?
0:48:20.800,0:48:23.780
They also can't imagine[br]working on a plantation.
0:48:24.060,0:48:28.360
Some on the other hand think, if[br]I sell up for 16 thousand dollars...
0:48:28.420,0:48:34.680
...I'll be able to live up to fifty years[br]on that. They have understood.
0:48:41.040,0:48:48.660
We visited one of the spots on the WWF map[br]destined for 1 million hectares of oil palms.
0:48:48.720,0:48:52.240
It is the ancestral homeland[br]of the Kanume tribe.
0:48:52.580,0:48:56.960
They do not yet know[br]that their time is up.
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Surveyors came here[br]accompanied by soldiers.
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But they can't take the[br]rainforest away from us.
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I am in power here,[br]and defend the forest.
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Soldiers have weapons[br]but they respect me.
0:49:20.260,0:49:23.520
If I want I can cast[br]a spell on them.
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The gods and our ancestors[br]live in the rainforest.
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It is the source of life.
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No one may destroy it.