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亚马逊 (1997)
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00:05THE END
00:33Our perceptions of the Amazon are mostly mythical.
00:43But in Amazonia, reality is more amazing than mythology.
01:01Go! Go!
01:22South America has the biggest river, the largest forest,
01:26the longest mountain range, and the greatest variety of life forms
01:31of all the continents on Earth.
01:36Rivers from five nations pour into the vast flatland of Equatorial Brazil
01:41to form the greatest moving mass of fresh water in the world.
01:47The Amazon River flows toward the rising sun,
01:51and with it, one-fifth of the continental runoff water of the planet.
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02:14on Earth A
02:23Among the distant sources of the Amazon is the timeless land of the Incas.
02:29Men of the Caliwaya tribe were medicine men to the royal family in bygone days of an empire
02:37larger than that of Rome.
02:41Even now, Caliwaya menfolk journey throughout the Andes, healing people with magic and medicinal
02:49plants.
03:06Julio Mamani will follow the tradition of his people.
03:12It saddens me there was no plant nor magic that could save my mother when she got sick.
03:21Whispered in Pukina, the secret language of the Incas, mysteries of the healing arts are
03:28past, generation to generation.
03:38I have made a vow to go to the great tropical forest below our mountain home, and return
03:43with plants that will increase our power to cure illness and prolong life.
04:06Ako Mani, the god mountain of our people, watches over the Caliwaya, and has done so since
04:13our earliest beginnings.
04:20It is said that water trickling from the glaciers of Ako Mani will lead one to the great river.
04:27Sipping the melt of ancient ice brings rejuvenation.
04:31When I reach the tropical forest, perhaps I can trade the glacier water for an unknown
04:36elixir that will prolong life.
04:40Death on an unknown and new mountain steeple in the sea is an important part.
05:02This was a great day in the sea, that we can be in the sea.
05:03That would be the second day in the sea.
05:04It was very calm.
05:05You are so happy, aren't you?
08:39Dr. Mark Plotkin is also a medicine man.
08:44Like Mamani, he is in search of plants that will heal humanity's ills.
08:49He is an ethnobotanist.
08:53His hope?
08:55To find cures to diseases which Western medicine has not conquered.
09:07There's a remarkable connection between the plants and peoples of the forest.
09:12Virtually every useful medicinal or agricultural plant that's come to us from the rainforest
09:17was first learned from indigenous people.
09:26Dr. Plotkin is driven by a dread that some species may disappear before their life-saving attributes
09:34are discovered.
09:45In our search for new treatments for the diseases that plague us, the Amazon rainforest represents
09:51one of the most promising places to look.
10:09At La Cueva de las Lechuzas I have reached the edge of the legendary forest.
10:21It seems to me a mystical gateway to the vast forest beyond.
10:35Mamani has reached the flatlands of Amazonia, a region almost large enough to cover the face of the moon.
10:52The Amazon basin is home to the planet's greatest celebration of diversity.
11:17For millions of years, environmental conditions have been favourable to a profusion of life.
11:54Professor The
11:59The canopy is largely unexplored.
12:05Its upper tier, where most of its life goes on,
12:08has barely been visited.
12:17It averages 50 feet thick
12:20and amounts to 20,000 cubic miles of wood, water, air, and green leaves.
12:30Don Antonio is a shaman of the Kokama people.
12:33He's my friend and my teacher.
12:36His knowledge of the healing properties of the Amazon flora is extraordinary.
12:43No one knows how many species of living things exist
12:47in two million square miles of forest canopy.
12:57The Amazon houses a gigantic ecological machine of global importance.
13:04It is a world resource at risk.
13:10The biodiversity of the Amazon is unique.
13:16The only place of its kind in the world.
13:26In the light and warmth and water
13:29are millions of different species
13:32and many more, perhaps, unknown.
14:00One day in the forest.��
14:10Oh.
14:27Shoot.
14:47The sloth, called perisoso, or lazy one in Spanish, swims as well as most quadrupeds.
14:56A jaguar often jumps in to cross a waterway.
15:03At 500 pounds, the tapir is the largest land animal native to South America.
15:19In mid-year, the Amazon rises to maximum flood, as much as 45 feet above its November minimum.
15:31With the deluge, aquatic life invades the once dry forest floor.
15:41The piraruku is one of the main food fish of the Amazon.
15:46It can exceed six feet in length and 200 pounds in weight.
15:56The pippa toad is almost invisible, until it eats.
16:13Electric eels deal death with 500-volt sharks.
16:23The piranha has the sharpest teeth of all predatory fish.
16:48Of all the creatures of the Amazon, the pink dolphin is the most celebrated.
16:53...
16:54I don't know.
17:24The thousands of miles of waterways remain the primary means of travel in the Amazon.
18:02The thousands of miles of waterways remain the primary means of travel in the Amazon.
18:37The people of the river are known as Capocos, part Indian, part Portuguese, sometimes the
18:44blood of Africans.
18:45Many are almost as skillful as the Cayahuayas with herbal remedies.
18:51We have much to learn from one another.
18:53I'll be there.
19:14I'll be there.
19:16I'll be there.
19:21I'll be there.
19:22I'll be there.
19:37In my village we use cobwebs to stop bleeding.
19:43Here I have been shown how to dress a wound with leaves that would coagulate blood.
19:51Most folk remedies and medicinal cures used by the Caboclos come from the Indians.
20:16We know that fungi have provided the world with penicillin and other antibiotics but the
20:23potential of tropical fungi remains largely unknown.
20:39For millions of years the Amazon was uninhabited by humans.
20:43The Indians arrived during the last ice age which ended a few thousand years ago.
20:52After the Europeans arrived 500 years ago, in quest of land, slaves and gold, indigenous
21:00people fled deeper into the wilderness.
21:15More than 400 tribes have been identified in the Amazon basin.
21:20Others may remain undiscovered.
21:28With no sense of time beyond tomorrow, they live in hiding, cradled in an everlasting present.
21:45As late as 1943, the upper reaches of the Xingu River were largely unexplored.
21:54Orlando Villas-Boas and his brothers left São Paulo with an expedition called Roncador-Xingu.
22:01Some things only happened once in the history of the world.
22:05It was a moment in time that can never be repeated.
22:09After three years and three thousand kilometers of a path cut with machete,
22:14we encountered for the first time the Indian populations of the Alto Xingu.
22:21Very little was known about them and they knew only enough of the outside world to stay hidden as in
22:29centuries past.
22:40The brothers Villas-Boas won acclaim for their success in postponing the bulldozing march of civilization into the Xingu.
22:49In time, the Villas-Boas were overcome by road builders, malaria and old age.
22:56But their dream for survival of the Indians lives on.
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23:32Sidney Pozuelo carries on the legendary work of the brothers Villas-Boas.
23:39Sidney's task is to seek out isolated tribes
23:42and promote legislation to keep Indian lands off-limits to all outsiders.
24:25North of the Amazon Mainstream, toward the Guiana Highlands,
24:29lives a tribe of Indians known as Zoé.
24:34I believe the Indians should only be contacted when necessary to protect them.
24:39It's a dilemma. Do we artificially isolate them?
24:43Or share the technology of our modern world?
24:48Sidney was among the first to make contact with the Zoé.
24:52Only recently has their presence become known.
25:00Suspense that looks the same asкра.
25:03He becomes innocent.
25:17Cause the new people were living in the world.
25:19in the North America.
25:22In the South America,
25:27the creative nation went to the South America.
25:28I don't know.
26:03I am pleased to find no mosquitoes, no malaria, and no sickness, except a woman who had a toothache that
26:10her granddaughter treated with medicinal plants.
26:16There is rumor that the Zoe have encountered a group of people living to the north, a tribe that is
26:23unknown to us.
26:26Some of the men agreed to show me where the strangers have been seen.
26:42When first encountered by jaguar hunters, the Zoe were called Puturu for the ornament of light Puturu wood adults wear
26:51day and night.
26:55We don't know who the others might be, or if they really exist, but if they are there, the gold
27:01seekers making their way up the Kuminapanema River are on a collision course.
27:07The Zoe do not venture into the forbidden north, where they say a tribe of giants lives, and the hills
27:16of Kuminapanema touch the stars.
27:26If there are uncontacted people in the northern highlands, I would prefer to leave them alone.
27:32But it is critical that those who care about them be the first to reach them.
28:01Mamani's search has brought him to the territory of the Yagwa Indians.
28:12The Yagwas have had contact with outsiders for several hundred years.
28:16They are a large tribe known for herbal remedies.
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29:16Oh, my God.
30:03The curacao was killed by poison on the tip of the dart.
30:09It is an exotic potion made from plants and called curare.
30:17Curare is a secret mixture made of bark and leaves in different ways by many tribes throughout the Amazon.
30:26Dr. Mark Plotkin has been fascinated by the mysteries of curare poison for many years.
30:33Each tribe has its own recipe for curare.
30:37I believe that some of them will lead us to new and effective medicines.
30:40In the hands of Western physicians, curare has already become a life-giving medication.
30:46One type is used as a muscle relaxant, another as heart medicine.
30:53What Western scientists once dismissed as magic, we are now finding to have a very real therapeutic effect.
31:03Plotkin and other ethnobotanists hope to press and document as many plants as possible before the knowledge of the shamans
31:12is lost.
31:22Learning the jealously guarded secrets of indigenous shamans requires genuine friendship and mutual trust.
31:48Plotkin and otherhistics hope to press and conduct good standing in advance.liamo
31:53tourism
32:15Trading my medicine, music and magic for things I have needed has allowed me to move freely
32:21about. With distances so great, exchange of a cure for a very fast ride is a very good trade indeed.
32:42Herbal markets exist in cities and towns all along the Amazon and its tributaries.
32:48Plants with true curative power hang side by side with untested elixirs and curious concoctions.
32:57Julio Mamani and Dr. Plotkin are medicine men from vastly different worlds, but they share a common
33:05quest. Each has come in search of the healing secrets of the Amazon. Each seeks to improve the
33:13health of humankind.
33:23And for a fleeting instant, time stands still.
33:31And two distant worlds are one.
33:39It is time to return. I have traded the melted ice of the God Mountain for the medicine of the
33:46great forest.
33:48I have traded my flute for the long ride home.
33:52I will miss the beauty of the Amazon and its many creatures.
33:58What wonderful things I have seen to tell my people.
34:12This is themed us.
34:13What wonderful things I have seen to be here.
34:22Hi man, my friends.
34:31Congratulations, thank you.
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