Paul Rosolie: prediction

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…So how much of the land that they move about is within the 130,000 acres of rainforest you’ve been able to save? And how much of it is not? How much of it is in the extra 200,000 acres that you’re trying to save? Most of that 200,000 that we’re still trying to protect is territory that is theirs. People always ask me this. They’re like, “How could you buy the Amazon? That doesn’t make sense.” And it’s like, well, I have bad news for you. Somebody already owns it and we have to buy it from them so that they don’t log it. These landowners are going to sell their forest to the logging companies because owning 10,000 acres of the Amazon doesn’t help you if you’re a third generation jungle man. If you live in the city, they’re going to contract either the narcos or the loggers or the miners to go out there and use it, and they’ll get a little money. And those people, when they see these tribes, will kill them. That’s for sure. Shotguns and machine guns in the end will win, not to mention the germs. So all the money you’re trying to raise and all the land that you’re trying to save, it’s all towards that, protecting the deep jungle. So when you buy up the jungle, you just want to let it be, let the natural ecosystem come back to life in the cases when it was logged or just flourish— …if it hasn’t?…

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