The Battle for Suriname's Rainforest
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- čas přidán 31. 10. 2007
- Sell Off (2005): Deep in the jungles of South America, the culture of escaped slaves has been preserved for over three centuries. But their unique heritage is now being threatened by developers.
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The former Dutch colony of Suriname is home to the largest undisturbed expanse of tropical rainforest and the highest number of ethnic groups in the world. "You have the indigenous people, the bushnegroe cultures. It's a unique and wonderful mix that is not found anywhere else," explains Russel Mittermeier from Conservation International But with 70% of the population living below the poverty line, the government is considering selling forest land to developers. "Our government has put our forest out for sale," laments resident Cornelly Olivera. But indigenous people see themselves as the legal owners of the forests and are determined to fight all developments.
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Please don't kill the trees. Please leave those people alone!
Thank you
The Trees bringing water and Oxygen.
@@annemikestuurland1082 so what climet change is coming and we dont feel it a bit but u willl😉
I have my roots there and I hope this amazing country will sty untouched by those damn woodhunters. As soon as I have the money I'll visit it. I am proud to that my ancesters have lived on this piece of paradise
I am a Surinamese and also from a village. I was crying by watching this. So beautiful and true. I never saw this and i'm glad my friend told me about it. This make me feel more and love my country more and want to do something. Now i have to find out what i'm gonna do and where to start.
SexyDevine are you on instagram?, I am a african American trying to learn more about your culture..
SexyDevine so what did u do? 9 years later.... did u realize your plan?
@@resilience4lyfe331 it's been 12 years, I'm curious also and happy to help if you haven't
@@TheSomaliHorizon same
This country is amazing, the nature, the people, the music
I'm proud to be from Suriname
preserve mama Surinam...
I truly hope that Suriname people kick their corrupt government out and conserve the beautiful forests that are truly the property of future generations,....for the present, its only on loan,.....like Tasunke Witko said, 'We can't sell our Mother the Earth, We are a part of our Mother Earth, it belongs to our wildlife brothers and to our grandchildren'.
Do you wonder why there are so many Diseaases is the MessUp of Nature.
@@annemikestuurland1082 There are so many Diseases afflicting humanity because....People break the natural laws!
great documentary just love Journey man Pictures. Also love the bush interior Africans Maroontas
Very interesting information there. The people must know that the fight continues. Land is important and both the Maroons and the Amerindians know this. Do not be deceived by the greed of colonial oppressors distorting the ambitions of local politicians. Unite, unite and fight for what is your rights!
Tackielemkwa KunZungo
Evil Greedy big Companies!
Also the government
These people never escaped from their slave Masters they was running away to not become slaves they was familiar with the jungles because their ancestors lived there over 140 million years ago when South America in Africa was connected as one continent
Its the Avatar Story all over again. I know where they got their story. Dam shame, they know they do wrong, but they don't stop it.
Suriname had veel welvarender kunnen worden all vandaag als Nederland zich niet had mee bemoeit, Harde feiten maar waar!..
Interesting story 👍
" Don't remove the old land marks ".
Meaning respect boundaries, treaties, of the ancients.
Bible.
Ik ben zelfs Surinaams en ik vind het zo erg wat er gebeurd. Ons land is zo rijk aan grondstoffen en waarom waarom waarom waarderen we het niet en investeren wij het op de juiste manier en geven wij het als het ware gratis weg aan de buitenlanders??? Suriname zou nu een zeer welvarend land moeten zijn, maar nee...pff krijg er hoofdpijn van als ik er aan denk
13:40 love it
Im so proud to see this information about my country how those people in the government levels croup.
Hi im coming to suriname can u help i wnna start my american dream there
Klopt, ik geef je gelijk! ;-)
Who's watching in 2020? What is the update on this?
Still a corrupt government, still a threat for its citizens
im surinamese and live in brooklyn NY
Then youre living in the destroyer of the World country , greed hate war crime and segregration good luck overthere cause you left a garden of beauty Called Surinam !
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good job on not being racist bro, but i'm surinamese myself, it is a damn shame what is happening there right know
Refusing and resisting to be tortured, you become wild, maroon!!!!! Helas my God!!! How long???
so true.. and i hope you guys succeed and dont end up like my country haiti in which we destroyed 98% of our forest and now and now reeping from the consequences of our actions
I am from Guyana 🇬🇾; we had a large population of stray dogs 🐕 but then the Chinese came and now stray dogs are extinct
Paul Anthony lmao
Paul ah can't stop lmfao 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yes we do, And some of us even live in The Netherlands - Including myself..
@Nurse Joy Suriname is a mixed bag of cultures. are you African Surinamese?, Indian?, Chinese or native?.
How can we help them, no environmental attorneys here, anybody know someone in Washington D.C. political arena, please let’s help this people and send the greedy bastards back to their dungeons
traducir este video al español please
they speak 3 separate languages or the language itself is a mix of the 3..also what is their culture like? can the fall within the caribbean/west indian or an off shore european/african state???
If only they can hold onto all this.
yes but then it wasnt that big only like 6-7 blocks so that was a good trade think of it a whole countrie for a really small amount of land
Isaid the same thing! those big pretty eyes
PALM PLANTATIONS IS DESERT
The countries of the Americas need to wisen up, foreign investment for resources isn’t worth losing your identity over. I’m Caribbean my families islands are just over the water, in case someone gets ahead of themselves. Anyway, our countries are beautiful we shouldn’t be that poor. Make money, but don’t destroy the land. Cover every inch of land in legal boundaries, and make these outsiders come with respect.
Maroons hebben een mooie en natuurvriendelijke levenswijze. Surinaamse natuur moet hoe dan ook worden behouden
can you elaborate whats going on in suriname as im visiting this year im jamaican and love the culture of suriname and its culture. i wanna live there. I dont like what these chinese companies are doing if you take you must plant anotther two trees to compensate.
anto walk to
The black Suriname's trace thier root from Ghana and Benin in West Africa.They kept their culture up till date and some of them have Ghanaian names like Kofi,Kwaku, Kwami and Owusu.Some believe to have come from the Ashanti in Ghana so they also have kente cloth and ahenema chawchaw.Iam giong there i was in Guyana 2012.
0:33 dollbaby
Deuteronomy 28:15, 43 & 44
15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
Yep, the international swarm of locusts have landed; environmental disaster lurks around the corner. Stand your ground ppl! Bless
Gaia's fury is already raging....
My country Suriname
omdat ze niet beter weten heb ik het gevoel. tis wel jammer
are they speaking dutch??
Yup, their national language.
Sorry this reply came 8 years late...
Realy you have never seen a black mexican or afro mexican in mexico wow i know a few and i live in the UK and caribbean. YEs your beautiful country has many many different ethnic groups.
Wilt uw zeggen dat de Canadees goud operatie "een voetje naar voren" is?
put a chinese anywhere on earth they soon change every life , money is no. 1 for them soon for all follow....
True indeed,but i think you mean 2 billion in 2050 in Afrika.
Then there are already 300 million Afrocaribean,afro-latinos,afro-american and all over the diaspora like polynesian islands etc.
In 2050 that number will be close to 700 million
Be careful!
2018??????????
us, the neighbors don't know anything about the guyanas... but i'd love to visit them all, even if they seem so distant to our latin culture, but maybe that's part of the magic. at school, we always learned that they were dangerous and wild places...so basically we were told not to go there ever, but i bet's not like that at all. colombia's not wild or as dangerous as most of the ppl say it is. so... they should promote tourism!!! :(
Evil is the destruction of this sacred place ...and palm oil is death poison
Yeah they just go to the other countries for work opportunities, success, less crime, more fun, and beautiful women. But Guyana is cool too i suppose.
a good documentry I would like to watch, however the video quality is unbearable
I mean it is 16 years old
what the hell are are talking about the dutch were the most gruesome when it came to slavery, Apartied in South Africa, Genocide in Rawanda, and the deadliest war since World War II in the Congo were because of the Dutch.
Dutch had nothing to do with Ruanda nor with the Congo that was Belgium you ignorant.
I don't really understand what you mean.. but Africa has been a nation of struggle long before any colonists came there, as was the entire world. the relative peace we know during our lifetimes is quite unique to the world.
Since when did Belgium and the Netherlands become one country?
Rwanda where Belgians for the rest youre true .
OH...LETS SAVE THE ECO SENSITIVE & NATURALLY BEAUTIFUL RAIN FORESTS. ECO-TOURISM WILL BRING THEM GOOD INCOME & OUR NATURE WILL BE PRESERVED. BINGO!! THESE AMAZON RAIN FORESTS ARE VERY PRECIOUS, LOTS OF DIFFERENT SPECIES & NATURALLY DIVERSE ECO SPHERE.
U could tell we all came from da same continent but u could also identify a nation by their dance
Battle!? Game!? Style!?
If this was a sell off, who got paid and where did the money go?????
Yes but this is not the city shwijnits a wild busch one , its just familie of pork and not realy pork.
Vrijestem, I agree with the fact that Suriname has played into the hands of corruption on multiple fronts. I don't know if I could label Ventiaan as a Marxist though. I do think however that the government needs radical restructuring and anti-corruption steps to be taken. I would like to correspond with you more on this topic and understand why you mentioned Marxism. I am by no means a Marxist but I have some socialist ideals regarding socio-political structure that I feel work.
Surinam is not under dutch goverment right?? thats what they said in this video
What language they speak in Suriname?
National language is Dutch.
language they speak the most are dutch and sranan
Dutch is oficial language but sranantongo (english based creole) is the more used. Ameridians people use their natives languages. Maroons speak nenguetongo (english based creole) or saamakatongo (english and portuguese based creole). People from India speak sarnami and indonesian descendents speak javanese.
Ur mum
Money is the root of all evil. And humans come next.
No. The love of money is.
being poor is a BLISS!
Suriname💎
what are you talking about all af those things happened because of the dutch
Apartied began under dutch rule and continued during the british rule but the dutch started it
it's apartheid, start with the facts.
IT KAN NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIET!!! xD
Love that guy.
GOd give ME strenght so I can save these people.
Please God Almighty! If you are out there hear me out!
I will create school , hospital and even Homes for the poor!
Thats my country
¡ Buenas tardes ! Ustedes deberían de darles clases de orientación a ésas gentes qué son muy brutas y sucias . 🌍
who were the ones who divided the nation by two tribes because i was pretty sure it was belgium and thats why there was a genocide to begin with
and now eastern countries
Oiseaux111: Afrika thanks you whites very much for all the aid you have been giving for the last 400 years :=)))
Ijaw people taken from Southern Nigeria
Leave these people alone. Log your own lands.
Where are the cannibal birds ? The ones that bite you when they smell blood ?
Wtf..
Her lawyers should step in quickly, like in Australia
Nothing in creation is ugly.
Taking gold from their lands
NO!, we need to move forward not backwards..
The people know that. The slavery past still hunts people, and that keeps them stuck in progressing forwards.
Poverty is very present here!.
no its not a scary place if you dont speak the language you d have a problem with communicating.. if you can speak dutch - surinam you'll find your way around ... thats my countruyy :D
Voor allemaal weg jagen sta ik, niemand is baas of eigenaar van land
South Africa was a dutch colony and last time i checked one of the the two largest regions of belgum is DUTCH... thats why inlcuded belgium colonies as dutch so get your facts striaght before you come with the name calling because it just makes your self look dumb.
Wonder what the relationship was between the Indians and the Maroons
why do you say that? you think bush was a good leader? it doesn't have to do with color man.
and i think it was good to give them indipendice. they deserve it, it just went wrong and they should learn from they're mistakes
3 billion Asians there population is starting to decline.
2050 African diaspora reaches over 190-200 million.
Not including Afro-Arabs(?), Afro Mexicans(2million), & Afro Indians from india(150,000)...
Eyoo faka
2020?
Suriname close your doors omg why are we so inviting we must be like the Asians isolated
Watch im go back and claim my country
Wich country if i may ask
TheDave 020 SURINAM💡
@@signedaleo1263 and why are you anti dutch?
Lol just a nickname . That describes me im antisociaal and i speak ducth
@@signedaleo1263 lol😂
@nacek4444 karma on ur thoughts...
We are not Africans!!! We are Hebrews. Period!!! Shalom
Jews in Suriname !!!!what a joke
@@ayazahmed-ky4eg Jews exist in Suriname
@@ayazahmed-ky4eg lol it's not a joke.
@@letsplayfangames7037 .
@@ayazahmed-ky4eg don't play yrself
Y'all mean my enslaved african people. They are human beings not slaves.😭😢😢😭😭
The Maroons are the Moors the true indigenous Americans found on these lands. We Moors are no longer allowing Europeans to tell their version of our ancestors history misrepresenting the facts. When Europeans first set foot on our land they found us already there. We resisted and fought and retreat into the deep jungle. Wild slaves that escape...lies!
Thank you. We were already here. Columbus and others documented who they saw when they crossed the Atlantic. He even used African navigators who new the terrain because it was normal travel and trade routes between both sides of the Atlantic for millennials.
You are not from any of the maroon tribes in Suriname and you don't speak their language nor know anything about their culture, so please don't try to speak for them...they know their roots and are very proud of their direct connection to the motherland
@@proverbalizer thank you, muuroons today are a lost nation due to being inundated by colonization and from curriculum programing of the colonial education systems and institutions that they left behind. While I can only speak for muuroons of Guyana, ( Essiquibo, Berbice and Demerara ) which were previously under Dutch and British colonial conquest I would certainly wish to extend our invitation to you our muuroon brethren of Suriname and French Paramaribo. It is unfortunate that we in Guiana has lost our muuroon native tongue due to the brutal genocide of colonial war on our ancestors but we should not let language seperate us muuroons by wherever we are on ancestral lands but it should endeavor to unite us more than ever today as Guiana muuroons seek to become a nation United under one God.
this my country nigaah
Bottomline, prophecy FULFILLED.
In case u might wonder WHO put us in slavery in the 1st place for being DISOBEDIENT to YHWH's Law,
Deut. 28:68 And YHWH shall bring thee into Egypt again WITH SHIPS, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
Israel would go back into SLAVERY, but this time with SHIPS, to be SOLD AS SLAVES & no1 would be able to free (buy) us
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some of black surinam are nigeria
Azubuike Shedrack indeed naija
90% of Suriname is forest.
Journeymanpictures your news has no credibility! Bite me!
Guyana,Suriname,Venezuela and french giuna where all once land...soo if you see guyana's flag in suriname and venezuela its because the people believe they belong to Our great Guyana....
Oh nooooooooo!!!!....do they now?? 😩😩
What the heck are you talking about