All language subtitles for Paradise.Preserved.Series.1.2of5.Ecuador.Hope.for.the.Cloud.Forests.1080p.HDTV.x264.AAC.MVGroup.org.eng

(birds chirping)
(light majestic music)

Landscapes of bewitching beauty.

Unique.
(ethereal singing)

Species rich.

Exemplary.

Because something extraordinary

is happening here.

These natural habitats remain in tact

only because humans use and shape them.

A new pact with nature.
(men yelling)

(howling)

(birds chirping)
(ethereal music)

Where sky, mountains, clouds and forest become one,

life flourishes.

(steady instrumental music)
(birds humming)

Ecuador's cloud forests are a paradise for birds.

Amphibians.

And mammals.

But for centuries now,

humans have been clearing the mountain forests

of the Andes.

(animals calling)

They've had to give way to cattle pastures and roads.

(cars honking)
(sirens wailing)

Ecuador's population is growing year by year.

And pushing nature further and further back.

Inhabitants and conservationists

are looking for a way to preserve the forest.

And at the same time, to profit from it.

(ethereal singing)
(bright instrumental music)

Is it possible to save the last of the cloud forests?

(birds chirping)

(steady instrumental music)

(water crashing)

There's water here in abundance.

(birds chirping)

The Western side of the Andes in Ecuador

is one of the world's rainiest regions.

(rain pattering)

It's an extreme climate,

to which the flora and fauna have adapted.

Hundreds of tree varieties

compete for space on the steep slopes.

On their trunks and branches,

they bear hanging gardens,

bromeliads and other plants

that draw water and nutrients from the air.

(steady instrumental music)

(leaves rustling)

The plant world is a feast

laid out for countless animals.

Capuchin monkeys tuck into leaves and fruit.

And bizarre predators make rich pickings.

(hissing)

(chirping)

Whether centipedes,

frogs,

or birds,

hardly any habitat feeds such a variety of species,

as the primeval forests of the Andes.

There's many a small paradise

usually enveloped in mist.

The rain clouds, which move in from the Pacific Ocean,

get caught in the mountains.

As around the town of Mindo.

The hills here are still green and full of trees.

In Ecuador, that's the exception.

So why is there still so much in tact

cloud forest around Mindo?

(upbeat music)

Mindo's natural world attracts

a very special species.

Tourists.

Looking for jungle adventures.

The local inhabitants have grasped this

as an opportunity.

Henrry Patino is a small scale entrepreneur.

He owns a simple lodging house in the town.

He offers his guests a very special thrill.

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Riding the rapids on the River Mindo.

♪ Yeah ♪

(water splashing)

It's not only Henrry Patino

who benefits from the tourists,

but his crew as well.

Youngsters from the village

earn themselves a little

when they accompany the visitors

safely down the river.

(water splashing)
(laughing)

This mixture of nature and action

goes down well with a lot of younger tourists.

Mindo long since stopped being

a sleepy Andean village.

(dog barking)

Year in, year out,

this place attracts over 50,000 tourists

from Ecuador and the rest of the world.

In recent years, it's grown,

from a village into a small town.

Mindo's Mariposario, the butterfly garden,

offers close-up encounters with marvelous creatures.

The staff here breed 25 varieties of butterfly,

including the most colorful and shimmering species

of this region.

From caterpillar to butterfly,

tourists can experience the fluttering diversity

of the tropical beauties.

(speaking in foreign language)

Mindo has learned

to turn tropical nature

into a lucrative business model.

(speaking in foreign language)

In this community,

90% of the people live from tourism.

Directly or indirectly,

it's an important economic factor.

Shops, restaurants, hotels,

and the nature guides.

It's all very positive for us.

Many tourists come here, above all,

for our world famous Mindo Nambio Forest Reserve.

(upbeat instrumental music)

This community has been

protecting its cloud forest on its own initiative

for over 30 years.

And making a good living from it.

That makes Mindo a trailblazer in Ecuador.

(birds chirping)

The great variety of plant life

attracts flying gemstones.

Hummingbirds are truly airborne acrobats.

They hover like mini helicopters.

They're the only birds

who can even fly backwards.

(birds chirping)

Hummingbirds are constantly

on the lookout for flowers.

(bird humming)

That's where the birds tank up on their fuel.

Sweet nectar.

There are over 20 varieties of hummingbird

in Mindo alone.

Altogether, over 400 species of bird

live in the town's vicinity.

A world record.

Mindo's example shows that mankind and nature

need not be in opposition to each other.

Forest conservation benefits

not only the hummingbirds and other animals,

but the communities human population

of over 2,000 as well.

(birds chirping)
(steady instrumental music)

But what functions so well in Mindo

is the exception.

Elsewhere, things usually look different.

Nearly everywhere in Ecuador,

the forests are being cleared for agriculture.

The trees have to make way for fields and pasture land.

Over 90% of the cloud forests

have already been destroyed in this way.

The loss of the forests endangers thousands

of animal and plant species.

And the soil is getting washed away.

Just 50 kilometers away from Mindo

lies Toachi Valley.

As nearly everywhere else in the Andes,

agriculture is predominant here.

And the few remaining forests

are getting smaller and smaller.

(water rushing)

(camera shutter clicking)

When the Italian Giovanni Onore

first visited the valley over 30 years ago,

this was all untouched forest,

full of animals.

At the time, Onore was a professor of biology

in Ecuador's capitol, Quito.

And he fell in love at first sight

with Toachi Valley.

(speaking in foreign language)

It's a long time ago, back in 1980,

that I came upon virtually intact jungle here.

My paradise.

One day, a friend came to visit, a beekeeper.

He wanted to see the forest.

So off we went,

and marveled at the birds,

the orchids, and the butterflies.

Then suddenly, we heard a chainsaw.

Someone was felling trees.

My friend asked, "Why are they cutting them down?"

The answer is, poor people fell the trees to survive.

To make way for pastures for cattle.

And what can be done about it?

Nothing.

(steady music)

But nevertheless,

Onore was determined to do something.

Apart from being a biologist,

the Italian is also a Catholic churchman.

As a monk and missionary,

he keeps coming back to the region.

He's fully aware that the people on the land

need to make a living.

Most of the people who live in the valley are farmers.

Many of them see land on which trees are growing

with no cattle grazing as worthless.

Giovanni Onore wants to help them

find a way out of the dilemma.

Can agriculture and nature exist side by side

in the Toachi Valley region?

(rooster cawing)

(door slamming)
(speaking in foreign language)

In the mountains,

Giovanni is meeting his old friend, Cesar Tapia.

Cesar is a farmer, like everybody else here.

He's also Onore's chief ally in the region.

(light suspenseful music)
(cattle mooing)

At one time, Cesar also cut down

more and more trees for more and more pasturage.

But over the years,

he's gradually become a kindred spirit

for Giovanni Onore.

Because he also harbored a love of nature,

of the plants, and of the multiplicity

of animals in the forests.

He wasn't happy to see them all disappearing.

(animals calling)

(chattering in foreign language)

The two friends made a pact.

The missionary supported Cesar and his family,

and arranged for the education of his nine children.

In return, Cesar promised to help Giovanni.

Together, they wanted to save the forest.

Or what was left of it.

But would it be possible to recruit

other local farmers for their dream?

Cesar opened doors for his friend

to meet the people of the area.

Today they are visiting a small sugar factory.

Most of the families here

earn just a few hundred dollars a year

from sugar, vegetables, and milk.

(speaking in foreign language)

Most just manage to scrape by.

In the large vats,

the farmers boil down the juice of the sugarcane.

The result is the panela,

brown cane sugar.

But the work is hard and doesn't pay much.

For most of the farmers, though,

nature conservation seems like

the distant notion of rich people in the city.

(rooster cawing)

But many farmers could suddenly imagine

doing a deal with Giovanni,

and selling him stretches of land

which yield particularly low returns.

(light music)

Bits of land always remain unused.

Especially on steep slopes,

Giovanni Onore found remnants

of the old cloud forests.

He collected money among friends in Europe,

and bought parcels of land like this

from the farmers.

(speaking in foreign language)

At the time, buying land was the only way,

but it was a nightmare.

I had to go to the surveyor's office,

the lawyer, the notary.

Finally, I bought the first bit.

I was applauded,

and received further donations.

And I bought more land.

Again, I had the runaround with the authorities.

All the red tape and bureaucracy.

That's how it went on and on.

The forest grew and grew,

and in the end, I fell in love with it.

(light instrumental music)

Piece by piece,

Giovanni Onore managed over decades

to put together a private conservation area.

More than 1,500 hectares of land,

for leaf cutter ants, and many other species.

The biologist named his forest

the Otonga Reserve,

after a giant earthworm that lives here.

A foundation of the same name

became the official owner of the reserve.

Giovanni made Cesar his administrator.

Don Cesar now oversees and protects

this natural paradise.

He plants trees on the perch's pasturage.

He lays down paths,

thereby opening up the forest

for biologist Giovanni Onore.

But Giovanni the missionary

is not yet satisfied.

He wants not only to save the forest,

but also to change attitudes towards it.

He wants to infect the locals

with his love of nature.

(speaking in foreign language)

Snakes are not necessarily dangerous

because not every species is poisonous.

But that's never interested many local inhabitants

who just killed every snake

that crossed their path.

(speaking in foreign language)

This one is not poisonous.

It's completely harmless.

It can't even really bite.

It's teeth are tiny.

But he didn't just want people

to look after snakes,

but to stop hunting in the protected forest.

(speaking in foreign language)

That wasn't easy for me.

The people were used to hunting wild bore.

Birds and armadillos.

And now they were expected to give it up.

You are a nasty person, they told me.

It wasn't nastiness,

but love of nature that motivated

Cesar and Giovanni.

But that didn't really convince the locals.

Many of them couldn't see what use

the reserve was to them.

However fascinated the two were

by the remarkable way in which

many species had adapted to the rainforest,

they had to think up a new plan for the locals.

The conservation project had to be good,

not only for the wildlife,

but for the people in the Toachi Valley as well.

(Giovanni speaking in foreign language)

The cloud forest

had to produce benefits for its neighbors.

That became increasingly clear.

Preferably work and an income.

If that didn't happen,

the project had no future.

(leaves rustling)

(speaking in foreign language)

You can buy anything with money.

That's easy.

But changing people's hearts

is the hardest thing of all.

(driving instrumental music)
(traffic sounding)

Whether Giovanni the monk

was to prove successful

depended less on help from Heaven above

than on people seeing sense

in nature protection throughout the country.

His reserve is about two hours by car

from the capitol Quito.

Here too, where now the world's highest

lying capitol is expanding,

used to be dense cloud forests.

It's hard to believe that this was once

a wild, natural landscape,

where large predators used to hunt.

But this is still the case

right on Quito's doorstep.

Just 30 kilometers away,

along a narrow path at an altitude of 2,800 meters,

lies the small village of Yunguilla.

(speaking in foreign language)

Today, the villagers are holding

a crisis meeting.

Ecologist Santiago Molina has come from Quito

because there's a problem with an animal inhabitant

of the district.

A predator totally unexpected

so close to a major city

is causing upset in Yunguilla.

(dog barking)

(speaking in foreign language)

The men show Santiago Molina

a shaky cell phone video.

(speaking in foreign language)

A large Andes bear

is surprised in the process of killing a cow.

(speaking in foreign language)

An unpleasant surprise for Santiago Molina,

because the predator is an old acquaintance.

A bear called Yumbo.

(speaking in foreign language)

Yumbo is a bear that was found close by.

Abandoned by his mother.

It was obvious that if we didn't rescue him,

he would die.

He was in a bad way,

with fly eggs under his skin,

which showed that his mother

had left him some days earlier.

So we decided to rescue him,

in order to release him again later on

here in Yunguilla.

(light music)

He stayed in a nursery for two years.

And in 2015, we took him back

to the place where we found him.

He's the first bear to be

successfully released back into the wild in Ecuador.

Yumbo's return to Yunguilla

was a media event locally.

It took a lot of manpower to lift the by then

fully grown bear into a large wooden crate.

Yumbo's last stage in captivity.

But how would the other bears in the area

react to Yumbo's return?

(speaking in foreign language)

In this case, the other bears accepted him,

because he was family.

Oh, I know you.

So, for two years, everything went well.

Yumbo survived together with the other bears.

But then, four months ago,

he found a dead cow nearby.

(light melancholy music)

Cows sometimes stumble

in the steep meadows.

Some fall and are so badly injured that they die.

The cadaver is then an easy target

for bears like Yumbo.

Once they have a taste for the meat,

some move on to attack living cows.

Understandably, that doesn't please

the Yunguilla farmers.

But in the meantime,
(rooster crowing)

the villagers have come to see

that they too can profit from the bears.

(speaking in foreign language)

Bears can also offer prospects for tourism.

Visitors can see the animals here,

living in their natural environment.

To go bear watching,

people need to know how many bears there are,

and where they are most likely to be found.

So again and again,

Molina joins guides from Yunguilla

on short expeditions.

(speaking in foreign language)

But it's not easy to locate

bears in the wild.
(engine rumbling)

(light instrumental music)

The search takes Molina

and his guide Edison deeper

and deeper into the forest.

(leaves rustling)
(blade hacking)

But today, they don't see any.

The trek isn't wasted, though.

Modern technology comes to the rescue.

Molina and Edison have laid

automatic photo and film traps everywhere.

They're triggered by the smallest movement.

And capture whatever's in front of the lens.

There are a lot of deer around Yunguilla.

And even pumas.

Again and again, the cameras capture Andes bears as well.

(speaking in foreign language)

Because of their distinctive marking,

they're also known as spectacled bears.

Even if some don't have spectacles at all.

Small predatory cats also appear

in front of the camera.

Ocelots.

And time after time, pumas.

It was a surprise for the biologists

just how many large predators go hunting

so close to humans.

The conservationists attract the animals

to their camera traps with a vanilla scent.

Some bears love the perfume so much

that they can't get enough of the bait.

The biologists were able to identify

over 60 bears.

(speaking in foreign language)

For us scientists,

and also for the people of Yunguilla,

it's good to know that we have bears here.

It's an attraction that helps people get to know the area,

and the forest.

If they're very lucky, they see a bear.

If not, they can see one from the camera traps.

The spectacled bear is the only bear

in South America.

Everybody will be happy to see an Andes bear.

Or at least to be there, where the bears live.

(light instrumental music)

The bears and the beauties of nature

have already changed life in Yunguilla.

The locals rent rooms to tourists.

And would like to see a lot more visitors.

But things have to develop at a gentle pace.

And benefit as many villagers as possible.

This vegetable garden, for example,

is part of the sustainable tourism concept of the village.

Carrots and other vegetables

are processed on the spot.

In the new restaurant

that all the villagers have built together.

The number of tourists coming to Yunguilla

is still manageable.

Most are on day trips from Quito.

Around 5,000 visitors a year

are already providing the people of Yunguilla

with a bigger income than farming.

(metal scraping)

Young women from the community

use the milk from the cows

to make queso de Yunguilla.

The villages own cheese dairy is a thriving business,

because the tourists now also buy the local products.

(speaking in foreign language)
(water pattering)

The locals keep coming up

with new ideas.

Some of the women process many papayas,

and other fruit into jam.

A popular souvenir made in Yunguilla.

(speaking in foreign language)

All of us in the community feel pride.

When someone asks, where are you from?

We reply, I live in Yunguilla,

where we conduct village tourism,

where we protect nature,

and where we improve peoples quality of life.

That's why I believe everyone

who lives here in Yunguilla

and works on the project

is very proud of what we're doing here.

The initial successes

of sustainable tourism are enabling Yunguilla

to become ever more involved in conservation.

Hardly anyone is still felling trees.

Rather, Yunguilla is reforesting the forest.

The seedlings for this are grown

in the village tree nursery.

Santiago Molina is happy to get hands on

when plants are involved.

It's the community that's important

for most of the locals.

So there's never a shortage of helping hands.

The long term plan is to turn the pastures

where the cows still graze today

back into a cloud forest.

Biologists used to think it was impossible

to bring the forest back,

but it can be done if people lend a hand.

But it's not enough simply to wait for the trees

to spread themselves.

The first trees have to be painstakingly planted out.

It's exclusively indigenous species

that get this startup support.

When they're bigger,

other seeds brought in by birds and bats

can germinate in their shadow.

For that to happen on this meadow

will take a few years yet.

(light instrumental music)

In the last 20 years,

Yunguilla has reforested 3,000 hectares of land.

What looks like virgin jungle

is in fact recreated forest.

Not yet as species-rich as a primal cloud forest,

but already pumas and bears are hunting here again.

Santiago Molina is pleased

with developments to date.

His dream is that other communities

will follow Yunguilla's example,

so that isolated areas of forest

will grow together again

into a large scale habitat for the bears.

This would guarantee the long term survival

of the small bear population

living so close to the major city of Quito.

When the fruits of a species

of wild avocado ripen,

it's the best time for biologists and tourists

to observe Andes bears in the wild.

They climb the trees to get

to the small avocados.

(leaves rustling)

Sometimes a branch has to make way.

(bear grumbling)

And then the feast is there for the taking.

(bear panting)

Santiago Molina and the village of Yunguilla

have already done a lot

towards protecting the Andes bears.

But there are other animals

which people can't help on their own.

(camera shutter clicking)

(upbeat instrumental music)

In Quito, Ecuador's capitol,

specialists are using modern methods

in a bid to save a whole group of animals

threatened with gradual extinction.

(dog barking)

(door slamming)

Morely Reid from Britain

is an expert on lizards, snakes, newts, and frogs.

He's returning today from an expedition

to remote cloud forests.

He'll be presenting his findings

to the director of the Jambatu Frog Research Center.

Ecuador is a paradise for amphibians.

Nowhere else is home to as many different species.

But this diversity is under threat.

Leaf by leaf,

walking very slowly up the river.

And we spent two more nights looking for--

Luis Coloma founded

the Jambatu Center because many species of frog

are facing extinction.

Mysterious fungal diseases

are decimating countless amphibian species worldwide.

Sadly, in Ecuador's forests, too.

The animals are dying,

even in places where their habitat

still seems fully intact.

During a trip, but managed to get

a number of really interesting ones

after we collected it.

So I had that likely arrived

at about 1:00 in the morning.

I didn't get much sleep.
Coloma wants

to research the causes of the frog deaths.

And save the endangered species of amphibian.

Some frogs have become so rare

that biologists have to spend a long time

looking for the last of their species.

Some whistling notes as well.

(speaking in foreign language)

We have built an intensive care unit for frogs.

In the laboratory, we're trying to breed

and rescue varieties facing extinction.

We'll then return them to the wild.

Once we've understood the factors

that are threatening them.

(driving instrumental music)

With his research center,

Luis Coloma has created a Noah's Ark

for some of the rarest

and most beautiful of Ecuador's frogs.

(frogs chirping)

But researching and rescuing amphibians costs money,

and in Ecuador, there's hardly any public research funding.

To become independent of government funds,

Coloma set up the Wikiri Company.

It's business concept is new,

and not without controversy.

The company and the research center

share not only the same premises,

but also the same know-how.

They breed frogs.

The difference is that Wikiri

sells the amphibians to enthusiasts

all over the world.

That's legal, as long as the animals

are born here in the laboratory.

Equipped with official certificates,

the frogs are air freighted to their new owners.

This is also intended to undermine

international trafficking by smugglers.

(speaking in foreign language)

These people come to Ecuador

and pay locals a pittance to collect frogs.

Then, they smuggle the animals in their luggage

to supply the international markets.

This further decimates the populations,

and not a penny stays in Ecuador.

All the money flows to Europe,

and other markets abroad.

So the firm is dealing in frogs

in order to protect frogs.

This works because affluent frog fans

pay up to 600 Euros for rare amphibians.

It can take years to breed a species successfully.

That makes the animals relatively expensive.

(frogs chirping)

But a share of the profits, finances,

Luis Coloma's research center.

Another part is used to buy and conserve

forest areas in Ecuador

that are especially in need of protection.

The trade in frogs also supports

the work of biologist and monk Giovanni Onore.

(saw buzzing)

Giovanni Onore is still looking for ways

to protect his Otonga Reserve long term.

But the people of the region

also need to profit from his cloud forest.

So Giovanni is counting on paying guests.

Helped by Italo, the son of his business director Cesar,

he's building a small guest house.

Giovanni employs only local workers.

(saw buzzing)

He has a very special clientele in mind

for his guest house.

He hopes to let the 30 rooms to students and scientists

from home and abroad.

Their field of research would then be

directly on the hotel's doorstep.

(speaking in foreign language)

The hotel and its guests

will yield enough to safeguard the forest.

We need a watchman,

someone to keep the paths open,

someone to make sure the trees aren't felled.

Someone to receive the guests.

That creates jobs,

and at the same time, produces a profit

to conserve the jungle.

(upbeat instrumental music)
(birds chirping)

Even before the last finishing touches

are made on Onore's jungle hotel,

the first guest registers.

An old acquaintance.

Morely Reid of the Jambatu Frog Center

is visiting the reserve on one of his expeditions.

Morely is looking for a species of frog

that used to be common in this area,

but today is increasingly rare.

(chattering in foreign language)

The best chances of encountering

this very special animal are along small streams

where it's very wet.

(speaking in foreign language)

The scientist always carries

a recording device to capture

the typical croaking of all the different frogs.

A song which the biologist doesn't recognize

would indicate a new species still un-described.

Until it's dark and the objects of study become active,

the small group of researchers presses on

into the forest.

On the way, the three of them make further discoveries.

Morely has already noted over 200 species of snake.

In the whole of Europe,

there are just 50 species.

(chattering in foreign language)

Giovanni Onore is fascinated

by the emerald green anolis lizards.

Which hunt on leaves.

How angry it is.

(speaking in foreign language)

The lizard is bagged

for closer examination later.

(water splashing)
(chatting in foreign language)

(birds chirping)

(light music)
(animals chirping)

As darkness falls,

the frog concert begins.

Morely is keyed up about finding

what he's looking for.

The biologists push ever further

into the undergrowth.

(speaking in foreign language)

Oh look, here's a snake.

Let's see if I can catch it.

(rhythmic drumming)

Still not the frog Morely is after.

But then, success.

(speaking in foreign language)

Sitting on this leaf.

(narrator speaking in foreign language)

The gold nugget tree frog

is a real beauty with huge eyes.

An adaptation to life at night.

I'm hoping we might hear some calling tonight,

but so far, we haven't had any luck.

It's a male or female?

That is most probably it's a male.

You can see, it's a very nice golden yellow color.

Big eyes.
Yeah.

(speaking in foreign language)

Morely isn't able

to record the croaking of the gold nugget

tree frog on this occasion.

But his hunt for frog calls is still successful.

Yeah.

I think it--

On the ground?

I think it was just over there.

(frog calling)

(speaking in foreign language)

(chirping)

Yes, it's recording now.

(frog chirping)

Male frogs croak

in order to attract females willing to mate.

Frog researchers like Morely Reid, though,

are interested in the croaking for other reasons.

The more songs that are known,

the easier nature conservation becomes

in the dense jungle.

If a particular frog song is heard less and less,

it's a warning that the species is endangered.

(frogs chirping)

At worse, like so many others,

it can die out altogether.

(speaking in foreign language)

Giovanni Onore uses the night

for his own scientific research.

His specialty is insects.

With a bright light and a white sheet,

he can attract moths.

(speaking in foreign language)

No other animal group

in the cloud forest has as many species as insects.

There are an estimated 60,000

different butterflies and moths here.

There are as many varieties

of butterflies and moths in the cloud forest

as there are of vegetation.

Most of them are dependent on just a few plants.

(steady instrumental music)

A healthy cloud forest, though,

doesn't benefit just the insects,

but the humans living nearby as well.

The trees capture the water out of the clouds,

and purify it.

Clean water has long been taken for granted

in rainy Ecuador.

But intact rainforests are crucial

as a natural supplier of pure drinking water.

(water crashing)

(speaking in foreign language)

Nature has its own value.

More and more people are understanding that.

Politicians come from the town in the region,

looking for water here for their inhabitants.

The doctors say,

the clean water means fewer gastrointestinal diseases.

There's a direct link between humans

and nature conservation.

I've got a photo of it.

We found, where did we find?

Morely Reid and Giovanni Onore

use the following morning to analyze

what they caught in the night.

That's what I know.

It's alright.
Yeah.

In the very first bag, a rarity.

In Ecuador's rainforests,

there are snakes with a very special diet.

Snails are on the menu of this slender beauty.

Using their small pointed teeth,

they pull the prey from their shells.

I'm trying to get the head side on...

More and more varieties of snake

are being discovered in Ecuador.

Almost every one of Morely Reid's expeditions

comes back with something new.

With the yula.

Beautiful colorful.

To land.

Frogs, snakes, insects.

In the cloud forests of the Andes,

biologists still have a lot to discover.

For Giovanni Onore,

that's the greatest value of the forest.

And the strongest argument for preserving his paradise.

That's why I invite researchers.

When they find something new,

they name it Otongico, or Otongensus, after the reserve.

It's a clear message.

Don't touch.

Here is biodiversity.

What laws and politicians fail to do,

scientists achieve.

(upbeat instrumental music)

Giovanni Onore is confident

that his approach will work.

People and nature can benefit from each other.

If used carefully,

the magnificent cloud forests are not lost.

Instead, they even grow back.

(water splashing)
(laughing)