Rebuilding the Amazon: The Indigenous Path to a Living Forest | SLICE

What if the future depends on those who never abandoned the forest? Deep in the Amazon rainforest, indigenous leader Benki Piyãko is rebuilding what destruction tried to erase. At Yorenka, a forest once fragmented by farming, mining, and cattle ranching is coming back to life—tree by tree, species by species. Here, the forest is not exploited but cultivated as a living system. Açaí, medicinal plants, native cattle, wildlife, and people coexist in a model of self-sufficiency rooted in ancestral knowledge. Reforestation replaces burning. Indigenous cattle graze under the canopy instead of turning land into desert. Every tree cut is answered by hundreds planted. But this way of life is under constant threat: illegal hunting, land grabs, industrial farming, mining, oil drilling, and political systems that favor money over protection. As wildlife disappears and violence rises, defending the forest has become a matter of survival. This documentary follows a radical alternative to deforestation—one that challenges modern agriculture and asks a simple question: Documentary: Our Forests – Brazil, Replanting the Amazon Forest Directed by: Luc Marescot Production : Arte France, Lato Sensu Productions, Wide Productions We fully own the rights to the use of the published content. Any illegal reproduction of this content will result in immediate legal action. SLICE wants to fill up your curiosity! Accessible to anyone from anywhere at any time, this channel is your weekly dose of short docs about curious facts, discoveries, astounding info, unusual stories, weird, fun and instructive. Be smart, have a slice! Subscribe now ►►► http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvziXdVCN7PMdFZEFZ6aEqQ?sub_confirmation=1 Become a fan ! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvziXdVCN7PMdFZEFZ6aEqQ/join Follow us 👇 In French: https://www.youtube.com/c/SLICEFR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/slicedocs Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slicedocs #documentary #slice #fulldocumentary #freedocumentary #amazonrainforest #indigenousknowledges #reforestation #sustainableliving #ancestralwisdom #forestprotection #biodiversity #natureandculture #amazonlife #environmentalhistory #humanandnature