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 The Alangan forest people on the Philippine island of Mindoro are frightened. The sound of test drilling can be heard several places in the jungle they are dependent on. The land they have inherited from their ancestors is threatened by Norwegian mining operations. They fear that the forest god Kapwambulod will be disturbed and turn against them.
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 The few nomadic forest tribes left on the planet struggle to protect their traditional way of life in balance with nature and their right to roam in the forests they depend on. For the Raute people of Nepal the struggle is almost lost.
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 – My only wish for the future is that my grandchildren will not suffer as we do, tea estate worker Sivanthalingam Vairai says.
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 A large landscape conservation initiative of WWF US is supposed to create optimal conditions for elephants, big cats and rhinoceros in the lowlands of Nepal. But some fear that it will be on the expense of millions of poor people living in the area.
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 The Gorau of the Nepalese Tharu-people can do medical wonders with their traditional knowledge of several hundred plants. But both their knowledge and the nature they depend on are under threat, both locally and from the far outside.
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 A tar covered wooden hull breaks the waves, as a sea eagle circles above the canvas. A handful of youngsters have turned back time hundred years.
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The last two decades the Kichwa people of Sarayaku have been fighting to keep oil companies out of the land of their ancestors. They say they are fighting for Mother Earth and their freedom. For the oil giants ENI and ConocoPhillips it is the law of the jungle that rule.