The people of Brazil's indigenous Xukuru nation are working to restore a thorn forest that was destroyed by agricultural expansion and deforestation. The thorn forest, which is a unique and threatened ecosystem, is home to a great diversity of plants and animals, and is part of the Xukuru's culture and spirituality. teleSUR
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00:00 Welcome back from the South.
00:02 In Brazil, a group of indigenous farmers are blending traditional knowledge with modern
00:06 science to create a new strategy for reforesting their ancestral land.
00:10 Our correspondent Brian Meir has the details.
00:15 In the Ororuba Hills in rural Pernambuco, residents of the Xucuru indigenous nation
00:20 are working to restore a thorn forest which has been devastated by decades of cattle ranching
00:25 by clearing invasive species from around trees and plants that are best adapted to the biome
00:29 Since we live in an area that doesn't rain much, today we are here in this reserve doing
00:37 the maintenance to favor the vegetation that thrives in a low-earth environment.
00:42 One of the first nations that ever came in contact with imperialist Portuguese colonizers,
00:48 for hundreds of years the Xucuru have fought to preserve their rich culture and religion,
00:52 which is centered on what they call "enchanted ecology."
00:56 Mixing ancient wisdom with modern science, they're creating a new variation of agroforestry.
01:05 We've adopted what we call "cosmonucleative regeneration."
01:10 We use sacred topography to identify what we call a "power point," which are portals
01:15 to our enchanted world.
01:18 It could be a certain tree, a river, or a boulder.
01:22 And we adapt this element as a central point, regenerating the forest around it.
01:29 As they regenerate the forest around them, the Xucuru are also working to reinstate traditional
01:35 eating habits and reintroduce sustainable crops that have been pushed out by monoculture
01:40 production and cattle ranching.
01:45 We incorporate, relieve, and reactive the memory of our ancestors by restoring traditional
01:50 agriculture and the memory of our seeds and our healing, using medicinal plants and tree
01:56 banks.
01:57 We protect Mother Nature by reforesting, caring for, preserving, and teaching future generations.
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