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Available until 05/20/2027 In the heart of the primary forests, five guardians rise up to raise awareness and stop the destruction of these green lungs that are essential to our planet. In this part: Papuan chief Mundiya Kepanga shares the concrete solutions put in place to preserve the forest in Papua New Guinea. A tireless defender of primary forests, Papuan customary chief Mundiya Kepanga pleaded their cause in 2017 in the documentary Brothers of the Trees. With the same film crew, he is this time crisscrossing his country to explore sustainable management methods for forest areas. Papua New Guinea has stopped many concessions for the exploitation of its natural resources. This island state in Oceania is conducting a national inventory of its biodiversity and developing ambitious agroforestry programs. Strong personalities From the ballet of trucks loaded with logs to the flames of derricks, there are many faces of 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 demonstrated 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 on 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 series (France, 2023, 53mn) Subscribe to the ARTE channel / @arte Follow us on social networks! Facebook: / artetv Twitter: / artefr Instagram: / artefr