Nemo, Guardian of the Amazon Rainforest

Brut America

She is fighting against her country and against oil companies to save thousands of hectares of the Amazon rainforest. Meet Nemo, a member of the Waorani tribe in Ecuador.

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00:00Here, happy with the pot, here, happy with the pot, here, happy with the pot.

00:06The children have to sing that voice, and you can hear the voices of nature,

00:10if you send the sun.

00:12It's a traditional myth, that's why my mom says,

00:16sing so that the sun comes out.

00:30These are the trees of very old primaries,

00:33that have never been cut,

00:35that have never been cut,

00:37those of nature itself,

00:39this pambil, huayacán, laurel, cedar.

00:43That jungle is very green,

00:45they never cut it, they don't burn it,

00:47they don't destroy it to put cattle,

00:49it's like untouchable.

00:51For us, that jungle gives life.

00:53You say, ah, like a noise,

00:55Now?

00:57Yes.

00:59Here it's full of jaguars,

01:01it's like, phew, a lot.

01:03I don't know,

01:05like something is ringing there,

01:07ah, ah, like,

01:09I think the jaguar of nature

01:11is already smelling us,

01:13the smell that we have another smell.

01:15It's like, we have to go,

01:17get out of here.

01:19Look, there are no trees,

01:21they are cut from this road,

01:23from this cattle ranch,

01:25we are not going to allow it

01:27in our urban territory to pass.

01:50Let's go!

02:10I haven't seen my guacamayo either.

02:13Where is it?

02:15Where is it?

02:17Give me the bread, give me the bread.

02:19Who wants bread?

02:23My father says that when you put a red feather on your spear,

02:27it means that you are going to fight a war.

02:30With that spear they fought to protect the territory.

02:34The invaders came in, whether they were colonists or others,

02:38ethnicities, nationalities, they killed them with that.

02:41Now he doesn't kill people, but with that he hunts animals.

02:47Give me bread!

02:58I made a big, giant window because I like to see the forest.

03:02In the morning I'm in bed and I want to be looking at the forest.

03:18Look, the plane, that's how we came.

03:20My ear was like ...

03:22Closed.

03:23Closed, it was like covering my nose, it was like that.

03:27Every time.

03:29Everything I'm looking at, all that oil extraction,

03:32that made oil, built oil for me.

03:36And that's how courage is born.

03:39And we have to suffer for their lives.

03:42That fight is for you, for me, and for your children.

03:46And we want to leave good clean water,

03:50pure air, that is not polluted for our children,

03:55that they can live well.

03:57And that is my concern.

04:10We want to live like this, healthy, free,

04:12fish and eat happily.

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