We go deep into Southeast Asia’s jungles to see what’s causing the devastating extent of deforestation. Wildlife is also under constant threat from increased poaching, which has created high-risk battlegrounds for environmental defenders. Why do they risk their lives, and at what price?
In the Philippines, ranger Kuhkan Maas and his colleagues face shootings and assault from encroachers as they protect Masungi Georeserve, a watershed vital in preventing floods in the capital Manila.
In Indonesia, we follow Hendra Saputra and his team of rangers who live for weeks-on-end in the jungle to protect the Leuser Ecosystem, the last place on earth with tigers, elephants, orangutans, and rhinos in the wild.
In Thailand, Netnapa Ngamnet, the head of a ranger patrol team in Thailand’s biggest national park, Kaeng Krachan takes us on armed patrols. Her zero tolerance policy towards environmental crimes makes her a target to criminal syndicates.
岗卡章是全泰国最大的国家公园,为脆弱的生态系统提供了重要的避难所。公园长期遭受滥伐森林和非法狩猎的威胁,妮塔娜帕.雅姆妮和一众护林队员走在最前线保护公园;她同时亦是精英组织「虎王特遣队」成员,调查环境相关罪案。这两份工令她成为武装偷猎者和犯罪集团的目标,每天都要面对危险状况。
然而,她坚守环保法例的决心却令她与克伦族原住民产生冲突。吉布.托南佩奇一家原本住在岗卡章国家公园深处,被迫迁后在重置村难以维生,希望重返祖居地,延续克伦族几百年来的轮耕种植传统。
Kaeng Krachan is Thailand’s biggest national park and provides a vital sanctuary for a fragile ecosystem.
Netnapa Ngamnet and her team of forest rangers are on the front lines protecting the park from the constant threat of deforestation and poaching. She is also a member the King of Tigers Task Force, an elite unit that investigates environmental crimes. In both her jobs, she faces danger daily - be it from armed poachers or criminal syndicates.
But her determination to uphold environmental protection laws brings her into conflict with the indigenous Karen people. Displaced from her home, Gib Tonnampetch and her family struggle to make ends meet in their relocation village. Gib wants to return to her ancestral lands deep within Kaeng Krachan, to continue the Karen people’s centuries long tradition of rotation crop cultivation.

岗卡章是全泰国最大的国家公园,为脆弱的生态系统提供了重要的避难所。公园长期遭受滥伐森林和非法狩猎的威胁,妮塔娜帕.雅姆妮和一众护林队员走在最前线保护公园;她同时亦是精英组织「虎王特遣队」成员,调查环境相关罪案。这两份工令她成为武装偷猎者和犯罪集团的目标,每天都要面对危险状况。
然而,她坚守环保法例的决心却令她与克伦族原住民产生冲突。吉布.托南佩奇一家原本住在岗卡章国家公园深处,被迫迁后在重置村难以维生,希望重返祖居地,延续克伦族几百年来的轮耕种植传统。
Kaeng Krachan is Thailand’s biggest national park and provides a vital sanctuary for a fragile ecosystem.
Netnapa Ngamnet and her team of forest rangers are on the front lines protecting the park from the constant threat of deforestation and poaching. She is also a member the King of Tigers Task Force, an elite unit that investigates environmental crimes. In both her jobs, she faces danger daily - be it from armed poachers or criminal syndicates.
But her determination to uphold environmental protection laws brings her into conflict with the indigenous Karen people. Displaced from her home, Gib Tonnampetch and her family struggle to make ends meet in their relocation village. Gib wants to return to her ancestral lands deep within Kaeng Krachan, to continue the Karen people’s centuries long tradition of rotation crop cultivation.