Rainforest dwellers

A sustainable management of Borneo’s rainforest, threatened today with extinction, necessitates a close collaboration with local communities. Situated on the island of Borneo, one of the largest woodland areas on earth is disappearing rapidly. The Centre Institut de Recherche Forestière (CIFOR) is currently working with the Institut de Recherche pour la Développement to find ways (which rightly implicate all the protaganists) of sustainably managing this forest, endangered by the wood trade.                                                          The Punan, the last hunter gatherers in Borneo’s rainforest, are taken into consideration. Anthropologists from the Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement have concentrated their research on the survival techniques of two Punan communities, who despite a shared origin, language, culture have diverged because of pressure from contrasting environmental constraints.  The social economic situation, diet and health are all indications of how the two divergent communities are evolving.

http://www.ird.fr/la-mediatheque/videos-en-ligne-canal-ird/les-punan-tubu-derniers-chasseurs-cueilleurs-de-borneo/un-peuple-forestier-face-a-la-deforestation

Conseiller scientifique : Edmond Dounias
Images : Edmond Dounias, Régis Garrigue, Patrice Levang
Musique enregistrée par : Patrice Levang
Voix off : Daniel Dupleix

Réalisation : Luc Markiw, Edmond Dounias