takayna | What If Running Could Save a Rainforest?
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- čas přidán 5. 06. 2018
- takayna / Tarkine in northwestern Tasmania is home to one of the last tracts of old-growth rainforest in the world, yet it’s currently at the mercy of destructive extraction industries, including logging and mining. This documentary, presented by Patagonia Films, unpacks the complexities of modern conservation and challenges us to consider the importance of our last wild places.
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As a fellow Aussie trail runner who lives in State Forestry Commission and National Park lands (NSW) I see this too often on my runs. I’ve felt Country talk freely to you and then run back to the same place months later to a silent and sterile wreck of splinters and dirt. This is a fundamental fight. The disease of man chasing money is real and it’s an epidemic. Thanks for showing a bit of the struggle. Nicely done. We fight on.
Where abouts do you mean ?
I have just moved back to the Sunshine Coast from Nz and want to know more about everything happening here
This A War!!! Smash The Logging Industry!!! Take Down The Government!!!
What a great comment. Well written, the visual of splinters and dirt sends it home
Thank you so much Patagonia for making this film. We are the care takers of the planet, and every time a logging truck passes our house a little bit of me dies. Dr. Bob has been a true warrior for the planet. The next generation need to learn from our mistakes. Less than 1% of Tasmanian jobs are related to logging, yet they have the loudest voice. That needs to change.
Incredible film. Thanks for releasing it on CZcams for everyone to watch, and hopefully many do watch it. I think this is a really important topic that many people overlook
I visited Tasmania and felt that it is definitely a spectacular place, its nature is amazing. Hope the tasmanian and aussie people can keep working to preserve that as it is and at the same time it provide jobs for people who live there. Sustainability is the key. Great film, Patagonia!
Cheers from Brazil!
I live near this Forest, it must be saved.
Oculus Rift what’s it’s actually like living in Tasmania ?
Terrific film, we here in British Colombia have been fighting the international timber companies for decades. It is all about the money no regard what so ever for the tragedy left behind. We did have a brave group of loggers a few years ago who put their saws down in an old growth forest and say I am not cutting these trees. That had the greatest impact, in years. So there are some that get it, most don't.
I love Tasmania! We need films like this and the people in them to make a difference! It's so sad to see the destruction of such sacred and beautiful places, but it's also hopeful to see the power of the human spirit in fighting to save these places. I hope this film makes a difference, I hope and pray we can save the Takayna!
Wow. Amazing film. Can’t believe humanity cannot see how much destruction and heartache they are causing to a miracle and literally once in a life time opportunity to live and breath on our planet. And this is all over the world. It’s just sad.
The issue is that this is hidden and the money making model for environmental vandalism has been set in concrete for a couple of centuries. Whilst there is money what is common sense will be pushed to the side and ignored. Now the bastards in government have turned to gated projects to keep out the cameras and hide their betrayal of the planet.
Beautiful film. I love Australians and I love Australia, but they’re infected with Affluenza and a greed for unsustainable economic growth like the rest of the world. I’m reminded once again of the proverb attributed to native Americans which is… “When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.”
Please do not tar us all with the same brush. It is actually a minority of aussies that wanna wipe all this out for a short term profit. Politicians will always side with those that bribe them the most, and now corporations have the same , if not more rights that individuals do. That is quite clearly a recipe for biological disaster.
I agree that a lot of Aussies are becoming selfish bogan's.. this man is telling it how it is.
Nearly everybody I know critisizes so called greenies and this includes my own family.
Sad but true.
Thank you so much for making this film - and for everyone in it championing Tassie's Tarkine Forest. As a Tasmanian, I've always had a natural disposition towards keeping our forests wild, but (and you captured it well) there is a huge tension between economic viability of small communities and the pursuit of environmentalism... In my humble opinion, despite it all, the forests are still worth fighting for because of their overall benefit to the whole ecosystem's wellbeing (humans included). I loved the expanding pie theory underpinning Greg Iron's (the Bonorong Park Director's) opinion. Everyone can win.
Eye opening documentary, with a beautiful score from Sanders Bolke. Appreciated the amount of languages avaliable in captions.
This is very eye opening. Thank You Patagonia for all that you do.
Thank you and keep up the good fight. You are brave, important people and deserve all the support and 💕☮️
Thanks, Patagonia! Love Tassie! Love the Tarkine! Blessings to all! : )
In Brasil we see the same hapening. In the state of Minas Gerais mining companies briber corrupt politics and remove original vegetation to plant eucaliptus. Here we call this areas "green deserts". Eucaliptus here is used to papper industry . And logging and mining companies are conected.
The problem with big business is that it WILL destroy the planet whilst there remains a buck in it. After that, when the media propaganda campaign is over, you will get people asking how could this happen. Never changes....nor does the big business and governments which are owned or controlled by wealthy people doing their business for...THEMSELVES.
what a magical place thank you for this beautiful documentary, Patagonia!
Thank you Patagonia
I just loved this XXX So beautiful and informative! XXX Thank you for this video!
As one of the characters said it is not an war with a winner and a loser. We are all living in the same planet. I believe there is a lack of education throughout the world. The same happens here in the Amazon, sadly.
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He was mistaken about war though, there are only losers in war.
If this continues to be logged then everyone loses in the end.
Such an incredibly beautiful forest ! I'll be so excited to run there every day.
thank you patagonia. you like the angel version of redbull. a commercial company investing in markting. just not formula 1, airraces or soccer teams, but rather advertising environmental awareness. you rule
That small clip, gliding over the tree tops to the mine had a scary beauty. It really looked epic, like when Treabeard in the Lord of the Rings crosses the boundaries of the forest and sees the destruction that has happenend.
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Incredible film, thank you for sharing! Breaks my heart to see the destruction humans cause on the land and on each other.🙏
great film i loved it also the guy asking what it has to do with the clothing company. Us greenies have to realise not everyone can afford to live or think in this way and likewise others need to understand the importance of nature it is such a hard balance and i dotn know the answer but hopefully clever people in the future can some how solve this. I think the tv series i bought a rain-forest is an amazing example of this of how he buys the rainforest then pays locals to run it for him, very expensive but definitely a step in the right direction i feel.
Wow! Just amazing, and sad! Well done film. I hope it gets the attention it needs and deserves.
What an inspiring way to tangibly use running for good! Thanks for making this! I'm always encouraged to see Nate Ptacek's name in the credits because I feel more connected to it. Nate may not remember be from SJU in Collegeville MN, but I sure do love what he's doing here. Thanks, and keep it up!
Thanks for the kind words, Chris! Cheers!
What a great film! I'm crying!
Amazing footage and inspiring impactful action that is still relevant to Takayna today. Thank you for making this video, will share it (as missed it just before moving to Tassie!) and hope to inspire others to take action.
love Tasmania still in my heart one of my fav place i visited. the great hikes of rivers forests mountains its what people come to visit for.
beautiful documentary.im so glad I found this channel
Amazing film. This really made me more passionate and appreciative about nature. We shouldn't forget to enjoy nature.
Beautifull documentary for a beautiful cause, it really shows the truth about our "sustentable planet" in our days and I think it motivates more and more people to adhere to this cause, congratulations to all the people that are fightinhg to a better planet for the younggest generations! Lets all support this cause, we only have one planet and we are not the only ones where, in fact the planet don't belong to us, we belong to the planet! Lets save it!
What a great film! There ase lots of similarities to what's happening here in Finland also.
This is why I buy Patagonia!!!
Thank you for opening our eyes
Mubarak Thursday eid mubarak
Tim Hale Eid Mubarak brother
Great movie!!! inspiring! Thank you!
Great video, although heartbreaking to discover, again and again, that we never learn but continue to needlessly destroy
Incredible film
Patagonia >>>> Your documentary about takayna/ Tarkine in NW Tasmania is one of the truly Wild places left
on our beautiful Earth. We really need to act as ambassodors to protect our Earths environment and especialy
places like the Trakine in Tasmania that have old growth Rainforests that have been here for thousands if not millions
for years. If we allow the distructive practices of large scale mining operations and the logging of the primal Rainforests
to coninue this path of mindless greed that will eventualy deminish our capacity to live with the true freedom of our
wilderness experience >>>>> Running our way to Freedom >>>>.Thanks to Patagonia for another Fantastic conservation
film that provides stewardship for our Worldwide Environment >>>>
Thank you. So good.
Thank you Patagonia! Beautiful and important.
I want to see Artifishal, a screening in Sweden/Europe coming up? Or can I find on iTunes/Netflix etc?
Keep up the good work
Keep an eye out for Artifishal film release later this year! Also try reaching out to our European offices via directsales.europe@patagonia.com or artifishal@picturemotion.com to host your own screening😊
Te felicito por ese gran aporte de proteger ese hermoso ecosistema👏👏👏👏👍💐💕
What a beautiful place. Tasmania should be proud..
Incredible film! My next film will include this film trailer at the beginning of my one.
Wow nice film, Love Tasie 😘
Nearly made me cry. It’s so sad to see that man’s greed can destroy such a pure landscape and such incredible native life
Amazing work and i will keep voting Greens because of great people protecting our beautiful country!!
“When a wren builds its nest, although the woods may be deep it uses no more than one branch.” - Zhuangzi
Coming from the mainland and visiting Tasmania and indeed the Tarkine over 4 separate visits, I moved to this jewel on the planet we call Tasmania for what is has to offer the world. Everyone deserves the right to earn a living, feed their family, feel the warmth of their own home and savor the spiritual connection they have with the place in which they live. Governments and the totally gutless, spineless individuals who are elected to apparently serve us have absolutely NO F**** INTEREST in supporting those who they were elected to support. ALL they give a crap about is their own self-interest, how long they can serve, how many jaunts they can scab from tax payers money, how much money they can earn by consistently lying and distorting facts to serve their own purposes. Politicians on whatever level, except for the very few like Bob Brown and others you can count on less than one hand, are the warrior who we cannot do without. Sustainable timber logging - WTF???? How can you call destroying forests that have taken 60 Million years to grow and replanting them with NEW trees sustainable??? People aren't elected to Parliament in any state to serve the people, they are there to serve THEMSELVES. Corruption, lies, manipulation and distortion of the facts, ignorance and complete disdain for expert opinion on matters such as climate change and dozens of other important issues that are FACTUAL, is the only thing that they will ever do whilst in parliament. Use of BIG WORDS, standing in front of crowds like they are some self-proclaimed GOD in their Armani suits makes me F***** sick. It took 60 Million plus years for Tasmania to evolve into a Microcosm of fauna and flora that is found nowhere else on the planet, yet replanting trees and substituting those that took 60 Millilon plus years to grow will keep things the same way they were - How fucking ignorant and stupid are these politicians? What happens when the earths climate changes forever and those of us who are still left alive due to the rampant constant changes already upon us sit back and say, "well maybe logging and the effect it had on climate change was real" - TOO LATE NOW PAL! The Tarkine is one of, if not the most special places on earth and it is impossible to impart this to those who have never been. Solution - VISIT EARTHS TRUE EUTOPIA and lavish in a place that will change your forever. Then return to whence it was you came, spread the word about the Tarkine and make these total SCUM that occupy our halls of power actually do for us, what it was that they were elected to do!!!!
This is very interesting. Takayna means "NOW" or "currently" in Punan (different from Penan), a dialect in Sarawak.
My values are compromised everyday as I endevour to live a joyful life while somehow providing for family in an industrial complex that seems to only profit from the use and abuse of nature. Thankful for your film.
Good Job!!
What a great film. Bobby, your no were near the end of your life.......only the good die young :)
Good luck and respect from Brazil.
"I just keep going no matter what." Thats the words I need to hear.
My heart was breaking seeing the fallen forest & the ancient trees being logged 💔 & just the thought of all the natural wildlife that would have died 😔 😢 & for what??? Toilet paper & cardboard boxes 😣 thank goodness the Local Aboriginal Community now has ownership of "some" of this amazing place on our beautiful Earth .. hopefully their management will continue to grow just like the magnificent trees! 🌳🌳 Thank goodness for those who are fighting the good fight! Thank you 💚💙💚
I love how that logger laughs as he says that it took 300 years for the tree to grow and 20 minutes to cut it down. Talk about cognitive dissonance.
Tori Peltier
That was actually disturbing.
Me, no I haven't really. But Patagonia has. And you can get a lot of that type of info from there website. I dare you to say that a good use of that old growth forest is its destruction - at an economic loss mind you, the more they log the more money they are loosing [subsidised by a state government that really can not afford it in Tasmania], and the end product is not some thing that is greatly needed or even of great beauty like fine furniture, no. For the most part it is wood chips. Oh, and I lived in the main town near by, this isn't an academic exercise for me. Not that my opinion is more important because of that than anyone else's.
Yeah my his comments made my blood run cold! 😣😨😵
@discorperted I find it so ironic that the original poster said, "talk about cognitive dissonance" and some rude douchebag (you) decided to chime in a display a profound level of exactly that.
@discorperted LMAO. Even if I had a "$400" Patagonia hoodie it most definitely wouldn't have a "severe" environmental cost. I mean, we are on a video talking about preservation of old growth forests and you are trolling everyone for wearing rain jackets. I don't even care about Patagonia the company, but I find it weird that you seem hellbent on spreading bullshit about it. Yvon might be a sociopath, but what does that make you? A psychopath, or just a fucking idiot? If you actually look at the facts, Patagonia does FAR more to reduce environmental impact than almost any other company. There is probably a level of green washing involved, and definitely it's all about building the brand and getting loyal customers, but you are picking the wrong battle to fight. If you actually cared about the environment, you wouldn't be battling people in CZcams comments about Patagonia. Just think about all of the plastic components, precious metals and electricity you and you're computer are using in order to be a pointless keyboard crusader. =O =O
Also, perhaps if you're so concerned about the environmental impact of rain jackets, you should come up with an effective non-petroleum waterproof alternative. In your stupid video of you cooking ribs, I happened to notice you have petroleum based fabric tent. You fucking earth raper!!!!!!!! Hahaha
love this
I was raised by a timber faller in the Pacific Noth West USA. I always told Dad we can get 10 times the paper from hemp. He was all for it. We just want jobs. We don't care if it is in the hemp field. It is the folks at the top who keep this insanity going.
So sad that the same spot this was filmed is now gone! How can this be permanently protected?
'onya Bobby Brown. Without you there wouldn't be much Tassie left. #tasmaniasvoice
I own two Patagonia tops, they're probably the best tops I own.
I grew intimately familiar with the Tarkine while studying abroad in Tasmania back in 2011. Sadly, much of it has been lost since then. This isn't a place that should be saved. Rather, it's a place that MUST be saved. I hope that clear, forward-thinking minds prevail.
Gratitudes for your bravery 🙏.
The question is, what is sustainable logging? Sustainable agriculture? We'll always be taking some untouched place, someone's native land, someone's livelihood or connection to their home if we want to support all of us. The reality is just that we need to take land. We always have, for all of those 200.000 years we've been a species. When we were few it wasn't a problem, the few bits of land we took were just insignificant to the earth. But now we've run out and we're turning our gaze towards these natural riches. What's the point of even trying to fight it when for every inch of forest saved, an acre is being cut down elsewhere?
For real, what can we do? What should we do? Should we aim to patch up the wounds while ten new ones appear for each one temporarily saved? Should we force an ideology of nature conversationism down people's throats who don't want it? Or should we take for granted that we'll be destroying other, modern cultural heritage in the process of saving the old? We can't keep going forward, making progress, without either excluding part of the people on earth, or destroying mother nature.
The question of nature conservation is not one of sentiment, about how it feels so good to be in a forest or how humans were made for living in nature. After all, we're humans and we can deal with change. It ends up being a question of philosophy. Should we prioritize keeping the human experience the way it is? Or should we aim to keep making progress, understand how nature works and aim for the stars? Should we value old over new? Should we value people who contribute a lot to society over those who contribute little?
I'm living in a world so far away from nature that everything I eat, everywhere I go and everything I do has been managed and processed. I'm not made for it, admittedly, but I've accepted the idea that this is something I need to adapt to. My food doesn't come from nature anymore, it actually does come from money. Food can be grown or made synthetically without having the need for nature. It all works within this system. And the best part is that it provides for everyone! You can even be happy in it, with the proper guidance. We can evolve as humans to make this our new future. In the process we'll lose nature. Or at least wild nature. But new things can grow from that too. What if we make a system that can keep supporting us for all eternity, until the sun swallows the earth? Wouldn't that be kinda great too?
Personally I've experienced my deepest, most profound moments in life whilst being in nature. It satisfies a yearning for freedom and adventure that's part of me, which I can't find within 'the system'. With the diversity and unpredictability of nature, you never know what's going to happen and we find that beautiful. But not everyone needs that. In fact, the big majority of people don't. I don't know what causes this difference between people but I know it's there.
I can't draw a conclusion out of any of this, but it's something everyone needs to think about. It's about humanity's long-term survival and everyone is involved in that, whether we want to or not. And I think this is the one question everyone should have an opinion about: should we aim for progress and destroy mother nature in the process, or should we aim for keeping our beautiful home intact for all other generations to enjoy like we still can? I honestly think we can't have both.
The real long term solution is to discourage people from breeding like they currently do.
Does anyone know what the sigil at the end of the film represents?
Stop the mining, stop the logging. This place is too special to lose. I love it there. It is like no other place on Earth. Tasmanians have one ultimate responsibility. Save the wilderness for everyone, for the future, for our children.
Amazing doco. We face the same threats in Bolivia. From Cattle Ranching,Soya,Palm oil, mining ,cocaine labs and more. The Forests of the Tarkine, The Amazon Rainforest,Gran Chaco,Congo ,Sumatra and Papua MUST BE SAVED !!!!!!!
Beautiful
we need to propose a solution to prevent the destruction. Wood has become a desired material for construction and as a result a source of income for many. The solution I present to all is air crete , and many other concrete products that out last all wood products . We have enought trash to build earthship habitats for the masses. The majority of the construction industry in the usa and many parts of the world is focused on the use of lumber. The focus needs to change to materials like brick, block, concrete, glass, metals, and other materials that out last wood.
My heart fall down when the threes cut off:(
Exquisite
Not until the curriculum changes in schools and documantries like this are shown on prime time TV only then will the situation improve..
I watched them clear cut the swamp behind my house even after they were given a stop work order every day for 2 weeks until the sheriff put multiple cars at the entrance of the logging road, but these guys were so devious that they entered the property from the county at the north end of it. What they didn't realize is that the sheriff had their equipment removed and that they were now in violation of a state stop work order because it was found that there were 5 endangered tortoises on the islands within the swamp as well as cypress trees which were covered by federal endangered species act. The loggers had no idea that the people who lived around the swamp were willing to go to great lengths to prevent them from destroying the only drainage eco system for the better part of the north end of the county. The developer figured they could go ahead with the project and ask for forgiveness after the fact. He was very wrong about the poorest ppl in the county not caring about the environment and ended up bankrupt over his stupidity. The damage had already been done but the county turned it into an eco-park where the kiddos get to go and see what a swamp eco system does over the course of a school year. It's a light footprint since most of the park is a boardwalk up on pilings where the trees were cut and a small observation area on the natural pond where they can observe the local river otters and birds galore on their southern migration route.
One can only hope that the greed of those in power at the moment will quickly be voted out of office and an eco friendly person voted into office that will force those who damaged the environment to fix the damage they've done. It's going to take every citizen to push those in power to fix it. Good luck y'all.
Everything about this place says “leave me be”
David Attenborough made a film in this Forrest. Surely that counts for something?
Stay close to nature!!
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Trees are protectors. They are strong and tall and provide shade when it is hot. They give us peace when there is conflict. Trees are life.
Here is the link for those that want to follow it at the end of the video. www.patagonia.com/new-localism/takayna.html
The same tragedy is taking place in Romania's wild forests of the Carpatian Mountains...
Have spent months crying. Crying as the fires tear through my country, as the wildlife is incinerated, as ecosystems are destroyed. As our shameful excuse of government sells us out to big corporations who rape and destroy our land, our lives. This broke my heart.
Please sign the petition after watching 😌
Humans are just awesome... 😞
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Selfish greedy loggers and govt.
No regard for this great Australian wilderness which deserves world heritage protection. I'm a concretor and stonemason and I believe in bush preservation.
My old pop used to selectively and carefully pick a little timber for milling from his land but these modern greedy loggers just rip the guts out of the country. Keep up the great work and let's save the tarkine 👍
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When The Tarkine is saved from logging, just don't lock it up and deny public access and enjoyment....
I don't think anyone is proposing for the area to be locked up [except of course the people who back the current forestry use, who are locking it up right now.]
No area in Tasmania is 'locked up' that was sold to people by the government that wanted support for logging & mining... Areas that are well protected are National Parks which you can enter for a nominal fee, Conservation Areas for no fee...no locking up, you are welcome to visit just practice Leave No Trace principles...
''Have you ever lived in a rural community with no jobs?" .Im glad they saw the other side, but yes its about making the industry in that area SUSTAINABLE, finding the middle ground.
Only a moron destroys his own home and that which sustains us all.
Only a moron would think its that one dimensional...its funny you mention home, some are doing those jobs to keep one! Of course more needs to be done to conserve the forests whilst also keeping a local economy standing.
I take your point that there needs to be jobs, I also take your point that things are not one dimensional. And I don't think the film portrayed it as such either. I actually spent my teenage years in the town near the forest, and the road to the area went past my house. It is a difficult situation because there are probably more jobs in tourism and land conservation than there is in forestry. Tasmanian forestry actually operates at a loss, subsidised by the State's tax payers. Again if the one spent was put into developing the area instead of reducing its overall worth there would likely be a better outcome. Tas. has seen a bit of a turn around in the 10 years or so, and much of that has to do with the natural environment of the island [and a new art museum in Hobart, the capital]. It is a tough situation, but more logging is not the answer IMO
@@ruary3243 like finding a job that doesn't destroy the earth maybe?
What can i do?!?! Im an isa certified arborist who is wondering how to help. Lmk
Kirk Uhler forestry can be done sustainably but just not logging old growth forests, what are you doing now ?
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Do the officials realize how vital the forrests are for travel?! Noone wants to visit an empty lot.
Takayna is beautiful is life I do not understand how they own something that never belonged to them
This is sad. Without oil there would be an even greater demand for wood.
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argh,
so crazy that even in the knowledge that the industry itself requires subsidy, the governments are so shortsighted so as not to even realize that they could spend that money paying people to monitor the forests health. All they are paying is the private business owner and their extreme profits. Governments HAVE to wake up to this around the world. We all have to help them to realize, as well as our fellow human
Roughly 11,382 people in Tasmania are involved in Ag, Fishing, and Forestry:
profile.id.com.au/australia/industries?WebID=150
Whatever the absolute number of people employed currently by the forestry industry, we must encourage the sustainable production of timber by rewarding and defining the industry's "best practices" (much like how Patagonia does within the outdoor apparel industry.) Instead of hating and villanizing, we must present a different path forward. By questioning the status quo in a pragmatic, respectful, and inclusive way, we may illicit real change.
For myself, the most impactful lesson from this engaging film leaves me with is this:
It is that it's the responsibility of current and future generations to build and design shared vision, sustainable communities and more environmentally conscious industries and jobs so that we may continue to live upon this harmonious planet, together as one human family.
Amazing telling of a complex cultural, societal, and environmental situation. Well done, Patagonia. Thank you for your humble leadership.
And?
Ever heard of sustainable forestry? Invented in 1713 A.D.
They make the point in this film that it isn't even the original type of flora that they plant afterwards. It destroys the eco system there. Yes they plant more trees again, but they are totally different trees and they are only going to cut them down again. What happens to the wildlife through all of this?
I pity those that can stand in a forest such as this and feel nothing.
It is a common theme in every country around the world, exploitation vs nature. I'm in Canada and it makes me so sad that politicians and the general public disrespect and are out of touch with life in our land.