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Sebastião Salgado - Photojournalist
Sebastião Salgado captures the dignity of the dispossessed through large-scale, long-term projects.

Why you should listen

A gold miner in Serra Pelada, Brazil; a Siberian Nenet tribe that lives in -35°C temperatures; a Namibian gemsbok antelope. These are just a few of the subjects from Sebastião Salgado’s immense collection of work devoted to the world’s most dispossessed and unknown.

Brazilian-born Salgado, who shoots only using Kodak film, is known for his incredibly long-term projects, which require extensive travel and extreme lifestyle changes. Workers took seven years to complete and contained images of manual laborers from 26 countries, while Migrations took six years in 43 different countries on all seven continents. Most recently Salgado completed Genesis, an ambitious eight-year project that spanned 30 trips to the world’s most pristine territories, land untouched by technology and modern life. Among Salgado’s many travels for Genesis was a two-month hike through Ethiopia, spanning 500 miles with 18 pack donkeys and their riders. In the words of Brett Abbott, a Getty Museum curator, Salgado’s approach can only be described as “epic.”

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Sebastião Salgado: The silent drama of photography

Sebastião Salgado: Sebastião Salgado: Argazkigintzaren drama isila.

Filmed: 2013-02-26

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Sebastião Salgado, Ekonomian doktorea, 30 urte zituela ekin zion argazkigintzari. Baina lana obsesioa bihurtu zen. Urtetan zehar landutako proiektuek ederki azaltzen dute istorio global baten gizatasun aldea, gehienetan heriotza, hondamendia edo gainbehera dakartzan istorioa. Hemen kontatzen digu bere burua ia akabatzera eraman zion lanbideari buruzko istorio sakon eta pertsonala eta bere azken lanaren, Genesis izenekoaren irudi hunkigarriak erakusten dizkigu. Proiektu honetan, munduko ahaztutako jende eta lekuak erakusten ditu.

Sebastião Salgado - Photojournalist
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I'm not sure that every person here

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Ez dakit hemen zaudetenak

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is familiar with my pictures.

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nire argazkiak ezagutzen dituzuen.

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I want to start to show just a few pictures to you,

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Zenbait argazki erakusten hasiko naiz

00:22

and after I'll speak.

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eta gero egingo dut hitz.

00:57

I must speak to you a little bit of my history,

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Nire bizitzari buruz
zerbait kontatu behar dizuet,

01:01

because we'll be speaking on this

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berari buruz jardungo naizelako
nire hitzaldi honetan.

01:03

during my speech here.

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Brasilen jaio nintzen 1944an,

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I was born in 1944 in Brazil,

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in the times that Brazil was not yet a market economy.

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Brasilen oraindik
merkatu ekonomiarik ez zegoen garaian.

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I was born on a farm,

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Landetxe batean jaio nintzen,

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a farm that was more than 50 percent rainforest [still].

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bere lurren %50 baino gehiago
oihana zen oraindik.

01:20

A marvelous place.

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Leku zoragarria.

01:21

I lived with incredible birds, incredible animals,

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Txori eta animalia harrigarriekin bizi nintzen.

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I swam in our small rivers with our caimans.

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Gure errekatxoetan
kaimanekin egiten nuen igeri.

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It was about 35 families that lived on this farm,

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Landetxe hartan 35 familia bizi ziren

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and everything that we produced on this farm, we consumed.

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eta landetxean ekoiztutako guztia
kontsumitzen genuen.

01:37

Very few things went to the market.

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Oso gauza gutxi zihoan merkatura.

01:39

Once a year, the only thing that went to the market

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Urtean behin,
merkatura joaten zen gauza bakarra

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was the cattle that we produced,

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guk hazitako behi-azienda zen.

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and we made trips of about 45 days

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45 eguneko bidaiak egiten genituen

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to reach the slaughterhouse,

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hiltegira heltzeko

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bringing thousands of head of cattle,

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milaka behi garraiatzen,

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and about 20 days traveling back

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eta beste 20 egun

01:53

to reach our farm again.

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berriro landetxera bueltatzeko.

01:56

When I was 15 years old,

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15 urte nituenean,

01:58

it was necessary for me to leave this place

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leku hura utzi behar izan nuen

02:01

and go to a town a little bit bigger -- much bigger --

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hiri askoz handiago batera joateko.

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where I did the second part of secondary school.

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Han amaitu nuen bigarren hezkuntza.

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There I learned different things.

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Han hainbat gauza ikasi nituen.

02:11

Brazil was starting to urbanize, industrialize,

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Brasil urbanizatzen,
industrializatzen hasia zen,

02:14

and I knew the politics. I became a little bit radical,

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eta politikan sartu nintzen.
Zertxobait erradikal egin nintzen.

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I was a member of leftist parties,

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Ezkerreko alderdien kidea nintzen,

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and I became an activist.

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eta aktibista egin nintzen.

02:24

I [went to] university to become an economist.

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Unibertsitatera joan nintzen
Ekonomia ikastera.

02:27

I [did] a master's degree in economics.

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Ekonomian masterra egin nuen.

Eta nire bizitzaren gauza garrantzitsuena
orduan gertatu zen baita ere.

02:30

And the most important thing in my life

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02:33

also happened in this time.

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Neska zoragarri bat ezagutu nuen,

02:35

I met an incredible girl

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who became my lifelong best friend,

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bizitza osorako lagunik minena bihurtu zena
eta orain arte egin dudan gauza guztien partaide,

02:41

and my associate in everything that I have done till now,

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nire emaztea, Lélia Wanick Salgado.

02:45

my wife, Lélia Wanick Salgado.

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Brasil guztiz erradikalizatu zen.

02:48

Brazil radicalized very strongly.

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We fought very hard against the dictatorship,

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Diktaduraren kontra gogor borrokatu ginen,

02:53

in a moment it was necessary to us:

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guretzako beharrezkoa zen momentu baten.

02:55

Either go into clandestinity with weapons in hand,

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Edo klandestinitatera joan, armak eskuan,

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or leave Brazil. We were too young,

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edo Brasiletik irten. Gazteegiak ginen

03:01

and our organization thought it was better for us to go out,

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eta gure erakundeak erabaki zuen
alde egitea komeni zitzaigula.

Frantziara joan ginen.
Bertan Ekonomian doktoretza egin nuen.

03:06

and we went to France,

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where I did a PhD in economics,

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Léila became an architect.

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Léila arkitekto egin zen.

03:11

I worked after for an investment bank.

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Gero inbertsio-banku baten aritu nintzen.

03:14

We made a lot of trips, financed development,

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Bidaia asko egin genituen.
Garapena finantzatu genuen,

03:17

economic projects in Africa with the World Bank.

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Munduko Bankuarekin
ekonomia egitasmoak Afrikan.

03:20

And one day photography made a total invasion in my life.

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Egun baten argazkigintzak
nire bizitza guztiz inbaditu zuen.

03:24

I became a photographer,

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Argazkilari egin nintzen,
dena utzi eta argazkilari egin nintzen.

03:25

abandoned everything and became a photographer,

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03:27

and I started to do the photography

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Niretzako garrantzizkoak ziren argazkiak
egiteari ekin nion.

03:30

that was important for me.

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03:33

Many people tell me that you are a photojournalist,

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Askok esaten didate
argazki-kazetaria naizela,

03:35

that you are an anthropologist photographer,

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argazkilari-antropologoa naizela,

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that you are an activist photographer.

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argazkilari-aktibista naizela.

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But I did much more than that.

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Baina hori baino askoz ere gehiago
egin nuen.

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I put photography as my life.

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Argazkigintza nire bizitza egin nuen.

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I lived totally inside photography

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Argazkigintzan murgilduta bizi nintzen
epe luzeko proiektuak garatzen.

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doing long term projects,

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Zenbait argazki erakutsi nahi dizuet.

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and I want to show you just a few pictures

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of -- again, you'll see inside the social projects,

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Nik parte hartu nuen gizarte proiektuen barrua
ikusiko duzue.

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that I went to, I published many books

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Liburu asko argitaratu ditut
argazki hauekin,

04:02

on these photographs,

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but I'll just show you a few ones now.

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baina batzuk bakarrik erakutsiko dizkizuet.

04:54

In the '90s, from 1994 to 2000,

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90eko hamarkadan,
1994tik 2000ra,

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I photographed a story called Migrations.

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"Migrazioak" istorioaren argazkiak
egin nituen.

05:01

It became a book. It became a show.

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Liburu bat egin zen.
Erakusketa bat egin zen.

05:03

But during the time that I was photographing this,

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Baina nik argazki hauek
egiten nituen bitartean,

05:06

I lived through a very hard moment in my life, mostly in Rwanda.

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sasoi oso gogorra bizi izan nuen,
batez ere Ruandan.

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I saw in Rwanda total brutality.

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Erabateko basakeria ikusi nuen Ruandan.

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I saw deaths by thousands per day.

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Milaka hildako ikusi nituen egunero.

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I lost my faith in our species.

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Gure espeziearenganako fedea galdu nuen.

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I didn't believe that it was possible for us to live any longer,

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Ez nuen uste bizirik jarraitu ahal genuenik

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and I started to be attacked by my own Staphylococcus.

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eta neure estafilokoko propioak eraso egin zidan.

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I started to have infection everywhere.

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Gorputz guztian infekzioa izaten hasi nintzen.

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When I made love with my wife, I had no sperm that came out of me;

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Emaztearekin amodioa egitean,
ez zen niregandik hazirik ateratzen.

05:39

I had blood.

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Odola ateratzen zen.

05:42

I went to see a friend's doctor in Paris,

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Lagun baten medikua ikustera
joan nintzen Parisera.

05:45

told him that I was completely sick.

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Guztiz gaixotuta nengoela esan nion.

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He made a long examination, and told me, "Sebastian,

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Luze aztertu ninduen
eta hau esan zidan: "Sebastian,

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you are not sick, your prostate is perfect.

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zu ez zaude gaixo,
zure prostata ezin hobe dago.

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What happened is, you saw so many deaths that you are dying.

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Gertatzen dena da horrenbeste heriotza ikusita,
zu zeu ere hiltzen ari zarela.

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You must stop. Stop.

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Gelditu egin behar duzu. Gelditu.

06:01

You must stop because on the contrary, you will be dead."

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Gelditu behar duzu, bestela hil egingo zara".

06:06

And I made the decision to stop.

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Gelditzeko erabakia hartu nuen.

Oso haserre nengoen argazkigintzarekin,
mundu guztiarekin,

06:09

I was really upset with photography,

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with everything in the world,

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and I made the decision to go back to where I was born.

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eta jaiotetxera bueltatzea erabaki nuen.

06:18

It was a big coincidence.

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Kointzidentzia handia izan zen.

06:19

It was the moment that my parents became very old.

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Nire gurasoak
zeharo zahartu ziren garaia izan zen.

06:23

I have seven sisters. I'm one of the only men in my family,

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Zazpi arreba ditut.
Ni naiz familiako gizon gutxienetako bat.

06:26

and they made together the decision

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Elkarrekin erabaki zuten
lur hau Léila eta bioi ematea.

06:28

to transfer this land to Léila and myself.

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Lur hau jaso genuenean,
lurra ni bezain hilda zegoen.

06:31

When we received this land, this land was as dead as I was.

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When I was a kid, it was more than 50 percent rainforest.

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Ume nintzenean,
%50 baino gehiago euri-oihana zen.

06:40

When we received the land,

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Lurra jaso genuenean,
%0,5 baino gutxiago zen euri-oihan,

06:41

it was less than half a percent rainforest,

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eskualde osoan zen antzera.

06:45

as in all my region.

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To build development, Brazilian development,

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Garapena sortzeko, Brasil garatzeko,

06:49

we destroyed a lot of our forest.

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gure oihanaren parte handia suntsitu genuen.

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As you did here in the United States,

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Hemen, Estatu Batuetan, egin duzuen bezala

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or you did in India, everywhere in this planet.

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edo Indian, planetaren edozein lekutan.

06:56

To build our development,

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Gure garapena sortzeko
kontraesan ikaragarrira heldu gara.

06:58

we come to a huge contradiction

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that we destroy around us everything.

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Gure inguru osoa suntsitzen dugu.

07:04

This farm that had thousands of head of cattle

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Landetxe honek, milaka behi zituenak,

07:08

had just a few hundreds,

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ehunka batzuk baino ez zuen

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and we didn't know how to deal with these.

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eta ez genekien hauekin zer egin.

07:12

And Léila came up with an incredible idea, a crazy idea.

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Léilari ideia sinestezina bururatu zitzaion,
ideia zoroa.

07:16

She said, why don't you put back the rainforest that was here before?

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Esan zuen: "zergatik ez duzu berrezartzen
hemen zegoen euri-oihana?

07:21

You say that you were born in paradise.

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Paradisuan jaio zinela esaten duzu.
Eraiki dezagun paradisua berriz".

07:22

Let's build the paradise again.

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And I went to see a good friend

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Lagun on bat ikustera joan nintzen
baso ingeniaria zena

07:28

that was engineering forests

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07:30

to prepare a project for us,

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guretzako proiektu bat prestatzeko

07:31

and we started. We started to plant, and this

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eta lanari ekin genion.
Landatzen hasi ginen.

07:34

first year we lost a lot of trees, second year less,

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Lehengo urtean zuhaitz asko galdu genituen,
bigarrenean gutxiago

07:38

and slowly, slowly this dead land started to be born again.

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eta pixkanaka lur mortu hura
berriz jaiotzen hasi zen.

07:43

We started to plant hundreds of thousands of trees,

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Ehunka milaka zuhaitz
landatzen hasi ginen,

07:46

only local species, only native species,

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bertako espezieak baino ez,
hango espezieak baino ez.

07:50

where we built an ecosystem identical to the one that was destroyed,

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Suntsitutako ekosistema bera sortu genuen.

07:53

and the life started to come back in an incredible way.

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Bizitza berriz agertu zen
modu sinestezinean.

07:58

It was necessary for us to transform our land

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Gure lurra parke nazional bihurtzea
ezinbestekoa zitzaigun.

08:00

into a national park.

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08:02

We transformed. We gave this land back to nature.

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Eraldaketa egin genuen.
Lurra naturari itzuli genion.

08:05

It became a national park.

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Parke nazionala egin zen.

08:06

We created an institution called Instituto Terra,

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"Instituto Terra" deritzon erakundea sortu genuen

08:10

and we built a big environmental project to raise money everywhere.

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eta edonon dirua lortzeko
ingurugiro-proiektu handi bat sortu genuen.

08:15

Here in Los Angeles, in the Bay Area in San Francisco,

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Hemen Los Angelesen,
San Frantziskoko badian,

Estatu Batuetan zerga-aitorpenean
kengarria egin zen.

08:18

it became tax deductible in the United States.

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08:21

We raised money in Spain, in Italy, a lot in Brazil.

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Dirua lortu genuen Espainian,
Italian, Brasilen asko.

08:24

We worked with a lot of companies in Brazil

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Brasileko enpresa ugariekin egin genuen lan
proiektuan dirua jarri zutenak, gobernuarekin.

08:26

that put money into this project, the government.

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08:28

And the life started to come, and I had a big wish

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Bizitza etortzen hasi zen,
eta nik desio handi bat nuen

08:33

to come back to photography, to photograph again.

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argazkigintzara bueltatzeko,
argazkiak egiteko.

08:36

And this time, my wish was not to photograph anymore

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Oraingoan nire nahia ez zen
erretratatzea soilik animalia bat,

08:39

just one animal that I had photographed all my life: us.

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nire bizitza osoan
erretratatu nuen bakarra: gu geu.

08:44

I wished to photograph the other animals,

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Beste animaliak erretratatu nahi nituen,
paisaiak erretratatu,

08:46

to photograph the landscapes,

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to photograph us, but us from the beginning,

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gu erretratatu, baina hasierako gu,
naturarekin orekan bizi ginen garaietakoa.

08:52

the time we lived in equilibrium with nature.

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08:54

And I went. I started in the beginning of 2004,

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Eta ekin nion.
2004 urtearen hasieran hasi nintzen

08:59

and I finished at the end of 2011.

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eta 2011ko amaieran bukatu.

09:02

We created an incredible amount of pictures,

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Irudi kopuru ikaragarria egin genuen.

09:05

and the result -- Lélia did the design of all my books,

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Léliak nire liburu eta erakusketa guztien
diseinua egin zuen.

09:08

the design of all my shows. She is the creator of the shows.

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Bera da erakusketen egilea.

09:11

And what we want with these pictures

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Irudi horiekin nahi genuena zen

09:14

is to create a discussion about what we have that is pristine on the planet

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eztabaida sortzea planeta honetan
jatorrizkoa denari buruz

09:20

and what we must hold on this planet

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eta planetan gorde behar dugunari buruz.

09:22

if we want to live, to have some equilibrium in our life.

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Bizi nahi badugu,
gure bizitzan orekaren bat izan nahi badugu.

09:26

And I wanted to see us

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Geure burua ikusi nahi nuen

09:28

when we used, yes, our instruments in stone.

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oraindik harrizko tresnak
erabiltzen genituenean.

09:34

We exist yet. I was last week

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Oraindik existitzen gara.
Aurreko astean,

09:36

at the Brazilian National Indian Foundation,

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Brasileko Indiar Fundazio Nazionalean
egon nintzen.

09:39

and only in the Amazon we have about 110 groups

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Amazonasen soilik 110 indiar talde inguru ditugu

09:43

of Indians that are not contacted yet.

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oraindik kontaktatuak izan ez direnak.

09:45

We must protect the forest in this sense.

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Zentzu honetan babestu behar dugu oihana.

09:48

And with these pictures, I hope that we can create

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Irudi hauekin,
espero dut sortu ahal izango dugula

informazioa, informazio sistema bat.

09:53

information, a system of information.

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We tried to do a new presentation of the planet,

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Planetaren aurkezpen berria egiten saiatu ginen.

Proiektu honetako irudi bakan batzuk
erakutsi nahi dizkizuet, mesedez.

09:59

and I want to show you now just a few pictures

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of this project, please.

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Well, this — (Applause) —

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Honen... (Txaloak)

12:01

Thank you. Thank you very much.

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Eskerrik asko. Eskerrak benetan.

Honen alde borrokatu behar gara gogor
orain dagoen eran mantentzeko.

12:09

This is what we must fight hard

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12:12

to hold like it is now.

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Baina bada beste alde bat
denen artean berreraiki behar duguna,

12:14

But there is another part that we must together rebuild,

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12:18

to build our societies, our modern family of societies,

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gure gizartea,
gure gizarteen familia modernoa.

12:22

we are at a point where we cannot go back.

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Gauden momentu honetan
ezin dugu atzera egin.

12:24

But we create an incredible contradiction.

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Baina kontraesan ikaragarria sortzen dugu.

12:27

To build all this, we destroy a lot.

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Hau dena eraikitzeko, asko suntsitzen dugu.

12:29

Our forest in Brazil, that antique forest

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Brasileko gure oihana,
antzinako oihan hura,

12:31

that was the size of California,

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Kaliforniaren tamainakoa zena,

12:34

is destroyed today 93 percent.

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gaur %93an desagertu egin da.

12:37

Here, on the West Coast, you've destroyed your forest.

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Hemen, mendebaldeko kostaldean,
zuek zuen oihana suntsitu duzue.

12:40

Around here, no? The redwood forests are gone.

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Hemen inguruan,
sekuoia oihanak galdu egin dira.

12:43

Gone very fast, disappeared.

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Arin galdu, desagertu.

12:45

Coming the other day from Atlanta, here, two days ago,

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Orain dela egun bi,
Atlantatik hona nentorrela,

12:47

I was flying over deserts

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basamortuen gainean hegaldatu nintzen,
guk geure eskuekin sortutakoak.

12:49

that we made, we provoked with our own hands.

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India has no more trees. Spain has no more trees.

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Indiak ez du zuhaitz gehiagorik,
Espainiak ere ez.

12:55

And we must rebuild these forests.

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Baso hauek berregin behar ditugu.

12:58

That is the essence of our life, these forests.

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Beraiek dira gure bizitzaren bihotza.
Arnasa hartu behar dugu.

13:02

We need to breathe. The only factory

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Fabrika bakarra CO2a
oxigeno bihur dezakeena basoa da.

13:06

capable to transform CO2 into oxygen,

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are the forests.

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The only machine capable to capture the carbon

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Sortzen dugun karbonoa harrapatzeko gai den
makina bakarra, etengabe,

13:16

that we are producing, always,

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even if we reduce them, everything that we do, we produce CO2,

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gutxitzen badugu ere,
edozer egitean CO2 sortzen dugu,

13:23

are the trees.

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zuhaitzak dira.

13:24

I put the question -- three or four weeks ago,

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Zera galdetzen dut.
Orain dela hiruzpalau aste,

13:29

we saw in the newspapers

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egunkarietan ikusi genuen
Norvegian milioika arrain hil direla.

13:30

millions of fish that die in Norway.

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A lack of oxygen in the water.

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Uretan oxigeno falta.

Neure buruari galdetzen diot,
noizbait

13:36

I put to myself the question, if for a moment,

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we will not lack oxygen for all animal species,

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ia animalia espezie guztientzako
oxigenoa faltako zaigun,

13:43

ours included -- that would be very complicated for us.

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gurea barne,
oso zaila litzateke guretzako.

13:46

For the water system, the trees are essential.

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Ur sistemarentzako,
zuhaitzak funtsezkoak dira.

13:50

I'll give you a small example that you'll understand very easily.

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Adibide txiki bat emango dizuet,
erraz ulertuko duzuena.

13:54

You happy people that have a lot of hair on your head,

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Zuek jende zoriontsuok,
burua ilez beterik duzuenok,

13:58

if you take a shower, it takes you

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dutxa hartzen baduzue, bi edo hiru ordu
behar izango dituzue ilea lehortzeko

14:01

two or three hours to dry your hair

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if you don't use a dryer machine.

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lehorgailua erabiltzen ez baduzue.

14:07

Me, one minute, it's dry. The same with the trees.

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Nirea minutu baten lehor dago.
Antzerakoa da zuhaitzekin.

14:12

The trees are the hair of our planet.

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Zuhaitzak planetaren ilea dira.

14:14

When you have rain in a place that has no trees,

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Euria jausten bada
zuhaitzik ez dagoen lekuan,

14:18

in just a few minutes, the water arrives in the stream,

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minutu gutxi barru,
ura ibaira heltzen da,

14:22

brings soil, destroying our water source,

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lurra darama, ur iturburua suntsitzen du,
ibaiak suntsitzen ditu,

14:24

destroying the rivers,

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ez dago hezetasuna non atxikitu.

14:26

and no humidity to retain.

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When you have trees, the root system holds the water.

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Zuhaitzak dituzunean,
sustrai sistemak ura atxikitzen du.

14:32

All the branches of the trees, the leaves that come down

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Zuhaitzen adar guztiek, jausitako hostoek
gune heze bat sortzen dute.

14:35

create a humid area,

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Urak hilabeteak behar ditu
ibaietara heltzeko

14:37

and they take months and months under the water, go to the rivers,

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and maintain our source, maintain our rivers.

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eta iturburuak mantentzen ditu,
gure ibaiak.

14:45

This is the most important thing,

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Hauxe da gauza garrantzitsuena

14:47

when we imagine that we need water for every activity in life.

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bizitzako edozein ekintzarako
ura behar dugula ikusten dugunean.

14:51

I want to show you now, to finish,

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Amaitzeko, irudi batzuk
erakutsi nahi dizkizuet,

14:53

just a few pictures that for me

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niretzako zentzu horretan
oso garrantzitsuak direnak.

14:56

are very important in that direction.

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14:59

You remember that I told you,

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Esan dizuet

15:01

when I received the farm from my parents

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nire gurasoengandik
landetxea jaso nuenean

15:03

that was my paradise, that was the farm.

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hura nire paradisua zela,
hori zen landetxea.

15:06

Land completely destroyed, the erosion there, the land had dried.

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Lurra guztiz akabatua, erosioa,
lurra lehortu egin zen.

15:11

But you can see in this picture,

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Baina irudi honetan ikus dezakezue
hezkuntza gunea eraikitzen hasiak ginela

15:14

we were starting to construct an educational center

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that became quite a large environmental center in Brazil.

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Brasilen ingurumen-zentro
nahiko handia bihurtu dena.

15:23

But you see a lot of small spots in this picture.

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Irudi honetan puntu txiki asko ikusten dituzue.

15:27

In each point of those spots, we had planted a tree.

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Puntu bakoitzaren lekuan
zuhaitz bat landatua genuen.

15:31

There are thousands of trees.

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Milaka zuhaitz dago.

15:32

Now I'll show you the pictures made exactly in the same point

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Hona hemen orain dela bi hilabete
leku berean egindako argazkia.

15:36

two months ago.

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(Txaloak)

15:39

(Applause)

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2,5 milioi zuhaitz
landatu behar izan genituen,

15:48

I told you in the beginning that it was necessary

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for us to plant about 2.5 million trees

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200 espezie desberdinetakoak,
ekosistema hau berregiteko.

15:55

of about 200 different species

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in order to rebuild the ecosystem.

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Azken irudia erakutsiko dizuet.

16:01

And I'll show you the last picture.

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We are with two million trees in the ground now.

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Orain lurretan bi milioi zuhaitz ditugu.

16:06

We are doing the sequestration

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Zuhaitz hauen bidez
100.000 tona karbono ari gara harrapatzen.

16:08

of about 100,000 tons of carbon with these trees.

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Lagunok, erraza da egiten.
Guk lortu genuen, ezta?

16:12

My friends, it's very easy to do. We did it, no?

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16:17

By an accident that happened to me,

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Gertatu zitzaidan istripua zela eta

16:19

we went back, we built an ecosystem.

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atzera joan ginen,
ekosistema bat berregin genuen.

16:23

We here inside the room,

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Gela honetan gaudenok

16:25

I believe that we have the same concern,

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uste dut kezka bera daukagula,

16:29

and the model that we created in Brazil,

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eta Brasilen sortu genuen eredua
hona ekar dezakegu.

16:31

we can transplant it here.

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Munduan edozein lekutan gauza dezakegu.

16:33

We can apply it everywhere around the world, no?

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And I believe that we can do it together.

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Eta elkarrekin egin dezakegula uste dut.

16:39

Thank you very much.

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Eskerrik asko.

16:40

(Applause)

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Translated by Begoña Laka
Reviewed by Ion Zubizarreta

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Sebastião Salgado - Photojournalist
Sebastião Salgado captures the dignity of the dispossessed through large-scale, long-term projects.

Why you should listen

A gold miner in Serra Pelada, Brazil; a Siberian Nenet tribe that lives in -35°C temperatures; a Namibian gemsbok antelope. These are just a few of the subjects from Sebastião Salgado’s immense collection of work devoted to the world’s most dispossessed and unknown.

Brazilian-born Salgado, who shoots only using Kodak film, is known for his incredibly long-term projects, which require extensive travel and extreme lifestyle changes. Workers took seven years to complete and contained images of manual laborers from 26 countries, while Migrations took six years in 43 different countries on all seven continents. Most recently Salgado completed Genesis, an ambitious eight-year project that spanned 30 trips to the world’s most pristine territories, land untouched by technology and modern life. Among Salgado’s many travels for Genesis was a two-month hike through Ethiopia, spanning 500 miles with 18 pack donkeys and their riders. In the words of Brett Abbott, a Getty Museum curator, Salgado’s approach can only be described as “epic.”

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