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Keywords
Agriculture
Deforestation
Destruction
Forest fires
Forests (campaign title)
Genetic engineering
Greenpeace staff
KWCI (GPI)
Soya beans
Noemi Cruz Soundbite
Soundbite of Noemi Cruz, Greenpeace Argentina North West coordinator speaks during bulldozer blockade action.
Bulldozers are clearing the forests of South America at an alarming rate. In Argentina areas of forest the size of a football pitch disappear every three minutes. The social consequences are just as devastating; small farmers and indigenous communities are forcibly evicted from their land by government-supported GE Soya landlords. All the trees knocked down by bulldozers are discarded onto huge piles, often kilometres long, and set alight. The cleared land can only support the GE soya monoculture for a few years before the soil nutrients disappear. The options then are to use more chemicals or just leave the land to become a desert and move on to clear more forest. This process contributes to climate change, biodiversity loss and human rights violations at the same time. Greenpeace 'Jaguar' activists use motorbikes and helicopters to place themselves between the bulldozers and the forest to stop the land being cleared to expand the GE Soya frontier further into what is left of the Great American Chaco Forest.
Unique identifier:
GP03F3W
Type:
Video
Shoot date:
24/08/2005
Locations:
Argentina
,
Chaco Province
,
South America
Credit line:
© Greenpeace
Duration:
34s
Audio format:
Natural
File size
53MB
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
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Jaguars against Deforestation in Argentina
Greenpeace activists are dressed as jaguars and have broken into a field with motorbikes and two helicopters to document forest destruction and to urge the local and national governments to stop deforestation in order to grow soya.
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