How to Protect the Rainforest
For our final installment in the Amazon Adventures series, I interviewed expedition leader Corine Vriesendorp about what it means to protect and conserve areas of the rainforest in spite of...
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[The Brain Scoop theme song] Corine: So, Emily, this is one of the trees that was cut down here. This is about 2 meters in diameter. It's just a huge tree that, who knows, may be 2000 years old. Emily: Wow. Corine: Yeah. And cut down for timber. And this is one of the sort of higher end timber species here in Peru. Some of them they actually take in barges and then they go Pacific Ocean. The others, they go Atlantic Ocean. Emily: So, this tree is going to make quite the journey over the next couple of years. Corine: Totally. And the papers that will accompany it will never say that it came from right here. Emily: Really. Corine: Yeah. No way. Emily: And this was cut down by local indigenous peoples not the timber industry. Or were they ...
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[The Brain Scoop theme song] Corine: So, Emily, this is one of the trees that was cut down here. This is about 2 meters in diameter. It's just a huge tree that, who knows, may be 2000 years old. Emily: Wow. Corine: Yeah. And cut down for timber. And this is one of the sort of higher end timber species here in Peru. Some of them they actually take in barges and then they go Pacific Ocean. The others, they go Atlantic Ocean. Emily: So, this tree is going to make quite the journey over the next couple of years. Corine: Totally. And the papers that will accompany it will never say that it came from right here. Emily: Really. Corine: Yeah. No way. Emily: And this was cut down by local indigenous peoples not the timber industry. Or were they ...
