
Forest Guardians
from ancient past the Ka'apor now walks the path of Sea Shepherd into the land of tomorrow
The Science of a healthy life
Ka'apor, in the Brazilian state of Maranhão is a native Brazilian Indian Tribe that at 2000 man strong raised their voice and hearts, fists and arms to protect and serve all our global tomorrow.
While politicians meet and talk at WFC 2015 and UN meetings ( will they for once do something productive? Or is this one more opportunity for politicians to waste money through representation ), Sea Shepherd fights a slow but much-needed campaign at sea, serving us all by protecting our planetary health. While inside the lushness of Brazilian forests Ka'apor takes the illegal and destructive logging head on.
Burning their equipment and sending them back from where they came, protecting their native land for the benefit of a healthier global future.

Photography by Mike Koontz
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United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030
Scandinavia and Switzerland lead the world, but what about the Amazonas?
Amazonas. A lush and slightly mysterious piece of land that more often than not is referred to as our global lungs, home to countless of animal species, native American tribes, rivers, and sadly illegal logging. Amazonas is as it needs to be, a global concern, and the Brazilian government is mandated to protect it from destructive exploitation, it is simply too big and important globally speaking to just chop away and use up in a non-sustainable way.
Sadly, so far in history, the Brazilian government have not really brought much of concrete action to put a damper on the commercial but legal and sadly extremely nonsustainable logging. Neither have they managed to reign in the equally widespread illegal logging which, like a plague, have tormented this area of the world for far too long.
Resulting in a situation where countless of lives have been lost. At times, the widespread devastation in the Amazonas is so violent that entire families have been wiped out and murdered for the sake of carrying on with both legal and illegal logging.
Important biomass and natural diversity vanish without a trace at an alarming pace.
Amazonas have until now been a playful circus where the price of admission is our global health and future and a functional long-term local economy and ecosystem.
A price that far too many gladly wanted to pay just so they could reap the instant cash reward of today. After all, the players fueling the destruction of the Amazonas, the drug lords and greedy global businesses in other nations is way down the line of people that will suffer the worst from the consequences of ravaging this ecosystem.
At least for some time they can ravage and profit and avoid being the ones paying the price, and some of them, for obvious reasons doesn't really give a damn about the far away tomorrow. While other more average actors as is the case in so many other places, simply play the "I am too stupid to know better, and I am hoping that you are too busy to notice that I am destroying your tomorrow" card.
One Sustainable World
[169 target goals
one global future]
But in 2011, the Ka'apor had seen enough. They had encountered one too many illegal loggers, they had seen a few too many areas being plundered and destroyed for decades to come. Witnessed one too many animal species being wiped out by international corporations, and there had simply been too much of their own home pillaged by outsiders, illegal entities that could care less about how the Ka'apor would live, breathe, and eat in the years to come.
They had seen far too many commercial companies leaving nothing but scorched earth behind as they piled up their mountains of cash in other nations.
No one, not a single nation can be allowed anymore to fall behind. Just as how the entire world needs to realize that no one can allow a globally non-sustainable forest industry to ravage our mutual planet and thus our global and individual health.
70 Indians murdered in Brazil
[ during 2014
a 32% increase
from 2013 ]
So they picked up their bows and spears, and they, in some ways, managed to marry their roots and traditional way of life with the technology of today and tomorrow in their quest to change the coarse.
This is by now a tribe that understands the need for a sustainable and progressive world if all of humanity and Earth will be able to prosper not just today and next week, but for the next 4 decades, the next centuries and millennia. And since that day in 2011, the illegal, and commercial logging have been reduced.
The price for that positive change has been paid in full by a handful of tribe members whom have been murdered by their adversaries and countless of others which have received death threats, so it is not an easy and bloodless fight.
But it is an important one, worth the perils and hardship, and they do not just fight for their own local future, they fight for our global tomorrow. The good that they are doing when they are putting a grinding halt to non-sustainable and destructive logging is your good fortunes too and as such, hopefully, they will not have to stand on their own for much longer. Just as how Sea Shepherd have grown from a merry band of local Australian misfits to a well respected global action group doing good for all of Earth what the Ka'apor really is, is a global force of good and hopefully they too will get much-needed attention and help to overcome the tone deaf and daft opposition they have to perpetually stand up against.
Something that we, in all honesty, all need to do on a daily basis in a far better way than we have managed to do up until this point in history.

Data visualization by WWF
Ready, Set go!.
World Forestry Congress & UN Sustainable Development Goals
Two separate but connected, and equally important global events which is all about your individual health and our shared global planetary health, two different things, but also, always, and forever one and the same.
So, let´s get healthy together.
And as such, if you can, why not cast your weight behind both Sea Shepherd and the Ka'apor, they are after all both working hard, risking their own health and well-being for your sake and your tomorrow as much as their own.
Right now, as much as it pains me that I have to mention it, Sea Shepherd, for instance, needs your help against the Danish government, in a sordid case only proving that even the sun can have some dirty spots.
But hopefully, the otherwise wonderful Danish nation will grow some common sense in this case too and put an end not only to its own shameful whale hunts but also to the ongoing legal fights with the Sea Shepherd. Just as how one can only hope that the Danish people will look up above the water to their bigger Swedish neighbor, taking a few pointers when it comes to actually helping refugees instead of shutting them out.
Scandinavia is such a gorgeous and rich place, a true world leader in quality of life and healthy, fulfilling living that no one in Scandinavia should soil themselves with the stupid arrogance and small-minded, selfish bickery of racists and bigots and other, equally narrow-minded people.
So, please be a little bit more inclusive Denmark and a little bit more sustainable.
You´ll get to reap the benefits right away.
And the way the entire world need to help the less fortunate equally much, that is exactly how Brazil needs to not be contempt with having given the Ka'apor legal grounds and rights to fight their own fight, but to do what organizations such as Greenpeace already do. To step in and to help out in real ways.
And that needs to happen right now. It can't take an additional ten years or twenty, this is a change that needs to happen right in the now.
The Brazilian government and every corporation and person doing business in South America simply need to start doing concrete things to help make all our future a better tomorrow.
This is not a green eyed and vague hope, it is simply the scientific facts of life.
Straight from the harsh reality of life on Earth and it is based on the damaging and widespread local and global corruption. Corruption and unsustainable practices that is resulting in the destruction of lives and health. Thankfully tho, concrete and easy to see and do things to fix the problem is abundantly present, so much so that now all that is needed is a global will to act.
And that will grow stronger with you.
Sea Shepherd and The Ka'apor

Photography by Lunae Parracho/Greenpeace
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