Environmentalists in danger | DW Documentary
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- The fight against the destruction of nature is a dangerous one. Around the globe, people are risking their lives to protect the environment and climate. When environmentalists’ activities disrupt organized crime and other illegal profiteers, they are sued, threatened and even murdered.
According to the organization Global Witness, 227 environmental activists were killed in 2020 alone, and the number of unreported cases is probably much higher. In addition to environmentalists, indigenous people who fight illegal land grabs and journalists who report on environmental crimes are often also in grave danger. This documentary accompanies those for whom fighting for the environment is dangerous work.
The filmmakers travel to Nigeria, a country known for its oil wealth. But in parts of the Niger Delta, people suffer due to leaking oil pipelines. Huge areas are contaminated with oil, leading to empty fishing nets, polluted water, contaminated fields and a high mortality rate. Many people are starving. And they are as good as defenseless, because anyone who resists the oil mafia is threatened or even killed.
In Peru, non-governmental organizations and indigenous people are up against international corporate interests that exploit the rainforest. Illegal palm oil, cocoa and coffee plantations are tearing huge holes in the jungle. Added to this is the overexploitation of tropical timber and, more recently, the production of cocaine. For those who want to protect the Amazon rainforest, the work is extremely dangerous.
In Europe, too, the pressure on environmentalists is growing. Due to an increase in timber and energy prices, illegal logging in Romania's forests is becoming more and more profitable for criminals. And those who work to uncover the illegal business live in fear of retribution.
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I am absolutely shocked and devastated by this. One may think there are officials being paid off to keep these secrets based on their responses. The last scene at the end and the oil in the water in the beginning were so heart wrenching to witness. Thank you once again DW, this documentary deserves an award. These people fighting for our planet are doing a thankless jobs, very heroic/ May God bless them and their families.
This is so heartbreaking. Corporations must be held accountable. Corporations have the funds to maintain drilling operations and should be forced to do so.
Heartbreaking that shell can't set up without them stealing it causing an environmental disaster while processing, not just Nigeria, it happens all over, they are tapping into lines, spilling crude oil and dumping it after making gas and diesel. It's been well documented by Vice and many others, it's constantly on the Africa news where they find new illegal taps, corruption is insane, that oil should have been a blessing but between corruption and theft it's unfortunately not
@@All2Skitzd yes, I realised after writing that illegal tapping is also a cause of the leakage too. Shell could mitigate this by working with the government and create more local jobs or schools, improving living standards. Of course locals should not steal too as they are unwittingly causes significant environmental damage. It’s a sad situation.
Corporations run the world. It would take non-legislative action to effect any real change.
This channel does an extremely better job of reporting world news when compared to CNN & BBC
The BBC is controlled by Tories
@@ComommonlyCensored what exactly is propaganda? Pinpoint the time in this doc that's a lie
true...I was surprised to see what going on in Qatar with the domestic workers and yet aljazeer a are turning a blind eyes on it
@@ComommonlyCensored what?
Undoubtly.
Corporate greed supports criminals.
On the contrary. Corporate greed funds climate alarmists and things in human right industry. For Nigeria. big oil is Manna from 'heaven'.
@@hizbawiginbarginbarghinda3872 Sorry but I’ll have to disagree with you on that. I don’t believe in the climate change Marxists who really just want a huge global tax on all of us middle class workers.
The same with the vietnamese green environmentalist Nguy Thi Khanh.
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Nigeria of all countries should be doing better in terms of their environment but...the Nigerian government focuses on money over human & animal lives
Why of all countries?
@@kenbee1957 Because it is one of the fastest ecomic power house in Africa, Nigeria and South Africa.
Vietnam: first time?
This reminds me of the thousand of jailed journalists, fårmêrs in vietnam so far such as Tran Huynh Duy Thuc , Pham Chi Dung , Nguyen Tuong Thuy , Pham Chi Thanh , Can Thi Theu , Le Dinh Luong , Truong Minh Duc , Nguyen Trung Ton , Pham Van Troi , Hoang Duc Binh , Tran Anh Kim , Pham Van Diep and the green environmentalist Nguy Thi Khanh.
Yes
Very eye opening and well done. I had no idea the mess was so widespread. I would love a piece on what average person can do to help, I feel rather lost.
I feel the same. We can help in a small way by being careful not to buy things that contain palm oil, e.g., a lot of chocolate (Nestles, Lindt, being two). And the EU? Useless.
You could start by only buying local organic food. No processes shit with palm oil, no commercial cacao etc, buying second hands furniture (no IKEA)... If everyone would do that, these bastards will go out of business. At least I feel good doing it, thinking that at least I have not contribute to this mess....
One of the best things that we can do is move our money away from them by choosing to bank with a local credit union instead. My former bank financed illegal pipelines where i live and when i found that out i closed my accounts and even moved my mortgage over. F*** them!
@@barbaraseymour3437 have avoided Nestle products for 40 yrs, only dirty vice was Nutella but decreased that, careful about who I do business with, much as want yarns from Europe, have learned to spin my own alpaca yarns, knit warm things and heat house only to 60 in winter, planted my yard with fruit trees/vines/ground cover and yet it seems not enough.sigh
start by learning about the water in ur area...where it comes from..how to find it naturally yourself..clean it ...test it ..learn
I have co-workers from Nigeria
They are the kindest and most colorful people that I know
It is so heartbreaking to see how big corporations & government treat the people of Nigeria 💔
God bless the people from Nigeria 🙏🏼
Much love from the Netherlands 🫶🏼
The best way to be an environmentalist is by finding a real solution to the problem
The beginning of finding that solution is make sure that the problem is highlighted to the general public. The prime job of the environmentalist is awareness
If you read through the comments here, you'll notice that the majority of people here weren't even aware of any of this stuff
Once again, thank you for making these fact-based educational documentaries, DW!
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment, Diana!
Very heart wrenching documentary 😢
Thank you to these community leaders.
Shame on Shell, ghastly company.. Keeping an oil rich country in poverty while making vast profits off them and passing the blame on to them for any spills.
I'm European, and I'm just disgusted at what our life style does to people so far away. As much as I'd want to just see these oil companies be taken accountable, the reality is they most likely never will. The amount of influence and money they have bar any hope for actual reform.
Excellent documentary. The EU really needs to beef up legal action against ANY company involved directly or indirectly with these activites, even seizing assets. These robbers will only stop when they too are robbed.
Actually, members of the EU even help these corporations - after their mandate ends companies promise them higher positions for favours etc. :)
The EU is too busy subsidizing these monsters to worry about that. I am glad the UK left the EU depite our problems.
@@suminshizzles6951 the EU is okay mostly. Each basically anything does good things and some bad ones. Even your country, which is in complete downfall economical and political wise.
One thing is sure , that i am not going to buy petrol from any SHELL outlet
Is the cacao company by chance nestle?
Nestle has also been disturbing one of Michigan USA Great Lakes. Could you do a report on that one also.
And all this big oil companies have their ESG reports registered at NYSE and alike.
To be fair, the oil companies do have to grapple with black market activity. It makes it difficult to really properly asses who is polluting to what extent. So multinationals think it is black marketeers, even if it is at least partially them. If black marketeers could be stopped, it would become much easier to assess the pollution that legal oil activity causes.
thank you for your coverage. please hear your nations' cry, stop the selfishness. It will not save you at the end of life.
Perhaps one alternative to minimise corruption is finding an alternative way to make a living so that there will be a shift from people that indulge in corruption to the better way of making a living.
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MAY the Anthroprocene epoch make the Permian-Triassic extinction event seem like a minor footnote in the pages of Earth's history. Here's to making scenario SSP5-8.5 of the IPCC assessment a reality.
May god bless and keep you safe you are true and and in the right ... damn shell oil.. company.
Wow
We are all collectively screwed as a species, aren't we?
bye bye humans
People go missing in my country they are targeted by private para military group hired by corporations)
Nigeria is a oil rich country, but it's peoples are poor due to it's curropt elite and western oil companies.
Not purely Western Oil companies, but also other factors.
✨🌎🇺🇸 Excellent Environmental Reporting 💦⛽️🌳👍
Fight to save the world . 🌎🌏
The world as always will just be fine.
@@hizbawiginbarginbarghinda3872 keep on dreaming
Wow amazing documentary
Well, it’s we who use the oil. So WE must do something.
Right,how about leaving the oil in the ground!
Well lead the movement Barbara because I have no idea where to start when I’m dead tired at the end of the day by working to support my existence on this hamster wheel they’ve got us on.
The English subtitles on the Nigerian people are heavily altered from the actual words spoken... It is like they tried to paraphrase them instead of directly writing down the English words they said...
I think some similar tactics are being used on advocates of the wild cat species that are endangered by habitat losses.
Thank you for caring.
If anything is the issue, its the local/Federal government who give the permits to companies.
This is the price for cheap oil and gas. And since the price of renewables is falling the only thing that stops humanity having cleaner air and water is a select few corporations that profit from nonrenewable energy.
Thanks DW ❤️ & Kudos to the Brave Activists I'm praying for their safety and fighting spirit. DW how about DRC documentary? they've been cases of illegal mining.
Very good documentary, holding these corporations executives responsible is important, not the just the corporation, but their owners, however, if you drive a fossil fuel vehicle and want cheap gas, then we are all must share some responsibility…governments are just puppets of these wealthy corporations sadly!!
God bless DW. bbc can't do such quality documentary
Here in the Philippines, environmentalists are getting unjustly labeled as “terrorists” or “communist rebels”
Shame on these corporations, Enron, Shell…shame on you! These corporations are destroying this earth.
Sickening All of it!
We Can Not Carry
On like this.Mankind
Everyone is stuck in a mental trap that monetary compensation is justice. The toxic exposure and damage has occurred, and money is the reason they occurred in the first place. Money is not a neutral medium. Unsurprisingly, it entrenches bias in favour of expanding markets, that results in further development and more resource extraction. If we cannot apply the precautionary principle and limit growth, we’re doomed.
I'm sure the situation in Nigeria is much more complicated than this program depicts. Shell likely has a valid argument that they do not want to be responsible for others who are illegally tapping pipelines, etc.. They also likely have many complicated subsidiaries and contracting arrangements where Shell is not even legally involved. To me, it seems so backwards and corrupt that I just can't see any financial incentive that would be worthwhile to get involved in Nigeria AT ALL. Way too dangerous, with many risks to employees and company reputation. Looks like the wild west except worse.
activist who are throwing oils and on historical monument should go to Nigeria to help this guy.
many thank
The developed countries should start being self-sufficient on resources, rather than depending on supplies from corrupted countries incapable of demonstrating responsible practices.
There are the large producers and then at the bottom of the tree us consumers whom they are serving, so I think it is also at the consumer level that change can come in order to halt the destruction of territory and people highlighted in this video.
A realistic views are abundance in the documentary and cumulatively presented in an understanding way. It's an alarming situation to boycott the shell company products and isolate such a corporates threatening the world. Good effort and thanks DW to get this awareness.
When greed dominates nearly eveyrone's agenda this kind of anti activist behavior is rampant.
Yet, the British prime minister has said there's no point going to COP 27 and has forbidden the king from attending.
My first thought as far as rain forests go was have the farmers start a crowd funding operation and sell small plots to folks in the US, EU, UK etc but then I think that the corrupt would only likely get those finds too and proceed with deforestation anyway. Seems pretty hopeless but as long as there are no alternatives to poverty in these places coupled with mass corruption, people are going to do whatever they need to do to survive, even if it is only short term. That is the depressing reality as I see it. God help us all!
An interesting film, thank you.
Best Channel on youtube
The government should provide this people with at least a mechanism to filter the oil out of the water they drink. Unbelievable how corrupt people can be, to they point they feel no remorse of slowly killing communities.
Its time for the ways of the soulless true criminals of this world to perish! Love & Blessings
Did I hear that the average salary in Nigeria is 160 Euros
Sad situation!
Do a documentary this year for right to clean water grassroots petitioning here in Florida. It's not really a paradise any longer, too much overpumping, overdeveloping and over polluting almost all across the state. We need many thousands of petitions by the end of the year for it to get on the state ballot next year, apparently loads of them get rejected for no reason... besides that environmentalism in my home state of FL is fairly lean (but still some Very passionate and smart people in their little groups), might not be the worst state in America but it's up there
Governments and business does not care if we suffer or die! We are all just expendable slaves!
its all about "profits"
Ephesians 5:11
Are they fighting a loosing battle ? . Keep fighting ; Don't give up ; There has to be a better way .
The amount of dislikes these vids get is heartbreaking. What kind of monster supports environmental destruction?
They will die who try to touch you unkown reson. Do your work save your land for the good.
Don't blame the oil companies. The corrupt government is the problem.
There are many factors but shell certainly contributes to environmental atrocities.
I don't mean to judge but why don't the Nigerians that leave for school and work come back and dig wells for their families. They could also put together a legal fund to enforce the judge's ruling regarding the oil company matter. There seen to be other technologies that could be purchased to bring clean water and more electricity to the homes. just an outsider perspective.
So freaking sad
Good.
That music after the title drop sounds straight out of Xenoblade Chronicles X
6:15 Restoration, not renovation.
It’s hard to call it a victory if the issue is 18 years old and still affect the citizens. It’s a well known truth that the illegal tapping and sabotage is common, so it’s not 100% Shells fault.
The largest error is that Shell didn’t pay more for their valuable oil to the people, not only to the corrupted politicians.
Those gas flares could power many villages.
Especially in Amazon rainforest the Brasilian government should ask for help internationally, from global institutions and governments, for legal and armed enforcement in all the territory of Amazan, and give them permission to operate there 24/7, if the brasilian government is weak to do it by itself and if it is not involved too, in this crime.
To be fair to Shell, they re is a lot of illegal, clandestine, black market oil activity in Nigeria worsening the problem. We know from the Exxon Valdez disaster that oil spills should recover in full after two or three years. That it has not suggests that other activity is causing pollution in the area.
PepsiCo, Nestle, shell, Adani etc Big companies can't stand environmentalists
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I guess you can have a good night-sleep now
It's the ART that's in danger from the environmentalists.
the planet is fine - the people are the problem
They did tamper with the pipelines, this is a huge issue spanning all third world countries. The locals ignorance, in combination with poverty is not a good recipe when it comes to oil pipelines. They tap them illegally, without any regard for the environment.
I know a word, "GREED."
Misleading information to say the least. For example: National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry from Romania never published any data referring to 20 millions cubic meters of wood being illegally harvested.
They should just glue themselves to everything and block ambulances, that will totally solve the issue.
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This is your world, u can’t let others du what ever they want , especially when it’s dangering your health, u du what u have to du to stop it, if they don’t care why should u , it’s up to us to make it a better place , man just dosent care, that’s greed.
Take them out at the top, until then the destruction will continue.
The UN should remove the oil Corps from Niger Nigeria because harm local people but Shell must pay damages
If A SUPERNATIONAL European body is created alike police etc, with the sole task of monitoring and forcing local government to prosecute perpetrators of pollution, illegal logging, building where they should not or putting roads where they should not. Prosection should result in fines and prison time, and they should also have a legislation and a body that works in cooperation and interetwined that monitors provenience of goods who sold it to who from the point of harvest onward. It should say clearly on the label to facilitate things. There should be a record of the payments and change of hands with bank accounts and even anything cash or one could force the businesses that deal in woods and wherever applicable to only work with bank payments and make sure that it is respected. It would be enough to install hidden cameras on the roads that track have to use to get the wood to the industry and it should also say how many trunks or how many Kg (in case of fruits etc) . If they do not do this along side other measures (ie intorducing beevers in suitable areas especially where they suffer of aridity and use desalinisators and then green tecknology to bring the water uphill for the beevers to create they own habitat. It has been shown to mitigate floods, to rehumidify the envronment to stop fires, and also to benefit wildlife of all sorts, fish and other creatures and to promote biodiversity. Also it increases soil fertility because the water in the pools created by beevers does not run away and has the time to get into the deeper ground and help to provide continuation of ground water which is beneficial for plants and humans.
Benzene is the primary cause of asthma according to very respectable researchers,
Nigeria should invest in an one child policy, just like China with those Birth numbers. Over 400.000 newborns each month isn't really good for the environment is it?
Is that what you took from this documentary? We are to many people in the world. Go and 📚 soon we will have to little people in the 🌎
Hold out on selling; it's always better!
10 years and the Amazon is going to be gone. you haven't seen anything like that migration. Environmental crisis times 100.
1:59 You are contributing to envirodestruction by flying around.
22:10 mpd 26:00 26:30 27:00
We're poor and future looks bleak. Let's have 6 kids.
African in Africa are suing shell that’s located in Africa in European courts the government of Nigeria is vomit to it citizens
She'll is hell .
Oil is against God
Min. 11:17,” …mr. Clinton with his four children, and his heavily pregnant wife…” over population, Nigerias has more than 200 million, and most living in poverty, how about not having so many children. That’s the key factor, the priest mentions his travels in Germany and other European countries, propagation of children stopped in north Europe in the dark ages or a bit after and as a result prosperity came.
fight me bro, i helped make the oil rigs on sea and i help shell in our soil with production, you all deserve it
ikea
💰 uk for the gas and people for buying
The best thing you can do is not have kids! What's the use of having kids if they will die young?
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