“People used to have a long-term vision of the forest, today they are fixated on the here and now… ”
JAN BONI
Forest engineer Neuchâtel, NE
“What happens when the biosphere no longer stores the 25% of CO2 that we release into the atmosphere?”
OKSANA TARASOVA
Senior scientific officer WMO
“The importance of forests is much greater than anything we have calculated so far…”.
GREGORY TUTTON
Consultant WMO
“ We don’t work for our children, but for our great-grandchildren, great-granddaughters… ”
FRÉDÉRIC WYSS
Forest engineer , Boudry, NE
“Man destroys, destroys, destroys. Then nature rebels and man asks himself: Why?
ROSANA PUYANAWA
Ambassador of Puyanawas people , Brasil
“Our satellites have observed real surprises about how the biosphere interacts with the atmosphere. Nobody wanted to believe us… ”
KEN JUCKS
Head of NASA’s Upper Atmospheric Research Program (UARP)
“Our Swiss institutions are investing in projects that are gradually destroying the Amazon”.
FABIEN FIVAZ
National Concelor
„The world is eating Amazone!”
LUCIANA GATTI
Searcher Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (BNISR)
“As long as we think in terms of the values of the capitalist system, that will not be enough”
JULIA BÜSSER
representatives for the Association for Threatened Peoples
“For me, the fundamental question today is the ability of soils to store carbon.”
JEAN-MICHEL GOBAT
Biologist, co-Author “The living soil”
“The more diversity we have, the better we can bounce back and adapt”.
JEAN-NOÉ MORIER GENOUD
Farmer Bio Trois-Rods, Boudry, NE
“You have to change consciousness. But will I be able to solve the problem alone? Or do we all have to work together?”
PUWE PUYANAWA
Ambassador of the Puyanawa-people, Brasil
“By building an intimate relationship with the forest, children will feel the desire to protect it.”
MYRIAM FACCHINETTI
Teacher practicing the Forest School
Valangin, NE