Brian's Story
I am twenty-six now, but in my short life I have seen our forests destroyed by foreign companies. They don’t
respect us or our culture or our sacred sites. They run over our food gardens with their machinery and drive
their trucks and bulldozers through our streams, polluting them with oil and mud. Don’t they realise that
people downstream drink from those streams? I suppose they do, but don’t care.
The loggers simply take the trees they want - my people’s forest home. In the process they destroy much
when it rained the soil washed away into the rivers. When I go back to the village now, I see what damage
has been done, there are areas of bare land and grass land where there used to be forests. My uncle tells me
that the hunting is not so good any more, that the animals have gone.
Without the forests we have nothing.
