Does the Amazon rainforest really exist?
Audio 48:30
The Amazon rainforest does not exist / Stephen Rostain © Le Pommier / Salgado
By: Caroline Lachowsky
50 mins
A look back at thousands of years of forest management by the Amerindians to change their outlook and perspective on the Amazon.
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Let's deconstruct a myth: that of the Amazonian rainforest which has no virgin but the name, a name borrowed from Greek mythology, which does not really reflect the reality of these immense tropical forests, a true green continent of more than 7 million of km2 much earlier and densely populated than our Western imagination led us to believe ...
Why does the mythical dimension of the Amazon outweigh its geographic reality?
How did the idea of a virgin paradise populated by savages come about?
While archeology reveals a whole different past, much richer and more innovative (that of the Amerindian peoples who have shaped, developed and managed their forests for 13,000 years), why and how to change the perspective on the Amazon?
With
Stephen Rostain,
archaeologist specializing in
the Amazon
for his book
The virgin Amazonian forest does not exist
which will be published by Editions Le Pommier in August.
Sebastiao Salagado
"Salgado Amazônia"
exhibition
at the Philarmonie de Paris until October 31, 2021
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