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Emptying the Skies (2013) Full Movie
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00:01:00The scales fell from my eyes.
00:01:03I suddenly realized that it wasn't just a people-filled world, it was also a bird-filled world.
00:01:10I had the experience of life suddenly getting much richer.
00:01:16I was more distracted, too, of course.
00:01:18I could no longer sit outside without trying to identify what I was hearing.
00:01:24I was seeing an entirely different side of the world with this awareness of birds.
00:01:32And for a long time, I cared about the environment in a very abstract way.
00:01:37But the problem with abstractly loving nature is that it quickly turns you into a misanthropist,
00:01:44because you see what human beings are doing to the planet.
00:01:47And yet, misanthropy is no way to live.
00:01:50So for a long time, I just gave up on environmentalism and didn't come back to it until I'd fallen
00:01:57in love with birds.
00:02:01Finding out, for instance, that there is a terrible problem in the Mediterranean with the killing of migratory birds,
00:02:07that I wanted to strike a blow on behalf of those birds that were dying in the Mediterranean.
00:02:34Yes, good morning, madam.
00:02:36My name is Andrea Rutigliano from CABs.
00:02:40CABs, the Association for the Protection of Birds.
00:02:43Yes, listen, we are in the area of Aios Antonios.
00:02:51Hello, good morning, sir.
00:02:52We are here, a group of persons to control the trapping for Ambelo-Vulia.
00:02:57And there are many, many, many trappers around.
00:03:02And I think we will have a problem in a few minutes, because people are quite aggressive.
00:03:07And we need your support.
00:03:09Can you say?
00:03:12Okay, thank you very much, sir.
00:03:13You own it, Re!
00:03:14What is it?
00:03:14Why are you doing that?
00:03:16Can you see anybody else coming in this farm?
00:03:19I know what job you're doing.
00:03:21You're looking for birds.
00:03:22I know what job you're doing.
00:03:22Don't think I don't know.
00:03:23No, no, no.
00:03:24My friend, this is my private business.
00:03:27In your garden, you let anyone to come.
00:03:30In your garden, I don't put traps for you.
00:03:33Never put traps in my garden.
00:03:34Even if you put, you let anyone to come.
00:03:37Yes.
00:03:38You have problem.
00:03:40Re, where are you from?
00:03:41From Italy.
00:03:42From Italy.
00:03:43I've been in Europe many times.
00:03:44Don't think I'm a farmer.
00:03:45This is Europe.
00:03:46Huh?
00:03:46This is Europe.
00:03:48This is Europe.
00:03:49You're a member of...
00:03:50Yes, yes.
00:03:50No, but listen.
00:03:51Yeah, I told them not to...
00:03:52I get crazy or not?
00:03:54No, no, you're not crazy.
00:03:55You're not crazy.
00:03:56You're not crazy.
00:03:56You're right.
00:03:56My friend, this is my private business.
00:03:59I'll show you the other thing.
00:04:00Okay, first time is a mistake.
00:04:02Second time is no mistake.
00:04:05Don't stop again.
00:04:06Now I'm gonna go...
00:04:28Some three to five billion birds summer in Europe and the western half of Asia.
00:04:38And then winter in Africa.
00:04:43Dispersing over thousands and thousands of miles.
00:04:49And they all have to funnel through just a few pinch points in the Mediterranean.
00:04:56You've got these incredibly tiny animals.
00:04:58They're just a couple of inches long.
00:05:01They're flying hundreds of miles in a night.
00:05:04Resting and refueling in the day.
00:05:06Flying hundreds of miles the next night.
00:05:09Five thousand miles altogether in some cases.
00:05:12And they will often end up in the exact same spot they were the year before.
00:05:17Sometimes the very same tree.
00:05:19We don't really entirely understand how they do it.
00:05:23We're talking about an absolutely unimaginable journey for an animal that weighs 20 grams.
00:05:31And that fuels up by gorging itself at the end of the summer.
00:05:37And the fact, of course, that they are so fat rich is what, unfortunately, makes them so attractive to trappers.
00:05:45If we go back a hundred years, it would have been a largely vegetarian diet.
00:05:49Meat would have been a special treat.
00:05:51So these songbirds were, in those days, a really important supplement of protein and fat.
00:05:59And people think, oh, well, you know, my granddad did it.
00:06:02What's wrong with that?
00:06:02It's a tradition.
00:06:03It's good.
00:06:04Yeah, your granddad did do it.
00:06:05But that was in a completely different context.
00:06:08These birds were not experiencing the population declines then that they're experiencing now.
00:06:17And this is the thing that the people who are still eating these trapped birds have not taken on board.
00:06:24It's very hard to quantify how many birds are being consumed as delicacies because it's very hush-hush.
00:06:31It's done on the quiet.
00:06:32It's illegal.
00:06:33But it's in the order of millions being eaten illegally every year.
00:07:08I'd made some bird-watching friends in Germany.
00:07:13And they sent me disturbing images that Cabs was putting out.
00:07:21And my first thought was, oh, here are some crackpots.
00:07:27I don't want to have anything to do with them.
00:07:29So I had an immediate negative hit off these guys.
00:07:34And it was only later when I tried to find people who were actually doing something aggressive in the Mediterranean
00:07:43and got to know Andrea particularly that I realized, yeah, well, they may be a little crazy, but the situation
00:07:51in the Mediterranean is enough to drive you crazy.
00:08:21My name is Andrea Rottigliano.
00:08:22But almost nobody goes on the field risking the lives of people, of volunteers trying to release the birds.
00:08:54People think that they have the right to catch birds, trap birds and kill birds.
00:09:00And we must make the poachers realize that the situation is not tolerated anymore, that there is a law and
00:09:08we want it to be implemented.
00:09:09We are taking the law in our hands because these laws are the most neglected laws.
00:09:15I don't like the idea I'm a vigilante or I'm a policeman.
00:09:19But the problem is we are running out of time, birds are disappearing, and I'm going to use every weapon
00:09:26I have to help them.
00:09:28Get out, I said, now, from my poverty because I'm very pissed off.
00:09:33Out from my fucking poverty now.
00:09:36Robot, come.
00:09:37We go, we go, we go.
00:09:38I said, no.
00:09:39We go, we go.
00:09:40Come here again.
00:09:41In your fucking life.
00:09:42Never.
00:09:43I said, never.
00:09:44Yes.
00:09:44If you ever.
00:09:45If you touch me.
00:09:46Honour, God, I will kill you here.
00:09:48Out of the police.
00:09:49Get down from my poverty now.
00:09:50I'm going.
00:09:50I'm going.
00:09:51Yeah, I said, I'm going now.
00:09:52I will count after training, you run.
00:09:54I said, run.
00:09:56Everybody, run.
00:09:57Water, run.
00:09:59Run.
00:10:00Three seconds.
00:10:01Go on, I will kill you.
00:10:02Three.
00:10:16This is the golden oriole.
00:10:19Chichi.
00:10:30According to the last report of the IUCN, this is the International Union for the Conservation
00:10:36of Nature, between 10 and 15 percent of the bird species of the world, of the entire world,
00:10:42are presently endangered.
00:10:44And among the species that presently are endangered, about half of the species are migrants.
00:10:50We can say there is about a handful which are very close to extinction.
00:10:56They could disappear within the next decade or decades.
00:10:59This is, for instance, the Hortolan bunting.
00:11:02This is the aquatic warbler.
00:11:05These are species where the numbers are so low that we are not sure whether these populations
00:11:10will have a chance to maintain and to survive.
00:11:14Bird trapping is an added pressure on top of all the other well-known pressures that birds
00:11:20face.
00:11:21Things like habitat degradation, habitat destruction, climate change.
00:11:25Birds face things like habitat degradation, habitat destruction, climate change.
00:11:30And all these things make migrant birds as a group particularly vulnerable.
00:11:38Habitat is just disappearing.
00:11:40That's bad enough.
00:11:42To have that happening and then also be killing half a billion birds a year on both sides of
00:11:48the Mediterranean deliberately, when they're already so banged up because of habitat loss,
00:11:53that's just obscene.
00:11:55They have a hard enough problem right now.
00:11:57When these birds are still hunted in relatively large numbers in Cyprus, in Malta or so, this
00:12:05is a threat to the total population, which is absolutely unnecessary.
00:12:09And that should be given up.
00:12:10Absolutely.
00:12:15Birds are the most attractive and most important group, not only of animals, but of creatures as
00:12:23a whole.
00:12:24Birds are, of course, fantastic colored individuals.
00:12:28But when you look at them, you really say, wow, when you see them.
00:12:33Birds have these fantastic movements.
00:12:35They can fly.
00:12:37They can swim.
00:12:40Birds have beautiful voices.
00:12:42Even when you are blind, even when you are in a dark room in a hospital and your ears
00:12:47are working, you can hear all the wonderful voices of birds singing.
00:12:52And I think the most important thing is birds are everywhere.
00:12:56They are our daily companions, regardless where you are.
00:13:01You can sit here.
00:13:02You can hear the birds somewhere here and there.
00:13:06This is why birds are so attractive.
00:13:09I love birds in all respects.
00:13:17This is it.
00:13:20It's a bunting, a sort of sparrow.
00:13:22In France, it's known as an autolan.
00:13:25And Bernard here has very kindly agreed to cook it for me.
00:13:29Now, let me just get this straight, Bernard.
00:13:31These birds migrate from Sweden to North Africa.
00:13:35You catch them in nets, then you drown them in Armagnac.
00:13:39It takes a breath.
00:13:40And then pluck them, and that's what we end up with here, yes?
00:13:45Yes.
00:13:45Great.
00:13:45Well, you get on with that, and I'll go up to the back dining room.
00:13:48Good appetite.
00:13:51I do have one question, actually, which I have to raise.
00:13:55The cruelty issue of it.
00:13:57Is it cruel?
00:13:58Do you think it's cruel to do this to these birds?
00:14:02Being thrown in some Armagnac is not, by the way, to die.
00:14:07How do we eat them, then?
00:14:08Because, I mean, there are lots of bones.
00:14:10All at once.
00:14:11You have to take the whole bird, put it in your mouth as hot as possible,
00:14:15not burning yourself, but as hot as possible.
00:14:17And that way, you can really enjoy all the flavors.
00:14:22To ensure you capture all the aromas,
00:14:24and because it can be quite a messy experience,
00:14:27devouring a fat sparrow, bones and all,
00:14:30you eat Autolan in a rather unusual way.
00:14:41How many letters of complaint.
00:14:43This could be my absolute record in terms of complaints.
00:14:47I don't speak.
00:14:48It's not really good.
00:14:50Better than the foie gras, even,
00:14:51because of that gaming foie gras taste.
00:14:55Well, thank you.
00:14:56Thank you very much, Bernard.
00:14:58Thanks, everybody.
00:14:59And, of course, the marvelous thing is,
00:15:00if I pay you for this,
00:15:02you'll be breaking the law.
00:15:04So, um...
00:15:05You didn't pay for them.
00:15:06It's not a gift from...
00:15:07No one can pay for Autolan.
00:15:10Exactly.
00:15:11So, I'm not going to start a trend now.
00:15:13Thank you very much.
00:15:17It was in Spain 2010, in Cyprus.
00:15:20We were conducting the camp there.
00:15:22Jonathan Franzen,
00:15:23a journalist from New York,
00:15:24a American-septimanale.
00:15:27And we had arranged a meeting.
00:15:29He wanted to see the limesticks and the birds.
00:15:31I told him that we had no problem
00:15:33to show plenty of them.
00:15:40We went to a place
00:15:41where there had been trouble the year before.
00:15:45Andrea knew there had been trouble the year before,
00:15:47and, of course, we went back there.
00:15:50We set out on what was a normal day,
00:15:53patrolling through a large area,
00:15:55looking for nets,
00:15:57looking for limesticks and so on.
00:15:59We first checked four or five places
00:16:02where we found the traps,
00:16:03we released the birds,
00:16:04we destroyed the traps.
00:16:06We had a fairly successful day.
00:16:08We saw poachers,
00:16:09we saw farmers,
00:16:10and then, in the end,
00:16:11I decided to go to a place
00:16:13where we had found, in 2009,
00:16:15many traps.
00:16:16And on our way in,
00:16:18this truck was leaving.
00:16:20We'd seen this pickup before,
00:16:21during the day,
00:16:21and they'd made rather rude gestures at us,
00:16:25including...
00:16:25Someone said we should leave.
00:16:27It was too dangerous,
00:16:30but I thought,
00:16:30well, it's just 50 meters further.
00:16:33We go there,
00:16:34we collect the traps,
00:16:34and we leave.
00:16:36Then, after that,
00:16:37there was another garden,
00:16:3850 meters further,
00:16:40and we stopped a couple of minutes,
00:16:42and this was the mistake.
00:16:44Truck returns.
00:16:45The guys of the pickup trap
00:16:47had the time to go home,
00:16:50collect some other people,
00:16:51and drive back.
00:16:52Screeches to a halt.
00:16:53And four men got out.
00:16:54Immediately started picking up rocks.
00:16:56They started throwing stones at us.
00:16:58I got hit twice, I think,
00:16:59once on the hip
00:17:00and once on the shoulder.
00:17:01Surprisingly difficult
00:17:02to dodge a flying rock.
00:17:05And then they started running towards us.
00:17:06In short order,
00:17:08Andrea and Dino
00:17:10were both getting beaten up.
00:17:11Three of them
00:17:11turned their attention on those two.
00:17:13Two of them
00:17:13started punching me on the back.
00:17:15They left the Englishman,
00:17:16David Conlon,
00:17:17alone,
00:17:18because he had two cell phones
00:17:20and he was threatening to sue them.
00:17:21I just told him,
00:17:22he'd better take his hands off me,
00:17:23otherwise he'd be in trouble
00:17:24for the rest of his life.
00:17:25Alex turned around
00:17:26and he all went all white
00:17:27and just began sprinting.
00:17:29Alex and Jonathan
00:17:29were at the back
00:17:30and they took off
00:17:31across the field.
00:17:32I ran for a while
00:17:33until I fell over
00:17:34and got hit in the face
00:17:35with a fence.
00:17:36The three guys
00:17:37had thrown Andrea
00:17:38and Dino to the ground.
00:17:39And then he started kicking.
00:17:41They were being kicked
00:17:42and beaten quite severely.
00:17:43He gave me
00:17:44one single punch here.
00:17:46My glasses.
00:17:48Including a video camera
00:17:50being smashed
00:17:51on Dino's head.
00:17:52It was very disturbing.
00:17:53Then the police turned up
00:17:55and everything quietened down.
00:17:59The police are here now.
00:18:02And they take
00:18:02these two firsts
00:18:03to the doctor.
00:18:05And I go now
00:18:06with Jonathan.
00:18:07To the police.
00:18:07Because we see it,
00:18:08we go and we make statements.
00:18:09Right.
00:18:09And Jonathan
00:18:10is an American journalist.
00:18:11So go and go and write
00:18:12something about
00:18:13this shameful situation.
00:18:14I believe you, I will.
00:18:16I see you, right?
00:18:18I'm not sure I would have
00:18:19the stomach to do
00:18:20what the cab as people do.
00:18:21But I admire them
00:18:23for doing it.
00:18:25They are bringing to light
00:18:28a violence that is hidden
00:18:30or a violence that is being
00:18:31visited on the natural world.
00:18:36and they are in effect
00:18:39trying to take some
00:18:40of the heat off
00:18:41the animals
00:18:42and put it on themselves.
00:18:44Once it becomes directed
00:18:45at the human being,
00:18:46once somebody gets beaten up
00:18:48and the camera gets smashed,
00:18:49then the world starts
00:18:49paying attention
00:18:50to this violence
00:18:51that is already out there
00:18:52but has been invisible.
00:18:53Oh, my God.
00:18:59Oh, my God.
00:19:37Today we walked
00:19:38the whole morning
00:19:39but we didn't find anything
00:19:40in the western part
00:19:41of the village.
00:19:42On the way there
00:19:44I had located in Google Earth
00:19:45at the beginning
00:19:46of this month
00:19:47of a good place
00:19:47and actually there was
00:19:48just one ottoman bunting
00:19:50and some traps.
00:19:53Andrea Rutigliano
00:19:54is a very close friend of mine
00:19:56and I know him
00:19:57since 15 years ago.
00:19:59Piero Liberati
00:20:0010 years,
00:20:02more or less.
00:20:04Friendship is,
00:20:05I think,
00:20:06essential in the job
00:20:07we do
00:20:08because if you go
00:20:09in a dangerous place
00:20:11I prefer going
00:20:12with people
00:20:13that I know
00:20:13and of course
00:20:15I think
00:20:15they feel the same
00:20:16for me.
00:20:19Sergio,
00:20:20mostly at the beginning,
00:20:21he was a source
00:20:23of inspiration
00:20:23for me
00:20:25and he has taught me
00:20:27so much.
00:20:28He is a very
00:20:29educated person.
00:20:31His contribution
00:20:32to the cause
00:20:33is emotional.
00:20:35The only thing
00:20:36he wants to do
00:20:36is to save birds
00:20:37and go out
00:20:38into the field
00:20:39and destroy
00:20:39the traps.
00:20:41It's only
00:20:42what he wants.
00:20:44When I'm in the field
00:20:45Piero is
00:20:46my reference point
00:20:47and I can trust
00:20:49him completely.
00:20:50If there is not
00:20:50Piero in the camp
00:20:52or somewhere else
00:20:53in the area
00:20:53I feel alone.
00:20:59Usually you say
00:21:00it's my right arm.
00:21:01Well,
00:21:01I'm left-handed
00:21:02so it would be
00:21:03my left hand.
00:21:08What Cubs tells
00:21:09is don't go
00:21:11inside private property.
00:21:13But if we talk
00:21:14about poaching
00:21:16we are talking
00:21:17about something
00:21:18which is not legal.
00:21:21From a legal
00:21:22point of view
00:21:23when you see
00:21:24a crime going on
00:21:26you have to do
00:21:27something.
00:21:27You ask the
00:21:28authorization
00:21:29to trespass
00:21:30a private property
00:21:31going in
00:21:32and trying
00:21:32to prevent
00:21:33crimes.
00:22:01Okay.
00:22:03Okay.
00:22:05Okay.
00:22:07Okay.
00:22:26It's faster, it's faster, okay, I cannot release this one.
00:22:39You see, they've cut the last finger of the bird, so it will never be able to fly.
00:22:45The problem is when the bird is badly injured and you have to decide what to do with it,
00:22:51it is alive, then it immediately starts its relationship with it.
00:22:58Sometimes it's really better to say, okay, I have to kill it.
00:23:00Go, go.
00:23:05It's the worst that can happen relating to birds in these situations.
00:23:09You feel hopeless and it tortures me, actually.
00:23:13It's the worst that can happen.
00:23:24It's the worst that can happen.
00:23:29Hello, ma'am.
00:23:31You're here, please.
00:23:32A television team.
00:23:35You're in my property.
00:23:37Yes.
00:23:38And there were some illegal actions.
00:23:40Listen, the birds, maybe they're not here.
00:23:43We had to leave them, but we left the material where it was.
00:23:46The material was illegal, which we used to catch protected birds.
00:23:50You know, it's...
00:23:52You know, it's...
00:23:53Wait.
00:23:54Yeah.
00:23:55It's okay, Marie.
00:23:57It's enough, René, stop.
00:23:59It's not enough.
00:24:01It's illegal, we knew it was...
00:24:03You can tell us!
00:24:04We knew it was illegal.
00:24:05It's illegal.
00:24:07It's illegal?
00:24:07Yes.
00:24:08Yes.
00:24:08Well, then...
00:24:10I'm calling the...
00:24:10I'm deprived, I'm deprived.
00:24:12It's fine.
00:24:13What have you done?
00:24:14The birds are flying.
00:24:16Yes, they're flying.
00:24:17Two of four are flying.
00:24:19The other are...
00:24:20You don't know what you've done.
00:24:22What do you do?
00:24:23I don't know what you've done.
00:24:25That's enough.
00:24:25It's enough, René, stop.
00:24:26And then you don't speak French, I don't know if you don't speak French.
00:24:29Yeah, yeah.
00:24:30We live now.
00:24:31There were some birds protected in a cage.
00:24:34We know they are protected because...
00:24:36Because the European law says they are...
00:24:39The law of the law.
00:24:40It's tolerated.
00:24:42It's tolerated.
00:24:43It's tolerated.
00:24:43It's tolerated.
00:24:45What you've seen is a report in Japan.
00:24:48In Japan.
00:24:49They say that if you are concerned about nature,
00:24:52we protect nature much more than you do.
00:24:54And you will not go far with such actions.
00:24:58And that you don't see the newspaper,
00:25:01you don't read what happens in the world,
00:25:02animals looted, thousands of animals looted,
00:25:04and we are just here for five ortolans.
00:25:07And you are bothering us or damaging us for these five ortolans first.
00:25:11And then I answered,
00:25:13Yes, but you just catch five.
00:25:15But your neighbor catch other five.
00:25:17And we have here some 1,000 trapping places.
00:25:20It makes a huge number.
00:25:23And if you think that these birds are threatened everywhere in Europe,
00:25:27the whole population is collapsing,
00:25:30I mean,
00:25:31that should make you think about what you are doing.
00:25:35And, of course, she didn't answer.
00:25:39They are provoking.
00:25:41You know, they...
00:25:42These may be gentle nature protectors,
00:25:45but they are not...
00:25:47They are not being un-provocative.
00:25:49They are deliberately in your face.
00:25:52It's not a black and white moral situation.
00:25:56It's more a dark gray, light gray moral situation.
00:25:59They are pushing it.
00:26:04The police arrived.
00:26:06First one car with two agents,
00:26:09and then two other cars who were suddenly surrounded by seven policemen.
00:26:13And they said,
00:26:14Be careful.
00:26:15If you work close to a farm or in a crop field,
00:26:18and the hunter finds you,
00:26:20they could shoot you.
00:26:21Of course, they will go to jail,
00:26:22but be careful.
00:26:24This is the situation.
00:26:24I know that they don't like to check in cars
00:26:28if they don't have a suspicion.
00:26:30So to be polite,
00:26:31I said,
00:26:31No, please check.
00:26:32I can open and show you everything.
00:26:34We didn't have anything to hide.
00:26:36But he saw our wine in the back of the car.
00:26:40He said that Sergio's wine was good,
00:26:42and Piro's wine was awful.
00:26:45It was poison, he said.
00:26:52I have got a master's degree in law.
00:26:55But my occupation is private banker
00:26:58in a European financial institution in Italy.
00:27:02I manage more or less 20 millions of euros.
00:27:08I like so much my work
00:27:11because it helped me to understand
00:27:14what is going on in the world.
00:27:16Because if you understand finance,
00:27:18mostly you can understand what is going on on the planet.
00:27:24I've got several hobbies.
00:27:27One of it is collecting cans.
00:27:30I can imagine that people looking at me
00:27:34have some difficulties in understanding me.
00:27:37I mean, because from a certain point of view,
00:27:39I collect cans for a few euros.
00:27:43And from another point of view,
00:27:44I have millions of euros of money of value from the customer.
00:27:50It's like I have two different lives.
00:27:53One is professional,
00:27:54and the other one is my personal passion.
00:27:59At the beginning, my interest in cans
00:28:02was maybe a question of money.
00:28:04I had no money
00:28:06because my dad died when I was really, really young.
00:28:12And so I saw it like a way of earning some money.
00:28:18Then I understood that it was an important thing to do
00:28:22to save energy and to save the planet
00:28:26and not to waste natural resources.
00:28:33All the money I get from recycling,
00:28:36I go then to the environmental charity, 100%.
00:28:39It's a way to take the money from the garbage
00:28:43and give it back to the nature.
00:28:51A lot of things changed in my life in the last year.
00:28:55This autumn, I was looking for ortolan traps in France
00:28:59with the cabs.
00:29:01When my girlfriend Cecilia gave me a ring and told me,
00:29:05Oh, Sergio, I have a good news to tell you.
00:29:08I'm pregnant.
00:29:11At the beginning, I have to be honest,
00:29:14quite shocked because I didn't want to.
00:29:16I never thought about having a child.
00:29:31I don't say that it's mine.
00:29:32It's quite radical,
00:29:34even though it's hospitable for everyone,
00:29:37but it's also that of other friends.
00:29:41This place was born in 2006.
00:29:45We created a foundation for the rights of animals.
00:29:50Pimpi!
00:29:52Bastian! Topino!
00:29:55Here at Vallevegan,
00:29:56everything you see
00:29:59is not of anyone,
00:30:01except of animals.
00:30:05In this moment,
00:30:06there are more than 100 animals free.
00:30:09But in six years,
00:30:11we were able to liberate
00:30:12for a million,
00:30:14among which,
00:30:16trying to cure them,
00:30:17to respect them the most possible
00:30:18and, especially,
00:30:19to liberate them.
00:30:22When we were here,
00:30:24fortunately,
00:30:25we were able to create a happy island.
00:30:30Sergio,
00:30:31who lives in the city,
00:30:34lives in Milan.
00:30:35When he arrived here,
00:30:37he was in this situation,
00:30:39surrounded by all these animals,
00:30:41as you can see,
00:30:42and he remained a little scared
00:30:45by all the animals around him.
00:30:46In the context,
00:30:47we started walking around him.
00:30:50We're working with an extravagant
00:30:52on the treasure,
00:30:53and then we cook everything
00:30:54in the oven first.
00:30:57After that,
00:30:57we produced the food from the base,
00:31:00with only zero risk.
00:31:03And just a little bit of an insural effort,
00:31:06but it's a lot more better.
00:31:09It is much better.
00:31:13I can say that my life has been a bit growing towards these issues,
00:31:17almost a radicalization.
00:31:19It has led me to create this place, to live this place,
00:31:23but always with a smile.
00:31:30I always move with more people and with more activism.
00:31:35I don't say I want to liberate animals,
00:31:38I want to liberate animals because they are already free,
00:31:40but I want to be able to remain free.
00:31:50Bastia!
00:32:02Eat everything!
00:32:04Eat everything!
00:32:10Cyprus.
00:32:11It's a really convenient stopping point, a really convenient refueling place for a lot of species of birds.
00:32:18Some of these species are coming from the Russian Arctic,
00:32:21and then some of them are wintering in South Africa.
00:32:25About 150 million birds coming through in autumn,
00:32:28maybe something like 100 million in spring.
00:32:31So it's an important stepping stone for a lot of species.
00:32:34And ambelobulla is the term used for the delicacy, which is trap birds.
00:32:41So it's a trap bird simply plucked and either boiled or roasted,
00:32:45or sometimes pickled and eaten whole.
00:32:48And a plate of a dozen birds will go from anything between 40 to 80 euros.
00:32:55Ambelobulla are the thing you order in a restaurant if you want to show off.
00:32:59You want to impress your friends.
00:33:01It's the Cyprus caviar.
00:33:13I'm cold, I'm cold, come on!
00:33:25Three over there.
00:33:27Can you see?
00:33:43I'm not a religious person in any meaningful sense, but the first time I saw a bird caught
00:33:51in a limestick, the line that flashed through my head was what St. Francis had said whenever
00:33:57he saw a wild animal in a cage. Oh, why did you let yourself be caught? The limesticks are,
00:34:06I think, a particularly cruel hunting method. First it got caught with its foot, and then
00:34:14it tried to use its wing to leverage, and the wing got stuck. So you can see how the very
00:34:20struggle to escape has gotten it ever more deeply caught. I think we can define as cruel
00:34:28forms of death that are not quick, painful, filled with anxiety. And it's hard to imagine
00:34:39a form of death for a bird that would be more filled with anxiety and more filled with pain
00:34:46than being caught in lime. These are birds that are hard to see normally. These birds are all
00:34:53about freedom of movement. And to have them right in front of you, to see them so hopelessly
00:35:01they gummed up.
00:35:06They gummed up.
00:35:25They punten by their heads. Please try and your eyes.
00:35:29They hate from moving. They mad at home, to the
00:35:36odepad, to the Floyd'ssınız! They didn't tell me how expensive they have to have taken
00:35:37Come on.
00:35:39Okay.
00:35:43Ciao.
00:35:44I'll be close.
00:35:54That's the other, not mine.
00:35:56That one is too much.
00:35:57That one is too much.
00:35:59That's good, it's good.
00:36:01That is good.
00:36:04Get me.
00:36:06I came in this place
00:36:10before
00:36:1250 years.
00:36:14And I still come.
00:36:15Since 50 years?
00:36:17I have my son
00:36:20like you.
00:36:21He comes with me
00:36:23for this thing.
00:36:25Yes.
00:36:27To catch birds?
00:36:28Yes. Okay.
00:36:30My son
00:36:31it was
00:36:33the aeroplane in Athens
00:36:35going down
00:36:37my son, his wife
00:36:39and two children.
00:36:41So the plane crashed?
00:36:43Yes, the aeroplane going down
00:36:44and my son
00:36:46and his wife
00:36:48and two children.
00:36:49died.
00:36:52And every morning
00:36:54now I come here
00:36:55and I look for him.
00:36:57For your son?
00:36:57Yes.
00:36:59I take two, three, four
00:37:01birds only to eat
00:37:03and only to remember my before life.
00:37:06And you come to
00:37:07to make problem to me.
00:37:09I don't sell this thing.
00:37:10I come only to remember my...
00:37:14You think I tell
00:37:15a lie?
00:37:16No, no, no, no, no.
00:37:19Six years now, no, you're safe.
00:37:21At the point.
00:37:21When we want to save the birthday
00:37:22we would like you to stop
00:37:24to change,
00:37:24to change the tradition,
00:37:25to change...
00:37:26No, no, please.
00:37:29No possible to...
00:37:32because many years
00:37:33and I have problems.
00:37:35Do you understand?
00:37:36Yes, I understand.
00:37:37Okay, okay, listen.
00:37:38He lost my son
00:37:39and I come here
00:37:40to see him,
00:37:41to look for him,
00:37:42look the other,
00:37:44look to remember him...
00:37:45No, no, no,
00:37:46and let's go.
00:37:46Don't give you a good place
00:37:47and not give him.
00:37:48Maybe with a network?
00:37:49You don't understand!
00:37:51We understand we're here
00:37:52but we don't understand here.
00:37:54Listen,
00:37:54we understand from
00:37:55a human point of view.
00:37:57But this is our job, unfortunately.
00:38:11Let's go.
00:38:14Bye-bye.
00:38:45Bye-bye.
00:39:00It is a problem, yes.
00:39:02This land here is belong to me.
00:39:04We live this 1,000 years here.
00:39:06That's all. Things change.
00:39:07You born 20 years and your family is no good living.
00:39:11There's no birth like 1,000 years ago.
00:39:14You cannot do the same thing.
00:39:16You do your job now?
00:39:17No, I'm not. This is not a job.
00:39:20I work in a bank. This is not my job.
00:39:21You work in a bank? Yes, I work in a bank.
00:39:23This is a holiday for me.
00:39:25I spend my holiday to do this. You're crazy.
00:39:27I'm crazy.
00:39:28I tell you something very friendly.
00:39:31I'm telling you very friendly as well.
00:39:32And me too.
00:39:34You will find something very bad in Cyprus one time.
00:39:37One time? One time.
00:39:39Are you trying to fight a lot?
00:39:40No, no, no. Everybody discussed about your company.
00:39:46Everybody.
00:39:47And I'm telling you very very friendly.
00:39:49Don't do this.
00:39:51If you have family, if you have...
00:39:53We have family.
00:39:54Wives.
00:39:54I do, I do.
00:39:55You have children.
00:39:56No, no, no.
00:39:57You don't have children?
00:39:58Who knows? Who knows? Who knows?
00:40:00You know, you are not in your country.
00:40:02I know.
00:40:03Be careful inside.
00:40:04I'm always careful.
00:40:06Be very, very careful.
00:40:07Everybody has to die. Everybody has to die.
00:40:09Switch it off.
00:40:10Switch it off.
00:40:10Switch it off.
00:40:13It's like we are going nowhere.
00:40:15And the size of the problem is so big.
00:40:20You save thousands of birds, but they kill millions of birds.
00:40:24We don't change the attitude.
00:40:27We risk our lives.
00:40:29We risk our lives every day.
00:40:31So what's the point? What's the point doing that?
00:40:39What is this like?
00:40:41We should use our spare time, by the way.
00:40:47Having sex, maybe.
00:40:49Reading books.
00:40:50I never have the time to read a book.
00:41:07The bird is just feeling pain on one wing.
00:41:10Normally it's a night to recover completely.
00:41:13So we will release the bird tomorrow morning probably.
00:41:19This famous ambelopulian.
00:41:36I'm cooking like in Cipro for Andrea and Sergio
00:41:40because Andrea has the head always in chaos.
00:41:45Computers, telephones, police.
00:41:49While Sergio...
00:41:50It's better not to cook,
00:41:52because as he himself says,
00:41:53at home he takes care of his mother.
00:41:57So Sergio, as a kid,
00:41:59we never cook.
00:42:00Never cook.
00:42:02No, no, I'm not stupid.
00:42:03I'm informed.
00:42:04It's different.
00:42:05It doesn't help at all.
00:42:10It doesn't...
00:42:11It doesn't...
00:42:17Okay.
00:42:19Then, hear you later, mate.
00:42:20Yeah.
00:42:21Take care.
00:42:22Ciao.
00:42:23Ciao, ciao.
00:42:24Ciao, ciao.
00:42:2510 minutes.
00:42:26It's okay, right?
00:42:27It's okay.
00:42:32Every day we are threatened with death.
00:42:36We had asked officially,
00:42:37one month ago,
00:42:38to have the support of our police officer,
00:42:41to our team,
00:42:42and at the highest level,
00:42:43they answered what we can do
00:42:45if you tell us in advance where you are operating,
00:42:47we will send a car and a patrol of the police
00:42:50in the immediate proximity of the area where we operate.
00:42:52So you call them and they arrive immediately.
00:42:55But today, they downgraded the promises.
00:42:57What they will do is,
00:42:59if you get a problem,
00:42:59you call the local police station
00:43:01and they will send the patrol.
00:43:02It will take, as usual,
00:43:0330, 40 minutes.
00:43:05If they arrive on time,
00:43:07they will save our lives.
00:43:09If they don't arrive on time,
00:43:10it will be too late.
00:43:12Atkinson,
00:43:12silence.
00:43:13Silence.
00:43:19If we come to do the car and complete the car with cars,
00:43:22but we will have to be the car with cars.
00:43:24We'll have to check out the car.
00:43:35That's awesome.
00:43:41In the night, the advantage for us is that we are invisible.
00:43:48The problem is, on the other side, the danger is that trappers are invisible.
00:43:55It's like you don't breathe because you don't want them to hear you
00:43:58and because you are in a sort of state of tension until the end of the operation.
00:44:10Dogs. I really hate dogs in the night because they do exactly what you don't want them to do.
00:44:15Betray you and tell their owners where you are.
00:44:40I don't care.
00:44:42You don't care.
00:44:45You suck.
00:44:52The idea must be getting better.
00:45:09A little aqua.
00:45:18Ciao, ciao.
00:45:20Bye-bye.
00:45:38You have all these privileges, and what do you choose to do with all of your free time?
00:45:42And in the case of Andrea Rutigliano and some of the others, what do you choose to do with your
00:45:46entire life?
00:45:47You choose to try to help the most helpless, even more helpless than human beings.
00:45:55These birds, you know, they are locked into their migration patterns.
00:45:58They have to do this.
00:45:59And the great thing about birds, to me, is you let them go, you've freed them, they don't look back
00:46:07and thank you.
00:46:09All they want to be is away.
00:46:11They do not want to be around people.
00:46:13They want to get away.
00:46:30To listen to a bird song is perfect for me.
00:46:34I don't need a binocular.
00:46:36I'm a bird watcher who forgets his binocular always.
00:46:44It was 1988, was the first time I've been here, and we had every year big trouble.
00:46:53Broken windows, smashed cars, and some broken bones.
00:46:58There were much more traps and much more nets.
00:47:01So the situation for the birds was much worse here in this area.
00:47:06And we have about 20,000 to 30,000 poachers and hunters here in this area, in this small area.
00:47:14And that means it was really very dangerous, and we had lots of serious incidents.
00:47:21This parking lot is filled up with blood of CAPS members.
00:47:25It was 20 years ago.
00:47:27Eight of us found about six or 700 traps.
00:47:32And when we turned back, the street was blocked with cars of hunters, 40 to 50 hunters.
00:47:38And they came with sticks and with guns, and they hit us all.
00:47:41They broke my nose, and we had two other serious injuries.
00:47:44It was really bad.
00:47:48This is the place where Candela was shot in the face.
00:47:51This is the place where a car was shot while driving down.
00:48:00These valleys are one of the favorite migration routes.
00:48:04And it was from the 14th century, 15th century, when some monks here in Bergamo created for the first time
00:48:12the trapping installation with mist nets, called Roccolo.
00:48:18So the killing of millions of birds during the migration was something that was invented here
00:48:24by the monks first, and then became something widespread in the whole area.
00:48:29That's why two, three of the most famous Italian weapons industry are located in Brescia,
00:48:38and why the politicians here support fully this culture.
00:48:43Oh, by the way, this is the Vereta industry, where weapons are made for hunting and for war.
00:48:58This is a boat trap from northern Italy.
00:49:01We had these traps in nearly every country in Europe, but now it's extinct everywhere.
00:49:07We have it only in Italy.
00:49:08And this trap is fixed on a stick, and here are some berries.
00:49:17We have this small perch fixed in the trap, and if a bird will reach the berries, it can't sit
00:49:30down here and not here because it's too thin.
00:49:33So it tries to sit on the perch, and what happens then is that the bird is being trapped with
00:49:42the legs in this kind of snare, which has lots of power.
00:49:47And what happens is that the bones were broken in a thousand pieces, so the bird is not hanging only
00:49:54upside down in the trap.
00:49:55It hangs there with two broken legs in lots of pieces, so this is extremely painful.
00:50:08You see here, the blood of Elenorbin, some days old.
00:50:17This man has been caught by me three times every year.
00:50:22He sets the traps here, always the same place, always here, up there and up there where I want to
00:50:28go, exactly around this path, which is called the Poacher's Path.
00:50:34So, I don't know what you can do here.
00:50:36Actually, according to the law, you should go to jail, because if you do that twice, you should be fine
00:50:42to jail, but somehow, he's still out, and he's the man you saw up there with it, and he's the
00:50:49hunter, of course, as well, of this hunting height, so he shoots there legally, and he traps here illegally.
00:50:57Now we go to the other side of the mountain, without being seen.
00:51:21When we arrived here in the late 80s and in the 90s, we found boat traps, even visible from the
00:51:28main road.
00:51:29We found nets and decoys, illegal decoys, in the yards of the houses, in the backyards.
00:51:34When we crossed a village, people shouted and yelled at us.
00:51:44Slowly, we have worked on different levels, on the media level, and we work on the political level.
00:51:50So, this situation has changed.
00:51:52Trapping has decreased a lot.
00:51:55It has taken 20 years, but the real milestone was when the cooperation with the authorities started.
00:52:08In this period, we arrived at about 30 braconieri, because it's a typical and traditional meal, that of the Polenta
00:52:21and Osei.
00:52:24I didn't thought 20 or 25 years ago that it can happen, that it would be possible to change the
00:52:31minds of the people.
00:52:32But together with the police, together with the authorities, together with the media, with the press, it worked.
00:52:40When you are home and you know that there are traps, the woods, killing birds, protective species, the birds you
00:52:47love, the birds you want to help.
00:52:48And you know that you have the chance to go out in the field and destroy the traps and release
00:52:55the birds.
00:52:56A great feeling to come back home and say, I have destroyed 300 traps today.
00:53:00And this, you say, this mountain has been cleaned up.
00:53:05A great feeling to come back home and say, you have the largestempossctions.
00:53:07A great feeling of what I have to happen and say, it's not going to do when we come.
00:53:08... otherwise I look at all the fortunes.
00:53:24Mmm... she likes it...
00:53:27You like it?
00:53:28You like it?
00:53:29Mmm... sugar!
00:53:37This is great when you do this job, you start a sort of communication with animals, maybe
00:53:47because they are weak, they are not so afraid, or they are so afraid that they accept this
00:53:54basic communication with them, even if they are wild animals, for you.
00:54:28When I was 24, I made an application to a wild animals rescue center, and I was accepted.
00:54:37I was in charge of all the animals there, and there were some 200, 300 animals to take
00:54:42care for their, mostly were birds.
00:54:46It was one of the best experiences in my life.
00:54:49The problem was that I was so engaged that I completely neglected myself.
00:54:57I was just living for the animals, just devoting myself to the animals.
00:55:02And at the end, I lost a girlfriend.
00:55:05I really understood I was going mad somehow.
00:55:10Three of the animals I cared for during this period were unforgettable.
00:55:18The red deer, together with the raw deer, they came when they were orphans.
00:55:23I gave them milk for the first time.
00:55:26We used to spend the night together, I went out in the forest to sleep with them, because
00:55:31I wanted them to get used to be alone in the forest.
00:55:33Then when there was a car crossing, I tried to teach them to be afraid of the cars.
00:55:39And I ate the grass together with them, because I wanted to teach them which was the best guts.
00:55:47I really think that to animalize yourself, it's not a crime.
00:55:52It's great, because you find the common background all mammals have.
00:55:59And the third animal during this time was a sparrowhawk.
00:56:04When he came, I knew I had to give him just meat three times a day, four times a day.
00:56:08It was growing bigger, I put him in a bigger cage.
00:56:12And one day I was throwing food in the cage, and he flew away.
00:56:20I was not prepared to feed the bird, he needed time to understand how to feed.
00:56:26And two days later in the morning, I was sleeping there in the forest, I hear his call, like,
00:56:30beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
00:56:32And he comes to me bedding for food.
00:56:35So I go with the usual food, he takes it and flies away.
00:56:40After five hours he comes back again on the top of the tree.
00:56:43I get the chick, I throw it in the air, and he catches it in the air and goes away.
00:56:50We did this game for one week, and then we saw that he started chasing birds on his own.
00:56:59Slowly, slowly, slowly, he became independent and eventually left.
00:57:05That moment when you have the feeling, you have a communication with the animals, they
00:57:09understand you, you understand them perfectly, and still, they are wild animals.
00:57:14This was Patrick, actually.
00:57:41This was Patrick, actually.
00:57:45Is returning to Italy, notch,вет, noré, noré.
00:57:47I don't know.
00:58:40I don't know.
00:58:44Oh, the vultures.
00:58:46I saw them.
00:58:48See the vulture?
00:58:49They're circling.
00:58:58Oh, I bet.
00:59:02Wait a minute.
00:59:04Five minutes earlier.
00:59:06It's still warm?
00:59:07It's very warm.
00:59:08It died five minutes before we came.
00:59:11It's probably one of the flock we saw.
00:59:14Sure.
00:59:17Oh, it's completely smashed.
00:59:19It's in the brick.
00:59:21The birds go in the trap, lured by the bait, by the berries, and they brush these two sticks
00:59:28by moving the wing, the tail, and the whole construction collapses.
00:59:37You can really see the part of the bird where the stone crashed.
00:59:40It's totally flat, the back, like a piece of paper, nearly.
00:59:45And the rest of the bird was not smashed.
00:59:49You can see the head was out of the trap, so I hope that it was killed immediately and
00:59:54not tortured for hours.
00:59:57Such a nice bird.
00:59:59One out of three million thrushes shot or trapped in France every year.
01:00:04And it's such a shame, because we invest such a lot of money and spare time to protect
01:00:08these species.
01:00:10And here they are tortured and trapped for nothing, for the cooking pot.
01:00:51Okay, this is a mistletrush.
01:00:52It's still alive, and I'm now trying to release it.
01:00:57But first, I want to check whether we can...
01:00:59Well, don't hold him from the wing.
01:01:01If he can, he can.
01:01:03If he doesn't, we'll get him back.
01:01:09Oh, shit.
01:01:10He's on the block.
01:01:12No, we can't.
01:01:13It's a mistletrush.
01:01:15You see the...
01:01:19This is not broken.
01:01:20It's injured.
01:01:22Come on, come on, come on.
01:01:29Wow, beautiful.
01:01:32The wing is okay?
01:01:33Yeah, I think it's okay.
01:01:34If he doesn't have any problem on the back, on the spine wall.
01:01:39Let me check the other wing.
01:01:40Come, sure, sure.
01:01:43We can try to release it.
01:01:46You ready to?
01:01:46But here.
01:01:47Oh, no, there's only felt.
01:01:48That's okay.
01:01:50Let's try to release it.
01:01:52Are you ready?
01:01:53I'm ready.
01:01:54Are you ready?
01:01:56No, no way.
01:02:05Problem is the back, the spine bone.
01:02:08I will, I will go behind the bushes in the back.
01:02:16So, our gentleman.
01:02:29This is the part of the work I don't like.
01:02:32If it were just the leg, you could fly away.
01:02:35And then hopping on the ground, and maybe in two weeks, it would be okay.
01:02:39But if they lie like that, the problem is in the back, in the spine bone, you see, I think.
01:02:45So, there is nothing to do.
01:02:48That's dead.
01:02:58There was no chance to survive for this bird, so I put an end to its misery.
01:03:14The problem with really caring about something is you can get your heart broken.
01:03:18Really caring gets you involved.
01:03:21And when you're involved, even if you fail, yeah, it kills you to fail.
01:03:26But paradoxically, the worst of that sort of sick anger and rage go away.
01:03:32And you are just on to the next problem.
01:03:38The situation with trapping in Cyprus is extreme, and it's getting worse.
01:03:42So, something needs to be done about it.
01:03:51Ambelopulla, it's something that is now very clearly linked, and everyone admits this, to the underworld.
01:03:57To mafia-style gangs that are also involved in prostitution rackets, in gambling.
01:04:04In drugs.
01:04:05And this is part of their portfolio.
01:04:09We found a couple of days ago, the limestick set on the pavement.
01:04:13And this is like a signal to say, we know that you're here.
01:04:17And this is some sort of mafia message, some mafia communication.
01:04:22We must consider that the bigger is the damage we make to them.
01:04:26And the bigger, the more dangerous, or more aggressive the response can be.
01:04:51This is part of what they do.
01:04:53This is part of their illegal money-making business.
01:04:55Because there is just so much money you can make out of trapping.
01:05:04It's being done on an industrial scale, and it's being done using non-traditional methods, such as mist nets.
01:05:20The peak season, these trappers can be catching tens of thousands of birds in a single night.
01:05:36What's about the other net?
01:05:37Let's go, let's go.
01:05:39Let's go.
01:05:40Come on, come on.
01:05:49So, what we're going to do is panic, because even today, in 2012, there are some states
01:06:05members where these graves attacks happen to nature, to children, they are a patrimonio
01:06:12and, naturally, they must be translated into concrete actions and one of the concrete
01:06:18that I want to do is to bring to the European Commission of the European Commission
01:06:21of Potocinic what I saw, what I found, so that the European Union intervenes
01:06:30in front of the Republic of Cipro.
01:06:34In case Cyprus does go to the European Court, what is the possible fine that Cyprus
01:06:41would like to pay?
01:06:42What is the penalty?
01:06:44The penalty?
01:06:46The penalty?
01:06:48The penalty?
01:06:48The penalty?
01:06:48The penalty?
01:06:50The penalty?
01:06:51The penalty?
01:06:54The penalty?
01:06:56The penalty?
01:06:57The penalty?
01:07:02The penalty?
01:07:21The penalty?
01:07:24danger, they still try to write amendments to the law, trying to keep in the middle way
01:07:29so that, okay, the ecologists get this, but the hunters get this.
01:07:33We have now, since about 50 years, the so-called red lists of declining and decreasing species
01:07:42of animals and plants.
01:07:44And more than 100 countries have signed many contracts that they now will take care that
01:07:52the situation for these plants and for these animals is improving.
01:07:56But in fact, nothing is getting better at any point in the world.
01:08:01The situation is deteriorating, deteriorating, deteriorating.
01:08:05There is not the slightest sign of any improvement.
01:08:09We still are in the stage of absolutely insufficient attempts to do at least something.
01:08:19It's close to stupid.
01:08:34Yesterday I was talking to Alex and I was depressed or frustrated because of the size of the problem
01:08:44and I was telling you, we are not making any difference here now.
01:08:47The situation is as worse as usual, as bad as usual.
01:08:51And he said, don't worry.
01:08:53I mean, he has a longer experience than I have.
01:08:56He said, don't worry.
01:08:56I mean, it's a long, long, long process.
01:09:00In ratio took 25 years before we could see the first improvement.
01:09:04Just have to consider very well what's the best move to do, the best strategies, how to invest
01:09:12our energies, our volunteering power, our money.
01:09:17And we'll find a way out of this problem.
01:09:20We'll find a way to improve it.
01:09:32In Italy we started 30 years ago.
01:09:38And since then many things have changed and the culture have changed.
01:09:44You change the culture, not by writing essays or reports or just with words and texts, but
01:09:52with your example, with your body example.
01:09:55By showing the people that you care with your actions.
01:10:26I know that to see the one bird's life, it doesn't matter.
01:10:30It makes a difference when there are thousands or millions slaughtered somewhere else.
01:10:34But for us, and for me especially, to release a bird from a cage or for a net where the
01:10:40bird
01:10:40is perfect, it can fly, it's like to make reversible something that was irreversible, to give back
01:10:47the life to someone who is condemned to death.
01:10:52You can take away everything from me, but if I am not allowed to free the birds that I find
01:10:59in a trap, it's really difficult to get the energy to do this work.
01:11:04It's more than joy.
01:11:06It's actually like everything makes sense now.
01:11:10You free yourself at the same time.
01:11:36My father told me that changing 1% is better than nothing.
01:11:40At the beginning, I didn't understand the meaning.
01:11:441% is almost nothing.
01:11:46But it's not nothing.
01:11:47Because you give a message from people.
01:11:49If I do 1%, he does 1%, the other guy does 1%, my neighbor does 1%, we are close to
01:11:565%, 10%, 20%.
01:11:59Things can change if you put passion in what you do.
01:12:02So, this is the secret for me.
01:12:05Very good.
01:12:09Very good.
01:12:14I feel extremely satisfied, I mean.
01:12:17Exactly, extremely satisfied.
01:12:19Because tomorrow we will free them all.
01:12:21This is the reward for all the search, all the time we spend.
01:12:25And all the energy put in walking for nothing, for nothing, for hours.
01:12:31And this is the best reward for all of us.
01:12:34Tomorrow you go back to the wild.
01:12:37Back into the wild.
01:12:40Incredible, beautiful bird.
01:12:57From a biological perspective, it makes no difference if you rescue 100 or 1,000 or even 50,000 birds.
01:13:05But there is something to be said for a way of being, a habit of being that is about service,
01:13:12helping some other creature.
01:13:15You liberate a little bird and it flies north and has a family in Northern Europe.
01:13:20And that's not a human being.
01:13:25But you've done a mitzvah.
01:13:31I see the cabs people as performing love.
01:13:36They love these animals and they are performing it.
01:13:41And they're performing it for its own sake.
01:13:44You're not necessarily thinking about the big picture.
01:13:47You're just saying, I don't want this beautiful animal dying in limesticks and horrible snares.
01:13:53And what do you do?
01:13:55You just, the first instinct is reach in and stop it.
01:14:03At the deepest level, they are performing love for the animals.
01:14:10That was another Oriole, I believe.
01:14:37So...
01:14:51The Lord, you have to go to the animals, you have to go to others.
01:14:55But this was anotheryi.
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