Madagascar's forests are cleared for illegal mines

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ย. 2021
  • Desperate Madagascar miners spend months digging dangerous illegal shafts, hunting for gems to feed their families.
    Five months of mining could yield only $500 worth of gems to feed families of 16 or more while forests are chopped down to make way for the treasure hunters.
    Sky's Special Correspondent Alex Crawford visited the mining camps and families who depend on them.
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  • @yournextlondonmayor7256
    @yournextlondonmayor7256 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Guess what they’re mining rare earth minerals for electric cars

    • @DavidJohnson-dc8lu
      @DavidJohnson-dc8lu 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly, minerals used to produce electric batteries are devasting the earth. Mass production of anything devastates the earth.

    • @Ken-fh4jc
      @Ken-fh4jc 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Maybe watch the video next time. They were mining gold and gemstones.

  • @jubejubesa8777
    @jubejubesa8777 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love how people are complaining about the environment. This is seeming like the only way these people can live, so very clearly it's more important than the forest.

  • @sharingathought
    @sharingathought 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We're our own enemies, 5:51 paying a dollar for 5months work?

  • @cabdikarimofficial4689
    @cabdikarimofficial4689 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What isthe illegal

  • @anti-stupid-not--vax9629
    @anti-stupid-not--vax9629 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Illegal mines? Why because government get no tax?🤔🤔

  • @benardo01
    @benardo01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    They're strip mining

  • @johnkaplan1316
    @johnkaplan1316 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At 5:13 poor guys drops one and no one noticed

  • @coffeeNTrees
    @coffeeNTrees 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    present an alternative for these people.

    • @fairwind8676
      @fairwind8676 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      it's the law of the jungle and it's rigged

  • @devilsadvocate9580
    @devilsadvocate9580 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Despite ongoing deforestation, fires, drought-induced die-offs, and insect outbreaks, the world’s tree cover actually increased by 2.24 million square kilometers - an area the size of Texas and Alaska combined - over the past 35 years

    • @wasidanatsali6374
      @wasidanatsali6374 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just in my lifetime, it’s unreal how much the trees in US eastern forests have recovered from logging and matured. The forests along the Appalachian Mtn chain have gotten so mature, they cut some openings just to provide green browse for wildlife.
      Despite all the climate change doom and gloom, farming has become so efficient that 65% more food per acre can be grown compared to 50 years ago. It’s estimated that by 2030 an area the size of India will have been released from the cow and plow.

    • @gavinspiby8304
      @gavinspiby8304 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It lacks any biodiversity though !
      the wildlife is gone and not coming back

    • @wasidanatsali6374
      @wasidanatsali6374 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Gavin Sbiby The wildlife is returning, in droves. Both in Europe and the US. The black bear population on the East Coast is exploding. There’s so many gators now that just about any ditch in the South with water in it might contain a gator. There are breeding populations of gators in Tennessee now. Far north of the gator’s traditional range. Mountain lions are doing so well out West they’re migrating to the East. Mountain lions are being spotted in states east of the Mississippi River where they haven’t been seen in over 100 years.
      Rich western nations are actually experiencing an apex predator renaissance.

    • @wasidanatsali6374
      @wasidanatsali6374 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/TIApbJImcbQ/w-d-xo.html

  • @biulaimh3097
    @biulaimh3097 ปีที่แล้ว

    When they are finished digging a shatf, they could build a little semi circle wall slightly downhill of it to have the shaft fill with rainwater. A little solar powered pump with drip irrigation would give them a crop during the dry season.

  • @zoolhert3535
    @zoolhert3535 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Send sky news down

  • @tm8396
    @tm8396 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I hope that go pro belongs to sky news.

  • @bradador1
    @bradador1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ah well. Blah blah. Hope this helps

  • @captain_context9991
    @captain_context9991 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And as usual... Its all Europeans fault for bying rings and gems, right?

  • @HikmatulloXursanov
    @HikmatulloXursanov 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If wealthy countries so care about climate change , they should help these people to make a living.

    • @BlackRose-vi2yg
      @BlackRose-vi2yg 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They cannot even help their own people make a living.

  • @ranchjellybean7058
    @ranchjellybean7058 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    no onder theyr starving

  • @sonfordhabeenzu
    @sonfordhabeenzu 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ni