Is Musk's Starlink a threat to the Amazon? | Unreported World

Описание: Unreported World is from Brazil where Elon Musk’s Starlink is transforming the lives of isolated tribes living in the Amazon. Reporter Guillermo Galdos travels deep inside the rainforest to find out if its internet revolution is for better or worse.

The Amazon is the internet’s final frontier, and the Javari Valley reserve is home to the largest concentration of uncontacted tribes in the world. But for those tribes choosing to embrace the technology, Starlink antennas have divided Marubo leaders who disagree on whether its immediate benefits outweigh the possible long-term loss of their culture, and way of life.

In the village of São Sebastião, over 800km by river from the nearest city, Galdos meets Cloves and his 13-year-old son Wany. Cloves introduced Starlink to the village believing the internet would enable access to healthcare and online lessons for their children. But the impact of having screens showing the outside world was immediate, and in just 18 months most of the village’s teenagers have already left.

On a boat patrol in an area renowned for the illegal smuggling of gold, timber and drugs, we learn how the indigenous communities are using Starlink to protect the Amazon’s precious resources. But criminals also use the technology to help their operations.

Director: Helene Cacace
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News

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