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1 For it is the native people 2 who have lived here for generations, 3 that are ultimately Manu's best protectors. 4 It is they, and not outsiders, 5 that hold the key to Manu's future. 6 For Glenn's goodbye, 7 Merino and Maura are throwing a masato festival tomorrow night. 8 The preparations will take two days. 9 "I really admire the Machiguenga for their lifestyle. 10 For hundred thousand years 11 human beings have lived in small societies much like this one 12 and I think that this is just the way 13 human beings were meant to live. 14 These people are absolutely free." 15 "They don't owe anyone any money. 16 No one tells them when to wake up or when to go to sleep. 17 They choose their own hours 18 and they choose how much they want to work. 19 And there's no such a thing as homelessness. 20 There's no crime. 21 They have very strong family ties. 22 People are basically happy." 23 "Whenever I leave I always say 'well, I'm going now.' 24 And I don't think 25 they have Quite a conception of where it is that I'm going 26 because for them the United States and Europe 27 is just a far-off, distant place." 28 The rainforest of Manu National Park 29 has existed peacefully on this planet 30 for tens of thousands of years. 31 And yet in the last century 32 over half of the world's rainforests have been destroyed. 33 Ironically, 34 the West has had to choose between 35 either totally deforesting an area 36 or else setting it aside as a "virgin" park. 37 Yet native Indians have been living here sustainably 38 for thousands of years. 39 We have much to learn from them before it is too late. 40 For it is our generation 41 that will decide the fate of these forests 42 and whether the birth rights of its animals and people 43 have come to an end 44 or will endure. 45 When a Machiguenga shaman dies his soul becomes immortal, 46 and travels through the forest and up into the sky 47 where the souls of the Machiguenga shaman 48 continue to watch over us to this day.