Rapper Marteria on Sunday (November 20) released a 45-minute documentary called The Amazon Job – The Forest Is Not Enough, which he co-authored with the organization “Plants for the Future” filmed in Peru. All proceeds go to this organization. Her goal is to buy a few hectares of land in the rainforest and save animals like the poison dart frog. The documentary plus Marteria’s new song “Wald” and a question and answer session was presented on November 17th at the Volkstheater Rostock.
“My friends from Plant for Future regularly travel to Amazonia to protect forest areas from deforestation. I wanted to see all of this in person, to learn how I can make a contribution myself. And then I wanted to find the little frog that only lives in this part of the world and wears the colors of my club,” Materia begins the introduction to the documentary. When he says his club, he means FC Hansa Rostock, which, like the poison dart frog or poison dart frog, can be recognized by the colors red and blue. Therefore, the rapper baptizes the frog “Hansa Frog”.
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In March of this year, they started their journey without having much of a clue, as Marteria admits: “We didn’t really have a clue from the start. We’re not in on this at all. In terms of environmental protection, yes, but not as intensively. We are not biologists.” You notice that right from the start, because the people of Rostock buy two live turtles at a market to release them back into the wild. Shortly thereafter, Marteria says: “I don’t know if that was right, but it was important for us that we did it.”
The rapper and “Plant for Future” is about “doing good and honest nature conservation”. The organization is committed to “protecting existing forests” and “creating new forests.” Marteria explains in an interview with the NDR: “If you manage to protect something very, very small – something as big as a fingernail – then you can also protect big things.”