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In the heart of the primary forests, five guardians rise up to stop the destruction of these green lungs essential to our planet. In this part: the daily struggle of Tumursukh Jal in the heart of the red taiga of Mongolia. Spread over nearly 2 million hectares on the Siberian border, the red taiga of Mongolia draws a vast forest area rich in its biodiversity. Formerly polluted by industry, the site has been classified as a nature reserve since 2014, but poachers and gold miners continue to operate there. At the head of a handful of rangers, Tumursukh Jal has a lot to do to prevent these illegal practices, even if it means attracting the reproaches of part of his community. Strong personalities From the ballet of trucks loaded with logs to the flames of derricks, there are many faces of a deforestation that spares no continent. In fifty years, the increasingly insistent cries of alarm about climate change and the collapse of biodiversity have proven powerless to stop this deadly process. However, consciences are facing the emergency, mobilizing and innovating. In local cultures closely linked to nature, the universal is at stake, as evidenced by the indigenous leaders of this sumptuous documentary series – served by the music of Piers Faccini –, fighting for the survival of the last five great primary forests of the globe: Twyla the Native American (Canada), Tumursukh the Mongolian, Mambongo the Gabonese, Mundiya the Papuan and Benki the Brazilian. Far from folklorizing their struggles, Guardians of the Forest invites us to make room for their vision of the world while there is still time. Listening to these strong personalities, inseparable from the ecosystems they defend, a reconnection takes place, in radical rupture with the reification and commodification of nature that have become our ordinary. Documentary by Hamid Sardar (France, 2023, 1h28mn) Subscribe to the ARTE channel / @arte Follow us on social networks! Facebook: / artetv Twitter: / artefr Instagram: / artefr